Audi owners in here!

[TW]Fox;25816548 said:
It's pretty much the same as the S3. The S3 is the same car with a bit more power and a slightly different bodykit (Though it doesnt look much different to an S-Line A3).

I can totally see why you'd pick an S3 over an A3 but if you 'couldnt be any less interested' in a 2.0T A3 then best you dont waste any money on an S3 because it's... a 2.0T A3.

S3 v A3 2.0T isnt like comparing an RS4 with an A4 1.9 TDI 130...
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I get the point and agree to an extent - I guess it's just personal preference really. I like the S3 as an all round package (though to be fair I haven't driven one for about 2.5/3 years), think the A3 is fine but when you move away from the base power the S3 has and back into Golf Gti levels I'd rather have one of the sister cars.

Xez said:
The S3 will hold it's value better but they aren't that different. The S3 is as you say a good all round car apart from a value perspective!
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This is it really, I'm really just having a look at a few cars at the moment to decide what to do and have always liked the 8P S3 - but i'm not up for spending the money it looks like I'd need to on one.
 
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I'd prefer an edition 30 to the A3 2.0t as an example. Inside is ok (though obviously and intentionally not quite as nice), the slight power hike will be welcome and I also suspect it'd hold its value slightly better (though i'm unlikely to own it too long anyway). I also prefer the looks of the 5 door golf to a 5 door A3 (though I'd potentially still buy a 3). If I look at standard Gti's I could spend a little bit less on one of the same age as the A3 (it seems my money is just about getting you the 2008ish facelift which command a bit of a premium) or spend the full lot on a newer example that I prefer the looks of outside anyway. There also seem to be more of the Gti's around to pick from

Take the VRS as another alternative, the money buys a car which is a little bit newer, same power as the A3, but starts to really sacrifice on interior. I want to look at one with full leather though as the dash doesn't particularly offend me, more the seats.

Maybe I need to actually go and see a 5 door 2.0T A3, it's not like any of this is particularly serious at the moment anyway. I could get in one (or any of the others i've mentioned above), drive it and decide within 30 seconds that I wouldn't be willing to pay the extra money which would pretty much write off any of the vag cars. I'd also like to find a well specced, manual e91 330 to have a poke around but there aren't many about and my short lived experience of the e9x with a 318d was not a pleasant one.
 
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I looked at buying an 8p2 S3 when I bought my 2.0tfsi sportback. I decided that it was one of those cars where you only use the performance 1/8th of the time, and other than having more power it didn't really have any advantages.

The 4wd isn't the best system in the world, the engine is the same except for turbo etc which can be swapped over and mapped in, I didn't like the look of 5 door S3's, not really a fan of the badges plastered all over the car either. The interior is the same, and for my budget I could get an s-tronic a3 or just a manual s3.
 
floatindolphin said:
Hi,

I'm looking into getting a 06 A4 Avant FSI 2.0T S-line Quattro for just under £10K
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You would need to be bonkers to spend £10k on one of those. It's an absolutely ancient car, it was released more than 13 years ago. It is an E46 generation car and you wouldn't pay £10k for an E46 so why pay it for an A4?

It is also the same car as the Seat Exeo (literally the same car, they changed the badges and the front/rear bumpers but its otherwise the A4). Has the better more modern interior from the A4 cabrio, too. It's also available with that same 2.0TFSI engine. FWD only, rather than quattro, but it'd be half the age for your budget.
 
[TW]Fox;25826539 said:
You would need to be bonkers to spend £10k on one of those. It's an absolutely ancient car, it was released more than 13 years ago. It is an E46 generation car and you wouldn't pay £10k for an E46 so why pay it for an A4?

It is also the same car as the Seat Exeo (literally the same car, they changed the badges and the front/rear bumpers but its otherwise the A4). Has the better more modern interior from the A4 cabrio, too. It's also available with that same 2.0TFSI engine. FWD only, rather than quattro, but it'd be half the age for your budget.
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ah oops, missed the last bit of your post :)

thanks for the info
 
Vita said:
Yet you had yours mapped and drove everywhere with a heavy foot?
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No, I bought it like that. I didn't know until I got it home and read the paperwork that it had those goodies. Even so a mapped a3 2.0t is not an a3 s3 is it?

I drive everywhere with a heavy foot, I don't mean to say I drive like a boy racer but I don't drive like a granny either.
 
so still looking for those rarer that rocking horse **** b8s in my price range that tickle my pickle.

starting to think of going back to getting a b7...then having loaddddssssss of cash to throw at it and do some mods :) seen one for £6k (already less than half the price of the b8 I was looking at that vanished....as usual lol) so got a healthy chunk left for insurance, private plate ;) tax, tune and mods :D (probably won't be much chunk left over if I had my way though)
 
86JR said:
No, I bought it like that. I didn't know until I got it home and read the paperwork that it had those goodies. Even so a mapped a3 2.0t is not an a3 s3 is it?

I drive everywhere with a heavy foot, I don't mean to say I drive like a boy racer but I don't drive like a granny either.
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So you didn't read the paperwork when you bought the car from SSC? Lol.

No it isn't, well the bodykit/wheels/turbo/4wd is the only difference. Not really much of a difference in my eyes.
 
Someone else can confirm but I didn't think the petrols got multitronic on a b7

Edit, no wait looks like the 2wd cars did, quattro's dont
 
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Thats just mental money to spend on a car like that. I don't get it personally. It's no different generationally from an E46 3 Series. A car thats much cheaper. As in half the price for a nice one. I'm not suggesting you buy one of those, this is the Audi thread, but I'm using it to highlight how poor they are value wise. £9k is lots of money for a 7-8 year old example of a car that came out 13 years ago.

Its not even a good spec! Rubbish reflector lenses not proper projectors and has aftermarket nav.

If you want to spend £9k on a 2.0TFSI Audi buy an A6, it's a generation newer than the A4 at this money.
 
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