What price an Audi Coupe?

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Mon 15 Jul 2002 16:47
What price an Audi Coupe? - Richard Hall
I'm toying with the idea of selling my Audi and buying a diesel, since my daily round trip to work is about to increase from 3 miles to 30. It's a Coupe 20V manual, 1990/H, 142K, no service history until I bought it, but lots of useful bills since (cambelt, brake discs, shock absorbers and more). Nice dark red/bronze metallic, not fridge white or faded red like so many of them.

I had a look at Parkers online price guide, which suggested just over £4K for a private sale (assuming I have the scrape down one side sorted out, and have it valeted to get rid of all the dog pawprints on the seats). I don't believe this for a moment, but 20Vs turn up so rarely that it's difficult to get a feel for value by looking in the classifieds. So what is it really worth - any suggestions?
Richard Hall
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Sat 20 Jul 2002 18:49
What price an Audi Coupe? - El Dingo
Richard,

My old 90-20V did 30 mpg, and what a lovely engine! - if fuel economy is your only worry, I'd keep it...

Martin.
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Sat 20 Jul 2002 21:49
What price an Audi Coupe? - Richard Hall
Martin

I gave it a bit of thought, and had already reached the same conclusion when I read your message. Can't really face driving a Peugeot 405 diesel instead, pleasant though they are. What finally clinched it was being tailgated by an idiot in a Vectra, six inches off my back bumper all the way through the outskirts of Ipswich, then reaching the end of the 30 limit, flooring the throttle in third and seeing said Vectra rapidly dwindle to a tiny dot in my rear view mirror. You don't often need 170 BHP, but it can be handy sometimes....

Richard Hall
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Sun 21 Jul 2002 09:10
What price an Audi Coupe? - M.M
Richard,

>reaching the end of the 30 limit, flooring the throttle in third and seeing said "whatever" rapidly dwindle to a tiny dot in my rear view mirror......

Funnily enough I used to enjoy just the same in our old BX TD Estate, even more impressive really due to the "diesel dump" through the exhaust when the boost came on!

;-)



David W
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Thu 25 Jul 2002 22:09
What price an Audi Coupe? - El Dingo
Richard,

This bit should go into the 'discussion' area really...
Like you, I respect the 30 limit (and the 40 and 50 ones) but I must admit to bing a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to the motorway limit.
Also, like you, I get tailgated in town, by buses, Vectras, old ladies in Fiestas....I guess you know the story.
My 150 BHP A4 is just quick enough to show most of these a clean pair of heels!


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