I have agreed to trade my 2014 3dr manual S3 for a 2017 R8 V10.
Car has been great in a very unexciting efficient kind of way, only issues were faulty haldex just after 3yrs old but bought a 5year extension when I bought the car so nil cost. Car was bought new LHD from the UK for £29.5k and exported two weeks later and has lived in salt free southern France since, got 27k euro on trade in so remarkable value motoring. Standard annual servicing, long term average of 32.4mpg, regularly saw very high speed cruising on smooth empty European mways. Exhaust tips still like new
Washed I think three times, paintwork is in excellent condition and interior is like new.
95% of its use was going to the airport and back for work, rest was racing around mountain roads.
S3 was never exciting to use, sometimes frustrating but overall a very effective tool. Will miss a manual gearbox and still not convinced by my decision but felt I had to grab it before the days of non-turbo performance engines ends. Whilst turbos are very effective they just don't feel the same.
I have a spare set of titanium 10spoke OE alloys in excellent nick and an MTM M-Cantronic which is an ace bit of kit and does what it claims to do if anybody is interested.
Drive carefully out there.
Car has been great in a very unexciting efficient kind of way, only issues were faulty haldex just after 3yrs old but bought a 5year extension when I bought the car so nil cost. Car was bought new LHD from the UK for £29.5k and exported two weeks later and has lived in salt free southern France since, got 27k euro on trade in so remarkable value motoring. Standard annual servicing, long term average of 32.4mpg, regularly saw very high speed cruising on smooth empty European mways. Exhaust tips still like new
Washed I think three times, paintwork is in excellent condition and interior is like new.
95% of its use was going to the airport and back for work, rest was racing around mountain roads.
S3 was never exciting to use, sometimes frustrating but overall a very effective tool. Will miss a manual gearbox and still not convinced by my decision but felt I had to grab it before the days of non-turbo performance engines ends. Whilst turbos are very effective they just don't feel the same.
I have a spare set of titanium 10spoke OE alloys in excellent nick and an MTM M-Cantronic which is an ace bit of kit and does what it claims to do if anybody is interested.
Drive carefully out there.