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Same here, the buyer would still need to pay all local taxes/registration fees that cars here in Finland have on them. Plus shipping costs. You can buy older cars from within Europe and import them to Finland cheaper, but you still have to pay some taxes. I don't remember the age of the car...

Your original delivery was pretty short, but I feel your pain about the new delivery time. I ordered my SB in early November and had to wait until the end of April, almost 6 months. It was worth it though.

Haldex is essentially front wheel drive, until it detects the front wheels slipping. Then it sends power to wheels that are not slipping (typically in this case the rear wheels). So it's a part-time 4WD system.

Agree. Although I went with the 18" black "rotor" rims on my SB, but then it's also black... :happy:

Look in the pics sticky not too far from the last post, there is one smartphone shot there, still need to download the better shots from my camera... (thanks for the reminder!)

Like others have said, I believe it depends what you want and what extras you really don't need. Going the full S-line package is fairly expensive as a whole, especially here in Finland where taxes on cars are very high. I went a less expensive route and got the most important parts (to me) of...

We use to have something like 100% car tax here in Finland, thankfully it's lowered quite a bit from that now. There's 24% VAT plus taxes based on engine size and CO2 emissions. I believe it's in the range of about 30-40% total taxes on a new car, although I didn't calculate it for my SB. The...

You only live once! I wanted the 1.8 TFSI, but here in Finland it is not available until August at the earliest, and that was when I ordered my 8V SB back in early November last year! Plus, the 1.8 was only available with quattro package which pushed it way out of my budget. By the way, nice...

8V 1.4TFSI S-tronic with roughly 1100 miles on the clock, overall average (2) from the start is 40.9mpg. Most of that is on auto mode, but last couple days I've been using efficiency. Of course there is some dynamic mixed in there too, but not too much yet. This is with 18" wheels and tire...

I have S-line suspension on my 8V along with the 18" wheels, and I do not find it uncomfortable for long trips. About a week after delivery, I took a 600km return trip. Compared to my previous car, a Golf Mk6 with sport suspension and 17" wheels, I actually felt less tired at the end of each leg...

New A3 owner here, details in my sig. First-time Audi owner but no stranger to the platform, I previously owned a Golf Mk6 and before that a Mk5. Edit: There's a quick pic of my A3 in the A3 pics post if anyone is interested. Better photos still needed...

Maybe that's related to vertigo1's post, you weren't engaging the second "full" throttle position? I dunno...

Hmm... I think I may have seen this before, but to be honest I didn't really think about it. I'll confirm it in the morning on the way to work.

I'm still no closer to solving this. Mp3tag does not seem to be working correctly with these m4a files, because it does not show any tags... even artist/album is empty. So I loaded up some albums in foobar2000, and I found that at least the first two albums I checked had embedded artwork. One of...

When in efficiency mode and the s-tronic goes into neutral while coasting, if you very lightly touch the brake pedal, the gear will re-engage and you get engine braking. It seems to stay this way until you use the gas pedal again. Just like with start/stop, once you learn a few tricks, you can...

That's only one mode, just leave it in dynamic or auto then you won't have an issue.

Coasting in neutral with the engine at idle will not increase engine wear. Remember, there is no load on the engine during this time, so lower oil pressure will have basically zero impact (unless there is no oil pressure, of course). If anything, it will actually reduce wear compared to engine...

Thanks, I'll look into it, but I don't think any of my M4A's currently have embedded artwork (I don't believe iTunes embeds the artwork, it's saved in the database if I remember correctly). These are NOT tracks purchased from Apple, they are encoded by iTunes from ripped WAV files that I get...

I'm not sure about the offset, but there would be room for 19's or even bigger in the wheelwheels with the S-line suspension. I'm not sure the A3 would look good with anything bigger than 18's, I'm really not into that look... really oversized wheels. I think the 18's fit nicely on the A3. My...

I ordered my SB in early November, just got it three weeks ago. When I asked about the 1.8 TFSI, they said earliest delivery was August!