[V8] V8 for ten grand? Yikes!

[Roger M. Woodbury]

I have been slabbering all over the place at the thought of a super low
mileage V8 for some reasonable amount of money.  There is one
now.maybe.they're asking ten grand.  

 

Wow!  

 

And, simply put in one word:  NO.  The car won't get ten grand.  It won't
get nine grand.  It won't get eight grand.  It won't get seven grand.

 

What will happen to it?  I think unless there is an Audi fool out there with
too much money in the cookie jar, nothing.  The car won't sell.  If it does,
it will sell for something in the vague vicinity of $6,000 at the very
outside.

 

It's a shame really.  It's a same because even at ten grand it is such a far
superior vehicle to anything else available new or old for twice the money
that it represents something that the vast majority of people never really
think about when they buy a car:  VALUE.

 

The cars are still repairable, and there are many high quality independent
mechanics with the knowledge to work on them properly.  Parts are still
available for the most part, and even where they are not.UFO calipers for
instance..even if the wheels, tires and brakes were completely retrofitted
to something else (just the dinky UFO replacement brakes that Audi used in
the early '90's), the cost of buying, maintaining and owning these cars is
still well lower than ANYthing else with anywhere near the overall
performance envelope of these cars.

 

This is why I hunted for a year to salve the aching burning feeling of being
without a V8 that set upon me after I sold my '93 V8.  And that is why I
cheerfully think of my V8 as arguably being the last car I may ever own.  

 

It is true that I am no longer planning on driving twenty or thirty miles
annually in my car.   But maintenance dollars are cheaper than interest
laden new car purchase or lease dollars, and the V8 is now a great VALUE,
even at ten grand.  At six grand it is a steal.

 

Roger