Opinions from us DRC experienced Audi fans.....

[Aronis]

So,

I have been contemplating getting a new Audi, trading M2 and RS6, and considering options..

1. RS5, loaded with the dynamic plus package, which comes with DRC and ceramic front brakes....would then probably have dealer swap it out for the regular suspensions when if fails in 12 months and swap out the brakes when they are worn down to less expensive ones. Loaded it's about $90k.

2. Wait on New S6 due next year, details to come, sedan, larger, probably will have 10 percent more power, etc.

3. Go for the gold, S8 plus, again details to come, probably be $110 or so. Getting "too high."

4. Skipping RS7, don't care for the style and the price gets too high for me.

Do you guys think Audi has gotten the DRC right now? I doubt it myself but know that now there are many aftermarket options......

Mike

[ttboost]

Buy a couple year old S8...Let someone else absorb the depreciation...probably find one with no miles, half the cost of new...

[Aronis]

I agree, that was also on the list......

Waiting to see what the new model offers and how it may help drop the price on the older ones.

Mike

[ttboost]

Prices almost always goes up on new cars, but not necessarily with new features...don't think you'll miss much by grabbing a 14-15 S8...

[DHall1]

As TT said

buy the 2yr old S8 and be done with it

15s are what? 65k

haha MMR on a 15 S8 is a whopping 52k....no brainer

I'm not giving Audi 90k for a RS5

I'm certainly not driving a new 90k car through a nasty winter

[ttboost]

Yep...working on a tune now, have catless DP's waiting in the garage...and it will eat the a$$ out of a new $130k S8 plus...and I have carbon and B&O...

[Bigglezworth]

Yep...working on a tune now, have catless DP's waiting in the garage...and it will eat the a$$ out of a new $130k S8 plus...and I have carbon and B&O...I've enjoyed B&O in my house for years since I first walked in to the B&O dealers store in San Francisco in the early 90's. I love the contemporary styling queues and the sound is pretty decent. The Art of Sound.

[Aronis]

Yep...working on a tune now, have catless DP's waiting in the garage...and it will eat the a$$ out of a new $130k S8 plus...and I have carbon and B&O...

Sounding better all the time!

CPO S8Plus sounds good.

Mike

[Aronis]

looking at listings....2015, 5200 miles, 90k....loaded...:)

Mike

[ttboost]

https://www.ebay.com/sch/Cars-Trucks/6001/i.html?_from=R40&_dcat=6001&_dmpt=US_Cars_Trucks&makeval=Audi&modelval=S8&Model%2520Year=2013%7C2014%7C2015%7C2016&_mtrvfc=1&_stpos=06238&_nkw=Audi%20S8

[Aronis]

https://www.ebay.com/sch/Cars-Trucks/6001/i.html?_from=R40&_dcat=6001&_dmpt=US_Cars_Trucks&makeval=Audi&modelval=S8&Model%2520Year=2013%7C2014%7C2015%7C2016&_mtrvfc=1&_stpos=06238&_nkw=Audi%20S8

Stop baiting me LOL....it's a shame they are so far from me so I can't go test drive and drool. :) keeps me and my wallet safer. It's like living two hours from the nearest Apple Store......:)



Mike

[ttboost]

I was just showing that you don't have to spend $70k, $80K, $90k on a car...

[DHall1]

You want me to pick one out for you?

2015 give me a budget of 65

done deal

[ttboost]

Be done with it already...stop torturing yourself...you won't be disappointed...

[Aronis]

LOL....my dad has a 2015 (fixed year) S8, and I'm tempting him to get a 2019 S8Plus.

Mike

[ttboost]

Go borrow it for a week...or even a day...you'll have your decision made...

[Aronis]

Go borrow it for a week...or even a day...you'll have your decision made...

Been there, done that. When I had my 2013 A8L 4.0T , he had a 2012 NA V8 A8L, and after driving my 4.0T he went out and got a 2014 4.0T and then later traded up to the 2015 S8. (Had year wrong above).

I miss my A8L, particularly the massage seats.

Mike

[ttboost]

Then what, pray tell, are you waiting for? Just wasting our time...LOL...

[Aronis]

RS5 does look nice...:)

Not wasting your time, clearly you have nothing better to do than to chat with me :)

Going to pull my instrument cluster this afternoon and install the 'new' second hand one. :)

Mike

[fukinavit]

Or just get a tesla model s and blow everything you listed out of the water. Had a ride from the airport in one as a cab, 4 big guys and baggage, all fitted in and in insane mode, holy shit, ridiculous!

[DHall1]

F___ Tesla, Uber and FB

you may interchange in any order

the Ai Volvo that ran down the j walker while the convicted armed robber Uber employee was watching her phone. Priceless

[Aronis]

New A6 line has 48 volt electric motors and the turbo V6, no specs yet....should be interesting...image 4.0T aided by a couple electric motorist the hubs. LOL....do what Lexus did with their hybrid but better.
Mike

[ben916]

F___ Tesla, Uber and FB

you may interchange in any order

Amen to that!

[Aronis]

Amen to that!

Now that is off the original topic LOL.

But I agree too.

Mike

[DHall1]

Hehe, when I see Tesla, Uber or Facebook even mentioned......I need to go find my meds

i hate them!!!!!

[fukinavit]

Hehe, when I see Tesla, Uber or Facebook even mentioned......I need to go find my meds

i hate them!!!!!

You can take an uber tesla while surfing Facebook.

[DHall1]

Ask me if

1. I have ever used uber
2. On Facebook
3. Even sat in a Tesla

never ever

[fukinavit]

Ask me if

1. I have ever used uber
2. On Facebook
3. Even sat in a Tesla

never ever

So basically you know nothing about any of them.

Fair enough.

[DHall1]

Silly fukinavit

because I choose not to support an organization you think I know nothing about them.




So basically you know nothing about any of them.

Fair enough.

[Aronis]

This thread has taken hilarious turns!

"I'm D-Hall and it's...

Uber.......Hate em!

Tesla......Despise them!

Facebook....Loath Thee!

with my fleet of old RS6's

I choose to be free......."

There's a song in there somewhere....

Mike

[DHall1]

If the stone cold killer Uber doesn't get you....then the Tesla will burn you like an incinerator

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-model-x-driver-dies-210300147.html

[papadoc]

Off topic, but did you notice the A4 that hit the Tesla as well? In our area, there are more Teslas sold than Camrys or Civics. As far as I am concerned, you can fukanavit. Too many of the damn things around here.

Mike, the C7 S6 is a sweet ride, and I am sure you can get in a CPO one at a very reasonable price. Not as big as the S8, but I rarely have back seat passengers, and I would guess that is your status as well. Nice balance between off the line speed if you want that, especially with launch control, and highway mileage for cruising. I routinely get 25+ mpg on my twice monthly jaunts to Monterey. Just keep a radar detector on board for dusting the unwary.

[DHall1]

Looks like FB taking it in the shorts. Too bad

[Aronis]

Closed my FB account.....and my younger kids know enough to stay off such platforms. At least his "Forum" is just car stuff. I don't think anything we talk about here would come back to haunt us unless Audi want's to kill us!

Mike

(PS Audi, I bought out my Q7 lease, I am a good guy don't kill me, sorry about buying a BMW also and don't hate me over the Civic I bought my kid, the 08 convertible A4 was getting too costly LOL)

[DHall1]

^^ Mike...too funny.

I almost forgot about photobucket and Craigslist

F'em

All these .com companies with the "free" bait and switch tactics. Just as I can turn back the clocks on my cars....I can turn back my digital footprint.

With that said, I'm headed out on my mtn bike. No digital service needed.

[CBeau]

You can never "turn back" your digital footprint. Its there forever to be exploited and pimped like a cheap whore by the "progressive" social media powers that be. You can "turn back" or mitigate any future footprint you leave, but whats there is there. Im not in the bus. but have friends who are and have some businesses of my own that dabble in it for their own marketing purposes, and I can tell you, Facebook and Google (read Android phones) etc., theyre all tied into the credit reporting agencies and credit card companies and banking system and all that. Im not an apocalyptic bomb shelter type person or anything of the sort.... but trust me its true and its the world we live in now and increasingly will be. How does this commentary relate or belong at all in this great RS6 forum???..... thankfully I likely won't be around to see this human identity surrendered for marketable digital identity phenomenon fully take hold..... and as long as I can keep all my old skool rides - very much including my beloved and quirky RS6 - running and making me smile... everything will be ok. And I don't think Ingolstadt put a GPS / DNA tracking chip in my '03 RS6.... read = valuable car getting more valuable by the day.


^^ Mike...too funny.

I almost forgot about photobucket and Craigslist

F'em

All these .com companies with the "free" bait and switch tactics. Just as I can turn back the clocks on my cars....I can turn back my digital footprint.

With that said, I'm headed out on my mtn bike. No digital service needed.

[DHall1]

^^ Yep, I could see the writing on the walls so I have never signed up for any service. FB, google, instagram, chat this or that.

They can all monetize my middle finger

[Aronis]

You can never "turn back" your digital footprint. And I don't think Ingolstadt put a GPS / DNA tracking chip in my '03 RS6.... read = valuable car getting more valuable by the day.

LOL, a bit of paranoia is a good thing, ...I guess...

I was just peaking at your EMR, tsk tsk, CBeau, shame shame......(JK)

Mike

[DHall1]

F___ Tesla. Do you know the average income of a Model X owner?

Looks like revenge of the machines.

Add stone cold killer to the flagship Tesla X. Autopilot was on!

Read the article....Apple engineer repeatedly complained about the autopilot

https://www.google.com/amp/abc7news.com/amp/automotive/exclusive-autopilot-part-of-tesla-crash-investigation-i-team-rides-in-model-x-to-site/3284757/



If the stone cold killer Uber doesn't get you....then the Tesla will burn you like an incinerator

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-model-x-driver-dies-210300147.html

[Aronis]

Ya, ya, ya, sky net, blah, blah, blah, terminator....

But what about the DRC in the RS5?

Mike

(kicking dead horse)

[DHall1]

Hehe, let me check my wife's Cerner super computer for some EMR data on the subject.

Yep, the DRC will fail but when it does you can install coilovers and be done with it.

[Aronis]

You had the mention Cerner, My GOD is their software is such SHIT! Trying to get our hospital to change to Epic. But that costs $100,000,000.00 Yes 100 million dollars. How's your "Free Healthcare" treating you?

Mike

[DHall1]

My neighbors grass is always perfect.

Wait, I have rock for grass....I'm good.

Yeah, Epic is $$$ it's the no choice option. You take what they give you.

She is in finance but there is cross over to clinical. It's all tied together. Screw healthcare costs, don't eat out, don't eat anything frozen with preservatives, limit meat, screw all sodas and flavored drinks. = live longer. I'm 55 and still don't need any prescriptions for anything. Just got back from 2hr mtn bike ride.

[DHall1]

In the two weeks since I posted this......

Tesla down 70pts

Facebook down 40pts

And put a fork in Uber

who thought RS6.com could move markets


F___ Tesla, Uber and FB

you may interchange in any order

the Ai Volvo that ran down the j walker while the convicted armed robber Uber employee was watching her phone. Priceless

[Aronis]

In the two weeks since I posted this......

Tesla down 70pts

Facebook down 40pts

And put a fork in Uber

who thought RS6.com could move markets

that's too funny!

Mike

[DHall1]

Zuckersucker only sold 13m shares in the first quarter.

Nothing to see here folks. Keep it moving.

FB up 50 on no volume the last 3 months just to chop all these heads off. Suckers


In the two weeks since I posted this......

Tesla down 70pts

Facebook down 40pts

And put a fork in Uber

who thought RS6.com could move markets