After a short 4 months with my second S3, it's going next week.
Replacing it with a basic FWD A3 Sport Hatch 1.4.
Had ordered the wife a S5, but was swithering on changing her car due to oil industry related issues.
Had cancelled, but was enticed back in with a, nigh on impossible to turn down, no brainer of a deal.
I still wanted to compromise and reduce costs, so the S3 goes.
Was a pretty easy decision in all honesty. I use it for commuting only and rarely do any extra miles in it, using the wife's car at the weekends when out and about with our daughter.
The S3 saloon is definitely a marked improvement on theS3 Sportback I had.
Mag ride very much makes up for some of the faults the basic model has.
However, the mag ride doesn't IMO increase the excitement any unfortunately, nor make me want to drive it unnecessarily, so I'd be as well using something a touch more mundane for the commute and reduce my monthly and fuel costs and squirrel some cash away into savings.
Going to get more time in the wife's car for when I want a bit of fun.
Then when the oil industry starts to bring confidence back, will buy something to keep in the garage, probably RWD for occasional use.
Couple of pics of the wife's car.
Replacing it with a basic FWD A3 Sport Hatch 1.4.
Had ordered the wife a S5, but was swithering on changing her car due to oil industry related issues.
Had cancelled, but was enticed back in with a, nigh on impossible to turn down, no brainer of a deal.
I still wanted to compromise and reduce costs, so the S3 goes.
Was a pretty easy decision in all honesty. I use it for commuting only and rarely do any extra miles in it, using the wife's car at the weekends when out and about with our daughter.
The S3 saloon is definitely a marked improvement on theS3 Sportback I had.
Mag ride very much makes up for some of the faults the basic model has.
However, the mag ride doesn't IMO increase the excitement any unfortunately, nor make me want to drive it unnecessarily, so I'd be as well using something a touch more mundane for the commute and reduce my monthly and fuel costs and squirrel some cash away into savings.
Going to get more time in the wife's car for when I want a bit of fun.
Then when the oil industry starts to bring confidence back, will buy something to keep in the garage, probably RWD for occasional use.
Couple of pics of the wife's car.