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Old 09-24-2014, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by liquiddog View Post
Audi makes elegant cars. When my parents lived in England they had a Passat Turbo Diesel. It would peg you into the seat until well over 100 mph and rode like a dream. When I lived in Wolfsburg working at VW one of the VPs had his license suspended for going 140mph in a not 140mph zone on the autobahn. It was a Phaeton W12. Actually stepped on Audi's toes because it crossed the line into luxury cars which is supposed to be Audi territory.

But.... Would you really buy a new Mercedes and hope for it to go over 100k miles? I wouldn't... That's not the focus of modern automobiles.
Any halfway decently designed and built car sold new today should be able to do 200,000 if maintained. If it won't, it either isn't designed well or isn't built well.
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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
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