Here's my own anecdotal rebuttal to the "bad Audi" suggestion. I drive in the Greater Toronto Area where the city's answer to all winter road issues is to liberally apply raw rock salt to everything. Cars don't generally last very long here unless stored under a tarp in a sealed garage.
I just came back from a jaunt in my 16 year-old Audi A4 2.8 Quattro. It's a 1998 (and a half), owned by me from new and serviced, at the dealer, at quite reasonable prices. It's in excellent shape, and the paint (original) still shines up after a wash and wax close to like-factory-new gloss. No rust on it anywhere. My chief complaint is the difficulty in fitting an iPod dock to it. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:49 AM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014, at 15:17, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> The Barnack is now an *expensive* historic novelty, Paul. ;-) >> >> The Audi vs Mercedes thing is interesting … Far as I've seen, ten year >> old Audis are often too expensive to repair and keep running, seldom seen >> on the road, while there seem to be a LOT of perfectly healthy 20+ year >> old Mercedes on the road all the time around here. > > the dangers of generalizing from personal experience — here in Colorado, > there are more than ten times as many 10-year-old Audis as Mercedes on > the road; i was in Denmark last week and noticed a similar proportion, > perhaps not quite as skewed; my partner is on her third Audi, having > being forced once again by other people's recklessness to upgrade from > an over 10-year-old A4 that was in great condition; the latest purchase > is a 2009, and our intention is to keep it at least five years > >> Quality and >> durability costs money to buy but pays you back in the long run. The fact >> that few people keep a car long enough to obtain this kind of value is >> their problem… > > … and someone else's opportunity; all this household's Audi purchase > were used but in excellent condition; and i just bought my fourth old > Saab, a 1995 9000 Aero; while these cars present some challenges they > suit my needs well while costing relatively little; my approach to > cameras is similar — a mix of old and newish, but mostly purchased used, > has a certain practicality that makes up for never getting to experience > that new camera smell > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
