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8th December 2018, 03:57 PM
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That's much how I got mine too ^ I walked in to Leeds Audi with a company car allowance looking for something with a big boot that could eat up miles. Drove out in an A8 instead of an A6
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8th December 2018, 04:53 PM
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Completely the opposite for me. I decided I wanted an S8 pretty soon after they were launched, but couldn't afford one at the time and my company car allowance was nowhere near allowing me one on a lease.
But, being a long-term company car user (and having bought many of my own and colleagues ex-lease vehicles) I worked out that I could probably afford one that was dropping off a lease at around 3 years old. Patience….. Meanwhile I spotted a suitable numberplate for sale - S8 with my initials. grabbed it at a decent price (£200 or so IIRC). A year or so later I started seriously looking for cars as the first ones were moving down into my price range. And in early 2002 got the incredibly-specced S8 that I think had been a demo/press car at the UK launch and I then kept for nearly 13 years. The owner before me had bought it as an "ex-Audi-management" model and driven it all over the continent in his sales management job. (I did bump into him not so long ago at a car show, driving a very tuned-up RS6 Avant) I did have a company car as well, at that time I think was a Rover 75 diesel automatic tourer (estate).... with a retune from Van Aaken that really made it fly!
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant. 2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation".  (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!  Finally: gone, but not forgotten..... 1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors. e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course.  (internal dimming mirror added later)1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer. And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850! 
Last edited by HPsauce; 8th December 2018 at 04:57 PM.
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8th December 2018, 09:37 PM
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I got my first one because of a pi55ed conversation in a pub over the best, fastest bang for bucks motor I could get second hand.
I lost that argument (I wasn't backing the Audi), but won by conceding the argument and getting an S8. Icing on the cake, when it came to move onto the D3 I got a grand more than I paid for it.
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A journey of a thousand+ (epic) miles, begins with a single step, (to the door of an 8). Lau Tzu
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