[B@fink]

Touchy subject but, after the 8 goes to the big garage in the sky (I hope it's not listening!) what is the general pattern? Do most people put on the sensible shoes and go back to a little Ecobox? Or straight back to A8 land? It's something that's starting to play on my mind, I've had the old lady for a decade and I know it can't go on forever, its 21 after all. The paint has a few little bubbles, she's so old that the electrical gremlins (wipers, blowers) are repeat offenders and the gearbox keeps giving the occasional kick just to remind me it there. But it's been pretty much faultless, it always starts, it always gets me there quietly and in perfect comfort (with slightly battered wallet!) and I don't know many 21 year old daily drivers that live outside, have to do all the commutes, shopping, tip runs and everything in between yet with a wash and a polish could still look as box fresh. But I know we're getting close to our swan song. I know one day, one day too soon, it will leave. Something too big for me to fix will finally fell it. and where do I go from there? Financially it's a folly jumping into another, most are now diesel and I'll be dragged to hades over broken glass before I'd ever own a machine powered by that filthy liquor, and the D3 frankly looks flabby next to the svelte D2 (ha! take that D3 owners ) but......there's a reason I've owned this one for a decade and will genuinely grieve when it goes (it's outlasted jobs, relationships and several pets ) and you all know the reasons, otherwise you wouldn't be driving one either! So whilst I hope I don't need to know for sometime, eco box? Another? Something equally as massive? What normally happens after?