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that you should consider the A8. My brother had his tranny go $6.5K a few 
other things $2-3K per visit to the dealer. The thing with the A8 is you 
have to be very careful to trust it to others, or other parts because the 
cost of downtime etc.  It's a different league altogether.

V8's are gas-aholics. Our '06 Range Rover HSE gets better mileage to put 
things in perspective.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave C" <dconner at gmail.com>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:39 AM
Subject: [V8] V8 vs A8


> Howdy Q-heads,
>
> My fleet of Audi's consists of two 1987 type 44's.  I bought one of them 
> in
> 1992, and have been driving and maintaining these things for a very long
> time, doing all my own maintenance and know them inside and out.  But they
> are getting on in years and I find myself considering replacement with
> something newer.  The question is "how much newer?"
>
> I'm nervous about not understanding how a car works and maybe being unable
> to repair it when things go wrong, etc.  I recently drove a 2007 A8 for 
> the
> first time and was in awe of the complexity of the cockpit with so many
> electronic gizzies.  I've never driven a V8, or even sat in one for that
> matter, but I'm aware of the loyal following they have.
>
> It looks like I could buy a first generation A8 (D2) for somewhere in the
> neighborhood of $10K but it would be a ten year old car with 100K miles on
> it, so I would need to anticipate repairs from the start.  I don't want to
> spend a whole lot more than $10 K on a car, but could go higher if I felt 
> it
> was worth it.
>
> I'd actually like to have an avant, but choices are limited.  A 2002-3 S6
> avant would be very nice :-)  Maybe I should consider an A6 avant.
>
> Considering that I like to keep my cars for a long time and do my own
> maintenance, would I be better off with the more familiar technology of 
> the
> V8 or an URS4/6?  I think there would be a benefit to getting something 
> ten
> years newer than that (A8) but it would still be a 10 year old car. 
> Another
> upside re: the A8 is that there are a >lot< more of them available to 
> choose
> from.  Most of the V8's and URS4's are pretty beat by now... clean
> low-mileage examples are quite scarce.
>
> So ...  should look for a clean V8 or URS4?
>
> Or should I look at something much newer and try to adapt to 21st century
> automotive technology?
>
> Decisions, decisions.
> - -
> David Conner
> Columbus, OH
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