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10th April 2012, 07:53 PM
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Seen on the road
A38 Saturday. Was overtaken by a tasty mid blue RS4.
A38 Today. Overtook and was overtaken (several times), by a lovely black D3 W12, with ACC on a 54 plate I'm liking the A38 
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10th April 2012, 08:27 PM
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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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10th April 2012, 09:43 PM
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I once bought my wife an Austin Ambassador
She was significantly unimpressed... I sold it four months later for about double what I paid. Yay! Funny how she only ever remembers the bad stuff. Is this normal? On another subject Anyone know of a decent 08-09 Allroad for sale? Or an 08-09 Merc ML?
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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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10th April 2012, 09:51 PM
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(not mine, though I did have to take it off the regular user and drive it for a few days to be eligible for the end-of-contract special sell-off deal) It was ideal with 3 kids and all their rubbish as it was CAVERNOUS. 1.7L with power-steering (try driving one without!). She quite liked it as it was NEVER full. Someone drove straight into the back of it at 60mph while she was stationary at some lights (M40 Handy Cross junction at High Wycombe) and literally EVERY panel was bent. Luckily she was alone as the other car (an escort van I think) ended up mostly in the back seat. She just had a bit of whiplash and was otherwise OK, so was the other driver! This was after she'd had it for 2 years and we got back more from the insurers than we'd paid for it. 
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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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10th April 2012, 10:18 PM
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Could we start a fan club?
Naaa I bet there's one already, and I'm betting them to be a pretty defensive lot  Your wife was lucky. I guess they had big crumple zones, without the inconvenience of a safety cell. The one I got was an HL and was amazingly loaded. As per many of that marque you could park it on the handbrake, pointing up a hill, then with use of the clutch amuse the kids with the quite extreme see saw effect, back and forth
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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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11th April 2012, 07:56 AM
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It did a job for us, I'm almost ashamed to say what followed it (so I won't). A blue Dolomite 1850HL preceded it though.
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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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#9
11th April 2012, 07:58 AM
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I think I could RUN faster than that.....
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2002 D2 S8 – Ming Blue, Valcona leather, Vavona wood insert, solar sunroof (to be fitted), Heated rear seats, extended leather pack, 18” Avus, ski hatch, Bose, auto dim rear view mirror, rear blind.
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11th April 2012, 08:02 AM
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Thanks to member Stephen Bundy from Portsmouth who took this photograph of his Ambassador 1.7 HL in the Isle of Skye some years ago. Stephen than went on to visit John O'Groat before returning home via Inverness, Dundee, and North East England. He still has the car although it is now a different colour. This is, presumably, rust.
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2002 D2 S8 – Ming Blue, Valcona leather, Vavona wood insert, solar sunroof (to be fitted), Heated rear seats, extended leather pack, 18” Avus, ski hatch, Bose, auto dim rear view mirror, rear blind.
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