To call this next car a ticking time bomb would severely underestimate the risk of owning/driving an S4 with 140k miles (and straight pipe exhaust) that you paid less than $4k to own. Owning this car could be better described as trying to take a sip from a lit Molotov cocktail or wearing a pet scorpion as a wristwatch. There is a lesson here: Live life to its fullest, I guess. Find this 2005 Audi S4 offered for $3900 in Clifton, NJ via craigslist. Tip from Cory.
Used cars haven’t been depreciating in the past decade the way they used to (don’t get me started on this subject…) but I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; nothing depreciates like an Audi. You wouldn’t expect such savage depreciation on cars that routinely win customer satisfaction surveys…but for a car that sold for $52,500 new, this thing certainly is cheap today. Find this 2014 Audi S5 Premium Plus offered for $12,990 in Santa Clara, CA via craigslist.
The Audi S5 is a two-door version of Audi’s pavement pounding S4 sport sedan, but the S5 didn’t get the upgraded 3.0T supercharged V6 in 2009 and instead lived with the 4.2 liter V8 shared with the R8 through the 2012 model year. It isn’t a bad thing to have a screaming 7000 rpm V8 […]
In 2007 Audi released the first generation (B8.5) of their A5/S5 sports coupe, which was a return to Audi’s legacy of sporty compact executive coupes that ended in 1996 with the B3/B4 Audi 80 coupe. The A5 was essentially a 2-door coupe version of the A4, and natuarlly the S5 was the souped up V8 […]
I know, I know, no one can help someone with a problem unless they recognize they have a problem; and they want help. As a friend, I want to help, but I’ve given it my best shot and failed. I’m begging for help from our readers to find suitable alternatives to this Audi S5 a […]