[V8] What's next: the final demise of the V8.

[Roger M. Woodbury]

Could be, and yes, I am always thinking about the "next" car.  Unhappily,
there really isn't anything that I want, other than another V8, of course.

But I am not sure that I would want an A6 into which I had shoehorned a V8.
It IS an attractive idea of course, but it wouldn't be a REAL V8, just
something that was sort of "cobbed up".  My mechanic has a very nice A6 that
he owns outright that could be a very good car for the purpose, but I am not
sure that that is what I would like to  do....it just won't LOOK like a V8.

Hmmmmm. Maybe I'll just have to have a V8 AND a 20-valve Avant.  If I did,
under the worst case scenario, the total cost of the two cars would be less
than a new Camry.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean at mindspring.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 1:25 PM
To: Roger M. Woodbury
Cc: v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] What's next: the final demise of the V8.

Roger M. Woodbury wrote:
 > Now that gas prices have retreated from the shadow of
 > $3 per gallon, and we can breathe again, I have begun
 > to think about the next car.

Hah!  Like many of us, you are alway thinking about the
next car, regardless of the price of gas. :)

I know you pay a mechanic to do your dirty work, so this
might be cost prohibitive, but I'd drop a 4.2L V8 into
an early A6 Avant -- the V8 for power, the wagon for
utility, the combo for stealth. I might also opt for a
5-speed manual. But since you like your 20V Avant, a
95.5 S Avant would fit the bill with no engine-swap
headaches.

--
Kent McLean
'94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke