Don’t know where “here” is, but I will note that it was decidedly not the dealer’s fault. On the contrary, they went to bat for me with Audi, and couldn’t get anywhere. Then I went to Audi directly, and they told me the same thing. Ironically, the reason they wouldn’t cover my repair fully was because they had settled…

The 2.0TSI was different than the later 2.0TFSI (it’s the “F” that f’s you). That’s where the major oil consumption issue began. And, you can now claim to know someone with the B8 who had maladies to report past the actual numbers on the service bills. Me and over 126,000 others (counting not only A4s, but also A5s and…

So . . . no B8's then? And nothing with the 2.0TFSI?

Yes! Came here to post just this. It didn’t malfunction! It was just doing what Mustangs always do when they see people on the side of the road — charge! Once the AI has a little more life experience, it will know how much harder those bales of hay are to move than they first appear, and it will go in with a bigger…

I’m guessing no B8's then.  And nothing with the 2.0TFSI.

Ding ding ding!

. . . not in my experience. I just had an A4 Avant with the 2.0T, but no amount of maintenance could fix that thing. It had a major design defect in its engine. And Audi was all too happy to tell me to suck it up and deal.

I’ll see that and raise you.  Don’t bother with the warranty either.  They will move heaven and earth to screw you out of that too until they get you just over the line, then . . . tough break, open your wallet.

Mosley is up for re-election later this year, so good luck with that, dummy.

How long before they offer some idiotic two-door version of it and call it something even more illogical like the M5 Gran Sedan?

Now, this may be an unpopular opinion, but . . . I don’t like the way the exhaust pipes look.

Still holds up.  Completely.  Awesome car.

No biggy. Turns out I’m in good (ignorant) company:

This is true. I’ll chalk that up to thinking “I don’t recall how this is really spelled, but . . . it’s a jalopnik post . . . so that’ll do it.”

I get what you’re saying. Aston Martin is like that kid who is a cute baby, goes through a world-class ugly duckling phase, and then, wallah, exits adolescence as a total knockout.

Simple. Bears are just big dogs.

the new Flavor Blasted Doritos Locos Galaxy S39+.

Buying an Audi of this age is the perfect way to fast-forward to the good part — where you join your eleven prior owners in selling it to some other unfortunate soul and getting yourself a better car.

Another example of classic Audi quality (though not relevant for this S5), are the engine rebuilds necessary to correct the rampant design defect in Audi’s standard 2.0TFSI that, at full flower, causes the engine (quite impressively, I must admit) to consume a full quart of oil (not exaggerating) with every tank of…

You know from the painted the wheels and calipers that some clown did all sorts of other stupid stuff in this car.