Contemplating an RS6
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Why are you so hung up on 4WD? The right tyres and it doesnt matter how many wheels are driven.
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I live next to the Alps, I drive up and down them in all manners of weather, from ice to snow drifts. RWD wouldn't cut those.
[TW]Fox;21309669 said:RS4, E55 AMG, CLS55 AMG, E60 M5 (Though this is perhaps pushing it because its no stranger to completley ridiculous costs itself), 996 Porsche 911, etc. Even more expensive cars make it onto the radar because not spending £10,000 a year fixing broken stuff can be used to just buy a more expensive car in the first place
What about when those cars throw up similar bills? They're all going to be outside of the range of manufacturer warranty and the 3rd party warranties don't seem to be worth the paper they're written on.
Personally speaking, the fact the initial cost to buy was so low has helped justify the expense. The car which is nearly perfect now 'only' owes me £16.5k. There's no finance so I don't need to factor interest into my running costs. All I have to pay are fuel costs, consumables and any potential future repairs. It's not as outrageous as you might think when you consider the depreciation on a newer car with similar performance.
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But the S6 is in the realms cost wise of the B7 RS4 and I mush prefer the look of that. I'm not a big fan of the C6 shape. Hence asking about whether anyone knew of the general maintenance costs of the B7s.
The ability to drive around in snow primarily comes from your choice of tyres. This is why numerous people in alpine regions do not drive 4wd vehicles. 4wd helps but with correct snow biased tyres is a help rather than a requirement.
If you use search I think I posted up about it previously, but they are not a cheap car to run just like the RS6. Mine costs more to run than my GT3, so you can see the sort of relms they are in.
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[TW]Fox;21311209 said:
Indeed and why all rally cars are RWD and not 4WD as there is no difference...
Even in rain 4WD is a huge advantage over RWD let alone snow, My mates S4 that he hated to death was still massively quicker from a-b in nearly every given situation than his CSL
Rally cars used to be RWD until they realised they could go faster if they were 4WD.
But I'm assuming the OP isn't after 4wd so he can do 100mph, sideways, around a snow covered mountain so this isn't quite the convincing argument you think it is. You dont drive in a spirited fashion on public roads packed with snow in any car whether it has 2, 4 or a billion wheel drive.
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No but the basis of that going faster due to being 4WD is there is more grip!
4WD gives more grip in all weather conditions and seeing as the OP lives in a place that warrants having a car with 4wd it its a pretty logical thing to want in a car
4WD gives more grip in all weather conditions and seeing as the OP lives in a place that warrants having a car with 4wd it its a pretty logical thing to want in a car
And it would be great if having it didn't narrow his list of potential cars down to a single ruinously expensive to run example.
If he had more modest performance ambitions there are sufficient 4wd options that it probably isn't a bad idea to insist on it. But he doesn't, so IMHO it is.
A set of top notch winter/snow tyres will provide him with the traction he needs to get around. If this wasn't the case then nobody who lives in Alpine regions would have anything that wasn't 4wd which obviously isnt the case, is it?
4wd does not give you more grip. On many cars it actually reduces the max g that the car can produce as with the fronts having to transmit some of the tractive forces the ability to carry the cornering load is reduced and so the car has a propensity to understeer sooner than a RWD car.
What the 4wd system provides is traction. The car can exit a corner somewhat faster.
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Sorry to dig this up but what did the OP go for in the end? I have a C5 RS6 that I bought in November and am in to her for well over £25k (including buying her)already but mostly by choice and I have no plans of getting rid of her anytime soon!
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Despite the name of this one, all my cars have been female 