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I originally wasn't keen on the latest A3 but the Black Edition looks very nice in my opinion.

I wasn't going to buy anything more powerful as that would bump the road tax upto £600 a year for the first 6 years, this is if a car costs more than 40K new.

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Yes the black edition are very attractive. A real head turner. :romance: enjoy all the attention you get. :naughty:

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My A4 was a Black Edition and we loved it but the 2.0 litre 252hp TFSi wasn't the best build quality and it was expensive to run at £65 for 300 miles. The final straw was the plastic water pump that failed at about 50k miles and the local Audi dealer breaking the frame on the driver's seat and bodging it so I didn't notice for 6 months until the bodge failed. We decided to cut our loses and move on.

While not as flashy the electric Volvo XC40 twin motor is a beast of a car with >400 bhp and brings a smile to my face every time I put my foot down.

I do miss the Audi though. It was the sales manager's car so when new in 2018 he specked it to spend £49980 of his £50000 allowance. It had pretty much every option and extra. I'd wager it was the only A4 of that speck for miles around if not in the country. When we traded it in the Volvo garage admitted they were struggling to value it.

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I've currently got an A3 2018 S Line and the only trouble a few weeks ago was 2 garages had trouble removing the oil filter.

This new car is a huge step up for me because it's my first semi automatic and first with reversing camera as well as lane guidance and god know what else. It'll be like Christmas until the novelty wears off or a curb the first alloy wheel!

Just updated my insurance and that's another payment of £168 for the remaining 9 months, seems a lot.