sadly, I do not. I sold it shortly after I finished building it. A symptom of what my wife classifies as my personality disorder is that I enjoy building cars far more than operating them, or what she calls “dipshititis’

yes, I’m aware of this, and that’s why it took about 2 years to assemble all the bits.

It’s in good shape. I’d bet the rear quarters are not original, but so what.

Q3 is capacity constrained. very few of them are getting to the US, AFAIK

It’s not all like the opening of the Sopranos (OK, a lot of it is). I live in NJ, in the woods, on a pristine mountain lake. I see thousands of stars at night in my clear night air, and the biggest hassle I have to deal with is the occasional bear grubbing through my trash bins and the neighborhood bald eagles…

it’s also junk because it REEKS OF COMPROMISE. Audi interiors are spectacular from not jsut the materials, but the thought that goes into them. Sit in an A3 and put a water bottle in the cup holder. It blocks/hits the climate control. Why? Because that’s where Audi wanted the cup holders, even though the Golf has them…

My thought is that Audi won’t keep it up. The A3 is junk. VW learned that you can only sell junk for so long before people figure out it’s junk. I see 4 BMW 320’s and 2 CLA’s for every A3 that I see, and this is New Jersey: hope to aspirational luxury cars.

yes, and I’m agreeing with /supporting your claim.

diesel engines are actually MORE complex than gas motors. Look at a current VW TDI motor and it’s got multiple fuel pumps, two EGR systems, a Diesel Particulate Filter that you really should read up about how it operates, becuase it will melt your brain. That’s not even counting things like electric heaters to make up…

so for an electric car that gets sold used, does the concept of odometer miles even mean anything? and if so, what? What goes wrong on an EV with ‘miles’? maybe batteries? wear in the two motor bearings? maybe suspension wear? It just seems like an irrelevant metric, anymore.

all this is great, but what has Ferdi done for us lately? VW is still hopelessly, comically outmatched in the US market. Audi has been languishing as a third-place luxury brand for years, and it has been cycling through chief designers - each new one worse than the last. (have you seen the new Q7? ugh!)…

sorry. but this chart is dead wrong.

so.... what does the ‘e-diesel’ turn into after it’s burned? back into CO2?

People may say they’ll pay for the tech, but people have become a lot more disingenuous about surveys. People also say they don’t eat at McDonald’s, but the check out line at MickeyD’s doesn’t have tumbleweeds rolling about, does it?

Maybe a stupid question, but with interlinked air craft, modern drone technology, ship mounted lasers, and everything else that's coming down the line, is the concept of a manned fighter becoming obsolete? If but for aerial one-on-one combat with other fighters, what's the need? A 5th generation fighter is too costly…

but wouldn't that make sense? The USMC has always loved the VTOL concept and they've done a lot to build around it. Correct me where I'm wrong here, but the Marines got exactly the plane they wanted. the Air Force and the Navy got sloppy seconds compromises.

I don’t get all the “BUT IT’S FAKE!” hatred for this stuff.

It’s easy:

I have a solution for you:

the diesel is like $1500 more than the gas motor. Is is worth it? did you run the math? diesel is running about 15% more per gallon than petrol at the pump. I question paying more for a car to use more expensive fuel (albeit at a lesser consumption rate). I'd think you'd have to really pound out the miles to make the…