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

[quattro + 5 or 8 = fun]

True...but can you imagine what a Volvo on steroids would be like!  There
are a few total stockers out there.  My sister drives a completely original
1992 S4.  135K miles on it.  Not one mod.

Sorry for the OT post.


Shayne


Bay Area, CA
Eastern WA State


PARTING:  1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE 4.5
PARTING:  1986 Audi 4000 CS quattro


> 
> Hmm.  Most cars I know with AAN motors ARE on Steroids ;-)
> 

> 
> 
>> Kind of an unholy comment, but go drive a turbo 5 cylinder Volvo AWD.  Any
>> model.  I have driven the V50 and V70R.  The V70R reminds me of an AAN on
>> steroids.  The V50 (S40 in sedan form) is was similar with less power and
>> weight.  I really liked the cars.  However my wife just bought a 2005.5 A4
>> 2.0T so no new cars for a while.

>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>