lip
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Well, all this happend very sudden: Until a few days ago my plan was to happily drive the Audi 4.2 A6 into the ground until the gearbox/transmission would go out with a big bang or until the MFK (swiss version of MOT) would run out in early 2017. But to be ready for that moment I already went on Autoscout regularly to look out for some other barges with some power, automatic, AWD, new MOT, fresh off service and (most important) in wagon form.
Last Thursday I found an offer (only one day old) for the Audi S6 this post is all about. "Hm, something like this will be the perfect replacement example for the A6 when it goes boom someday", I tought.
But only the next day I said to myself: "Why wait? You want an Audi S6. Get that S6". And so I simply called the garage to ask if they would consider to trade in my A6. "No problem", was the answer. Perfect. Let's do this. And so here we are:
2000 Audi S6 quattro, V8, 340hp, 420nm, 212'000km
Pro:
More pics:
The key scratch. Only visible up close and in certain light, and only on the hood, on all the other panels it has has been painted over.
Come on, I know that 300 is here for bragging but it makes the dial stupidly hard to read during glances at normal day speeds:
You know by now I bought this car because it has more power than the A6 and mostly because it's an Avant... but feck all that, because just after one day of ownership the all defining features are now these hilarious things:
Of course:
Oh and btw: You have to turn your volume full up because the dashcam mic is rubbish, but I hope you will get the gist anyway by that massive echo at 0:06 why the word "Barking" is in the thread title. :lol:
Outlook:
As usual the goal is to drive this for about two years and 70'000km... But let's not kidd ourselfs, as the ownership of the A6 has shown, realistically it will be about a year...
Last Thursday I found an offer (only one day old) for the Audi S6 this post is all about. "Hm, something like this will be the perfect replacement example for the A6 when it goes boom someday", I tought.
But only the next day I said to myself: "Why wait? You want an Audi S6. Get that S6". And so I simply called the garage to ask if they would consider to trade in my A6. "No problem", was the answer. Perfect. Let's do this. And so here we are:
2000 Audi S6 quattro, V8, 340hp, 420nm, 212'000km
Pro:
- Fresh off inspection and service. Immaculate service history. New belt went in two months ago.
- Estate. Wagon. Avant. Whatever you call it, it's a large space back there.
- Much more agressive at the gears as the A6, no "sport mode" necessary here.
- Sportec exhaust system. Granted it's very loud, but hey... that's why it's so awesome!
- Still love me a sunroof
- Snug sport seats.
- A rear wiper. Yes I know, a mundane piece, but I was missing that badly on the predecessor.
- Save the planet, people! I can't because I drive an old Audi that does about 13L+/100km...
- The car got keyed in one big loop ever every panel. But you have to get close to actually see it because most of it has been painted over with the original color. Anyway that made the car cheap to trade and I don't care much about cosmetics, but people will probably wrongly assume I've been mean to some looser. Thehe.
- A few rust bubbles below the glass on the rear hatch, quite prominent. Again, don't care much, and if I do someday: Bring out the black duct tape!
- Grey isn't the most beautiful leather color, also there is no seat position memory. Meh.
- Car is limited to 250km/h but the speedo goes to 300. This makes the more reality-oriented left side of the dial stupidly cramped.
- The same dorky stone-age radio/nav unit as in the A6. Granted a Tom-Tom navigation CD from 2013 is in there, so at least it's usable as a backup.
- Classic faulty Audi centre display. Doesn't bother me. Still readable.
- Headlamps alignment warning came up during the test drive. This suprised the salesman. Bad timing there, thehe. = Another 100.- down with the price.
- Not a fan of badges in general.
- The car is quite hard on the road (atleast in comparison with the soft A6) and you can feel every pebble. On the other hand it's much more confident in the corners.
More pics:
The key scratch. Only visible up close and in certain light, and only on the hood, on all the other panels it has has been painted over.
Come on, I know that 300 is here for bragging but it makes the dial stupidly hard to read during glances at normal day speeds:
You know by now I bought this car because it has more power than the A6 and mostly because it's an Avant... but feck all that, because just after one day of ownership the all defining features are now these hilarious things:
Of course:
Oh and btw: You have to turn your volume full up because the dashcam mic is rubbish, but I hope you will get the gist anyway by that massive echo at 0:06 why the word "Barking" is in the thread title. :lol:
Outlook:
As usual the goal is to drive this for about two years and 70'000km... But let's not kidd ourselfs, as the ownership of the A6 has shown, realistically it will be about a year...
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That thing is maybe still size of a shopper hatchback, but it sounds properly Barrrrrrrrging 