[V8] $500 V8 For Sale

[Ed Kellock]

An interesting viewpoint.  I think you're musings are on the mark.

I rarely see other V8's on the road here.  I did yesterday.  It was pearl
with some sort of dark-finished aftermarket wheels.  It was dusk so the
lights were on and it was moving.  Sure looked good.  I recognized it right
away, though I didn't believe myself at first.  I was out walking, it was
coming toward me, and I looked right at it and followed it all the way past,
wondering if the driver even noticed or had any real concept of what it is
he/she was driving.  You see, I live near a college and it could very well
have been the car that parents sent student off to school in, with the
concession of fancy wheels the only thing saving them from buying a new or
newer BMW, Subaru, or some small SUV.

I like to think it was an enthusiast though.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Roger Woodbury
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:01 AM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: [V8] $500 V8 For Sale
> 
> 
> Well, folks, I am thinking more and more that we are at the 
> end of this trail.  The newest V8 is 15 years old.  The cost 
> of general maintenance on these cars is beginning to be 
> "legendary", and even the person who sees one that is 
> perfect, and cheap, will likely ask someone about the car, 
> and will be told that they are terribly expensive, 
> unreliable, prone to sudden accidental acceleration, and all 
> sorts of other ignorant opinions.  Unless the person speaks 
> with one of us poor fools, of course.
> 
> The truth is that maintenance is not much of an issue, if the 
> car is maintained.  Most people don't want to do that. Most 
> people don't want to take it to an independent mechanic, 
> don't know an independent mechanic who will work on these 
> cars or who knows anything about these cars, or will take the 
> time to try to find one.  The Audi dealers generally know 
> about as much about these cars as they do about a Horsch, so 
> franchised dealers are only good places to hear them ask, 
> "you have a what?".
> 
> Indeed, some parts seem to be getting a bit difficult to 
> source, but not impossible.  Unlike some of the hoses on the 
> 200 20V Turbo that are no longer available, as far as I know 
> everything on the V8 is still supported by Audi.  At a price: 
>  UFO calipers are more than $550 each!  Ouch!  (After market 
> calipers do not exist.  I have been almost everywhere on line 
> to ask, and NO ONE advertising them HAS them.).
> 
> The best of the cars available aren't selling for more than 
> three grand, so I would have to say that the value of these 
> cars has ended in the market.
> 
> So what we have here is a now, very old, very powerful 
> vehicle that nobody except for a few really want.  While this 
> can be a true, enthusiast's car, as a daily driver I wonder 
> how much longer critical parts will be supported by Audi.  
> Maybe there is some sort of regulation that mandates this? 
> Whatever it is, I suspect that by the time that the newest of 
> these cars passes its twentieth anniversary, there will be 
> only us left who know what they are.
> 
> Roger
> 
> (About to start to accumulate parts cars....)
> 
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