S3 Going

Well mate, I will keep an eye out for the S5 around the area.....

If you or the wife sees some idiot in a sepang sportback waving at you, that will be me!

Really looking forwards to seeing the S5 in the metal, it looked absolutely stunning in your pics!
 
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Yeah, hopefully see you around.
Had it detailed Thursday, here are a couple more pics. Dull day colour looks great.


A3 1.4 TFSi is okay, will do me for the commute until the oil price gets higher and stabilises (which it will).
Then I'll move it on.
 
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Sit tight, Aberdeen will pick up in 2017, the Saudis can't keep up their game for much longer.

BTW, the S5 would definitely suit gunmetal/titanium coloured alloys.
 
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yetirider said:
It simply can't be a great deal or good decision making if your moving on a car the price of an S3 after 4 months.
Its amazing how many people on this site move on S3's after a very short term ownership, budget and make the correct decisions to keep a new car for three years minimum.
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The bigger picture is always more interesting than one of the corners.
 
Martinbanshee said:
Sit tight, Aberdeen will pick up in 2017, the Saudis can't keep up their game for much longer.

BTW, the S5 would definitely suit gunmetal/titanium coloured alloys.
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I doubt it. Tthe demand for oil is still the same (increasing in fact), and it all has to be refined. It's a glut on supply from oil producers, and saudis not playing ball with the price fixing cartel, that's causing the price of oil to ddrop. This means oil producers have to compete on price. And it's the oil producers who have to accept a lower price for their product as a result.

Maybe folks from aberdeen should head for Iran since the infrastructure there has been rusting away for half my lifetime. They may need shed loads of valves, pipes and tanks before they can start to export in any meaningful way.

If several new refineries came online and started competing for the business of refining the oil then maybe, but that's not what's happening!
 
CraigI said:
Aberdeen is bleak just now, but things will improve soon enough. I guess it's about time we felt like the rest of the nation - reality check time.
Probably not this year, but in 2017 things will be back on track up here.


oil price shock that.

will take a year or so to properly filter through
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hood said:
Cant really see how having guys up in the North Sea struggling with jobs etc being a good thing.They will have kids ,mortgages and cars to pay like everyone else and at least they spend their cash which helps the whole economy and also they pay tax-so I don't take any pleasure seeing them struggle-though I do like the petrol prices just now.
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My point exactly. Anyone who thinks Aberdeen is a remote town in the northern Celtic fringes with an economy which is in some mysterious way detached from the rest of the UK is about to have a very rude awakening from some loud and tuneless bagpipes.
 
Here in Aberdeen we're not all deluded, some of us do know how the world turns and we don't think we've got our own private economy.
Yes, far too many people up here didn't capitalise on the situation and save for the future, instead they helped push the house prices up to unrealistic levels and bought cars they now can't keep, no sympathy from me.
In reality, the oil price will rise slowly and the industry will pick up but only the businesses that streamlined will survive. It's not over but a lot of people will have to change their lifestyle.
Luckily my job doesn't rely on Oil & Gas and I'm as busy as I've ever been so no worries here, I'm not clutching at straws, I'll have a job either way.
 
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Yeah, you're spot on, Shetland is gearing up for that right now. There's lots of old rigs out there that'll never be used again.
 
CraigI said:
That's okay, I'll do some saving for a while, then get something that has two seats and is RWD, which will give me what I am looking for (I am firmly of the opinion that AWD kills a huge amount of the excitement of driving), keeping the A3 for the mundane commute.
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I went RWD after the demise of my S3 and it's a completely different driving experience, and certainly one I prefer.
 
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