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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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Hey hang on a mo there it's not just a Catapiller D5B Dozer it's a S D5B, because it has more power than the one 10 years before
I'm not trying to take anything away from any of the models as i do like them really (even the oil burners) but the S badges used to be retained for the really special models. Just look at the original S1 for instance, bearing in mind we’re we are talking early to mid 80’s the 2.1 5 pot engine producing 500+ bhp, massive turbo lag that made for no low end grunt but to overcome this they fitted anti lag. A system that threw fuel (PETROL) down in the turbo to keep it spinning, even when the throttle was closed. This made huge bangs and exhaust flames that would make old people pee themselves. Now that’s what an S should be, not the van that brought it there. Don’t even get me started on the Pikes Peak version produced when Group B was banned i think Mouton still holds the record for going up over there 25 years ago!! So ok maybe I got a little carried away there and not all S’s should be like that but you know what I mean.
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you know better . . . . Audi A8 D2 3.7 Quattro Sport 1999 FL - Melange 2nd Place Winner - A8-Freunde Annual German Meet 2012 at Edersee 20" x 9" Bentley GTC Wheels with 385mm W12 Front Discs & Bentley Caliper Covers, Front Lowered on Coilovers, Xenons, Combined DRLs and LED Foglights to modified OEM front fog lamp position, Alcantara/Leather, Full Black Alcantara headlining + pillars and blind shelf, Bespoke Flat Bottomed Sports Steering Wheel, Dark Myrtle Wood, Autodim Mirrors, Bose, Blinds, Digital TV, Ski Hatch, Modified rear exhaust section for extra V8 Burble Audi S8 D2 Final Edition 2002, Avus Silver with Red Leather Interior Tiptronic with Sport mode button, Sony rear entertainment package, Bose sound system, Audi Navigation Plus, 20 inch Final Edition alloys, Full Cat Back Stainless Milltek exhaust, giving a great V8 burble Audi A8L D2 4.2 Petrol with LPG - Ebony Black Audi A8L D4 FL 4.0T Petrol twin turbo - Havana Black Audi A2 1.6 FSi Sport - Dolphin Grey with Votex body kit and Red Leather Interior and some other A8's A8L's and Mercs |
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I'm not ungrateful, the insignia I drove a few years ago was yucky but... That car is £45,000 ish with the options on it. That's ten times what I would spend on a car. for that it has to be good, no, make that great. It's ok but if it was something I'd just got off the fore court for that money I would be kicking myself. Not worth it. A manual TT V6 rs, an S4 maybe, now that's a different matter. In comparison to an S8 from £3-6k it's laughable. The whole status thing of driving a new car would have to matter to me, if that was the case i'd have a 997 carrera 2s on a private plate.
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Well I finally got mine back today, no comments about the quality of the repair here, oh no, another whole new thread with photo's for that.
My seating position had been moved and i'd never saved it so was perched and weird until I sorted it. Steering much nicer than a5, wheel the same size if not smaller than a5, must have been the differing rim thickness that threw me, along with the ghastly overweighting at speed that tries to simulate feel. How the hell does that get passed for production? Seats softer and feel lovely to be back in. Instant, LINEAR, powerrrr. Nice. For a 14 year old engine and gearbox I'm very impressed. My brakes are crap. First inch or two of travel provides the braking you would employ rolling up to a red light, only really bites if you STOMP on the pedal compared to the A5. my concert is on a par with the B&O setup in the A5. I'm a hifi nerd so spent half an hour fiddling in the a5 to improve matters. Touch crisper response at the extremes of the frequency range from the B&O setup. Soundstage a touch better and defined too but not much in it. How crap is the standard install I wonder? 600 miles later I wouldn't touch one with a bargepole. Wife loved it however, so it would seem Audi make girl's cars now.
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"Man Math" - The means by which a caring husband convinces his wife that a 4.2 A8 is in fact cheaper to run than a tiny Auto crap box "Being in touch with your feminine side" - The ability to, in the 30 seconds following a major accident, obtain your wifes approval for replacing your big german car with another "because otherwise we'd be dead". See also sulking for two years until she finally allows you to get another purely on the basis of your current one being the wrong colour. |
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I read this with real interest. I have an 06 A8 diesel. To be fair it's got all the toys thanks to the previous owner. When I had it serviced the local Audi independant specialist loaned me his 07 plate S4. Decent of him I know BUT the difference in car was staggering.
The S4 went like the wind and sounded great....and did 18mpg ....but the overall feel was not a patch on my own A8, from the seating, the dashboard, the build was even different quality. I had the A8 remapped and it won't compete with an S4, nor am I suggesting it will - but as a family saloon that ticks many other boxes - it's nippy enough. I guess the issue is that even if a car is a few years old....in it's day it was a high price range topper and tbh that doesn't alter, gadget and electronics do and there is the key difference.... so to compare a new A5 to an old S8....I would go with an older S8 all day long... I used to have Ford RS's....I have the same thoughts over the 'softening' of that badge too...and the introduction of the ST range....the Audi S cars should be special, not sure we all need a nuclear explosion at the rear each time we change gear.....Walter Rohrl may disagree !! |
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He likes it and his wife likes (and drives) it and likes the Bose audio. Engine he reckons is superb (for a diesel) - he had an S4 estate before. Looks good from the outside too, but the interior just looks like a VW - hard black plastic. It even has manual seat adjustement!
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What are they selling you blokes in the UK? Here in the States we supposedly get fewer options and fewer models (most Avants have been dropped, no diesels in certain cars, etc.), but the cars we're getting feel special. They don't have nary the lack of quality I'm reading here. Now, I am not too privy to the newest cars because I'm but 23 years on and most of my friends are of a similar age, so we buy used, but I've been in A5s and S5s and A8s and S8s and A4s and S4s, and 6s as well, and I can't say I've seen any without power seat adjustment, and fine interior materials. Maybe we aren't nearly as shorted as we'd believe.
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Another thing I noticed on my mates "new" A5 which may help explain that is the lack of proper door seals.
The good old "8" has both inner and outer seals on the doors, not sure what other Audi models have as I've never studied it. (My basic Ford Focus obviously doesn't). I presume it not only keeps the sills etc. clean (you wouldn't want your best frock smeared in motorway grime arriving at the opera would you?) but keeps the noise levels down. But I was rather surprised to see the S-line A5 was just the same as any basic car with only inner seals - and grubby sills.
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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! |
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