The best example of our poor automotive choices. There are certain courses of action that you should avoid when it comes to buying cars. Here we’ll deal only with the considerations when it comes to bodywork:
- Don’t buy them when wet
- Don’t buy them in the dark
- Definitely don’t do both of these things together
This car remains standard… for now. This is partly due to trying to sell it a couple of years ago as the cheapest model on eBay… and no one taking us up on the offer, and also due to a lack of time/interest/funds.
Resigned to our ownership and E’s repeated claims that this is on the cusp of becoming an ‘appreciating classic’, interest is increasing in this static museum exhibit on our drive way.
The tired cream leather interior has been replaced with a black leather interior including Recaro front seats. The B5 came with 17″ wheels as standard but the later B6 model came with 18’s and as such are the perfect (fairly) cheap way to improve the stance. These also reside gathering dust in a shed some 25 miles north of our garage.
Plans are afoot to make this the daily driver this year. Once on the road, minor tuning can commence, along with the removal of the absolutely dreadful spoiler.
The Audi A4 followed the Audi 80 and commenced with this model, the B5 (thereafter followed by B6, B7, B8, you get the picture). In this particular iteration, there was no ‘RS’ version making the B5 S4 the top of the available range. Due to it not having the RS badge, it doesn’t come with the RS price tag but remains an extremely tuneable 4WD saloon and you can guarantee you won’t have someone pull alongside you in ‘the better one’. No wide arches, no lairy chrome wing mirrors, the B5 S4 can go relatively unnoticed until you storm past someone on an A road courtesy of tuneable V6 twin turbo power.
M.
Turbochatter 