What have you just bought?

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by thenry

My aunty just traded her TT quattro black edition (can't remember the year, was mkIII though) for a TTs black edition 2023 plate. Last of a kind the TT, no more because the maker doesn't see electrifying the car as logical they say the RS is a baby R8.

Do you like the styling of your new A3? I have reservations for Audis styling for now. I think better is coming.

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.

[thenry]

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

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

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.

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.