Let me sell you on the UrS4. First off.. the B5 A4/S4... cosmetically.. great looking car. However, it's also a complete bitch to work on, unreliable as hell, and they cut a lot of corners in terms of interior quality. Now.. hte UrS4/S6, it's is the best engine Audi has ever made (developed through WRC…

Nope. They're quite reliable. The problem is other Audis are garbage, so the reputation of "complicated expensive to maintain" rubs off on them. But they're actually, really really really good cars. I have put 50k on mine with minimal issues.

You don't know what you are talking about. I own an UrS6 and it's been a complete tank, easy to work on, and a joy to own. Most Audis are POS's, but they got this one right. The engine is the final swan song of the legendary 20v I5 turbo used in WRC in the 80s, so they worked out any issues by this point.

The UrS4 isn't. The motor and drivetrain are bulletproof, the only weakness being the factory coils. You can chip them to around 300hp and have no issues whatsoever, and bolt on a bigger snail and get around 400hp, again, without any reliability issues at all. You don't know what you are talking about. Most audis…

No character? pffft.

Huh. I bought mine at 100k, and now I'm at 146k. I had a relay fail once, which I replaced for $10, and I had my hatch wiring break, which I resoldered/heatshrinked. No other electrical issues in 4 years of ownership.

It's not that your car isnt' cool... it is cool... but for the price you'll spend keeping it on the road, vs the performance... might as well step up your game to the UrS4/S6 world. Probably more reliable, and way way way more power/potential. :)

These cars are the exception. It's kind of a secret; everyone assumes unreliablility but they're bulletproof tanks, since the engine is the swan song of all the WRC crazyness in the 80s.

You're wrong. These cars are bulletproof and built like tanks.

Only if you like slow cars worth even less. :P

Nickel and dime how? Mine's been amazing.

And you'd be wrong. The Audi is crazy reliable since that engine was what was used in WRC in the 80s. Battle tested. Final swan song for the 20v I5 turbo. I've driven mine 50k, and apart from a coolant hose going bad, and a coil failing, it's been sublime. Chipped to 290hp, factory sequential blowoff valve,…

Wouldn't increasing the taxation on the rich alleviate some of the burden of the middle class? And yeah, I agree. Healthy middle class = healthy economy.

Cuz you can't. Thanks for playing!

Interesting points. However.... data shows this stuff:

Buzz Killington, this is my response to you, for why younger people might not want to drive themselves, hopefully you can understand where they are coming from.

That's not really a fair comparison. First of all, the national highway system wasn't built because of pressure from automakers, although that's the popular and enduring myth. Plans for an interstate system started way back in the 1910s, and they were built as much for national defense as anything else. Also, the…

I like trains. I grew up around them, my grandpa was an engineer for Chicago Northwestern, and my dad took me to train yards all the time growing up. I've never really seen the appeal of simulators though, because of this:

I skimmed it, saw a bunch of stuff from a REALLLLLLLLLLY long time ago. I saw nothing of value that Arabs have contributed to humanity in the past few thousand years. Prove me wrong.