I am leasing a 2004 A4 Quattro and love it.

I love Audi's

Yep. You probably had to be around a while or at least post on PornCity to know Minte and his background. Minte's Bikini Page was one of the very first sites I hit back in the late 90's when I first got started. Then there was the "Haywood Jablowme" years, and now he's a mod over at porncity.



Minte, did you ever end up selling the bikini pages?

Tight Car!

http://www.hofele.com/design/en/Audi...ront_black.jpg

No Cd,couldn't do it. Being my first site,it's still worth more to me than I think anyone else would ever be willing to pay. You know how that is.

You know where I am at on this, still thinking I will get mine the new BMW 1 series.

I have the A8, great choice for her. The convertible A4 is nice too but that is up to you. She has good taste. :thumbsup

your girl needs to get a job not Audi.

I'm not sure about the A4 but I have driven an older model S4 (2000 - or2001) with the squential twin turbos. Now that car was a real treat to drive, it had power in every gear no matter how low the rpm's were and the handling was impecable. Drove it up to Whistler and even in the snow it was difficult to kick out the rear end.

I have owned 4 BMW's and still have one (old school e30 325 with lots of performance mods) I will probably never sell that car, I have had it for nearly 20 years and has always been really solid and reliable. It has taken a beating over the years and still runs great although I havn't driven it in a few years. It needs a paint job and a few other minor repairs. I will most likely do a full restoration on it and add a few more performance mods in the near future.

The only reason that I havn't been driving it is that I have a Jeep that I have as my daily driver now that is more suited for my needs at the moment. I don't really do all that much driving anymore and I couldn't justify having both vehicles insured when I would only drive the beemer a few times a month. Plus I couldn't really take the dog in the beemer as I would be constantly worrying that he would damage the leather or something else and he would get fur over everything. I don't have to worry about that sort of thing in the Jeep I don't even have carpets in it so when it gets dirty I can just hose it out, pull the drain plugs out of the floor and viola good as new ;)

My personal prefrence would be the BMW over the Audi, and from reading some of the responses in this thread the BEEMER would be the car to go with, but it seems that your daughter is really set on the Audi. I guess you will have to do a little more research to make sure you don't end up buying her a headache indtead of a good reliable vehicle.

I was actually looking at one for Tia, the 3 is getting a little long in the tooth (over 120,000km now) and I actually like the look of the 1. Can't find it up here yet though

Heh Rip that's why we get along, same taste in cars. :)

It's not out yet, after the first of the year.

The a5 comes out soon right? I heard the s5 is killer.

1 series link,

http://www.motortrend.com/future/fut...8_bmw_1_series

Glad to hear it. That site is a little piece of history on the web for me, it wouldn't feel right being run by some other shmuck.



Okay that may not have come out right... :D

no offence but thats kinda stupid

you really have to teach your kids the value of money

when you earn your money, you appreciate it
if you receive everything you want, you get spoiled (in 99% of cases)

the first car can be as well a used car, no need for a new one, neither a luxury one

well but if you're really a multi-millionaire and so are your friends and everyone in your neighborhood, then perhaps different rules apply :upsidedow

lmao, but the RS4 is like double the price of the BMW. The RS4 can only JUST beat the M3 in a drag race, but the M3 is faster round the track. (They done a test on top gear, each of the presenters had a grudge on which car was better). I'd rather buy the M3 and save a chunk of change, I still love the RS4 though . :2 cents:

For me it's piece of mind, my daughter will need to drive back form her moms house to mine (2 hour drive), at 16 she will be going to High school 4 hours a day then to college split shift.

I want her in a car with all the right safety features, navigation, panic buttons and so on.

For a 350.00 lease a month that is worth it to keep her safe.

you are kinda stupid

damn thats hard to believe a rwd car out handled the awd. I would like to see that Top Gear show.

Sounds like your daughter and the car are a perfect match!

I was taught the value of money. I was never given any. So I learned to earn it. :)

I have Audi A4 and really recommend it!

That may be, but the post you quoted isn't really all that stupid. For one thing, most cars made since the late 90's have most of the latest safety features required for any car to be considered "safe" these days. For another, I don't know if it's teaching "the value of money" so much as just plain work ethic and the feeling that the kid accomplished something for themselves. At 16 to 18 yrs of age a car is probably the single largest purchase a kid that age would ever make, for most people anyway.

When I was that age I was no different, I too wanted a car. My old man said "You want a car? Great, go get a job and earn one"

Which I did.

I was even able to take out a small loan ($1200 I believe) from my bank, which I paid off in 1 year. The car: a steel-blue '74 Chevelle Malibu. That was in 1980 that I bought it, and although it was my first car I can tell you it meant a great deal to me. A great deal.

I don't begrudge my dad one iota that he didn't just go out and buy me a car. I realize others have different circumstances in their family and lives etc, but it' s been my experience that every time I hear about a parent buying their kid a new car it always ends badly for all concerned. The kid invariably just doesn't value it like they would if they had had to work for it and aquire it themselves, and they end up smashing the gift up.

I'm sure there are exceptions out there, and exceptional kids. I just haven't known of any, that's all.

when your parents are millionaires that changes everything. You guys are living in the 80's.

She's in law school. She works harder than I do.

Maybe it shouldn't. Work ethic is a valuable thing. Instilling it in your kids is even moreso valuable.


That said, I'm sure Minte knows what he's doing.

it doesn't exist that show......there is the show where Jeremy Clarkson
raves about the 2007 RS4 and where he says several times...this is MUCH
better than any M3......b.t.w. the Audi isn't double the price of an M3
An Audi RS4 in the UK costs 50K pounds sterling......I don't believe you
buy a 2007 M3 in the UK for 25K pounds sterling :thumbsup

I love the Audi A4 Avant. In my opinion Audi has better quality than BMW and in Germany Audi was voted the best car brand 3 years in a row.

And to proof I'm not joking......here's the Top Gear Audi RS4 Test

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVwWybsFAQ4

Stick that in your sports exhaust :winkwink:

i would take the audi as well.
Dosent sound good what happend to you BradM.. but audi makes damn fine cars imo :)
edit... not that i ever owned one lol

I'd go for the BMW btw. Everytime. But if she wants an Audi, take her to the dealership and let her test drive it, then take her to the BMW dealership and let her test drive that too.

btw, totally cool what you did for her man! Much respect.

If I ever have kids, I'll be making a deal like that with them, such as the one you did with your daughter. Sounds like she's making you proud, she sure deserves a nice car. Sounds like you got a good one there!

Audi all the way... IMHO safer too

I have a BMW 3 series, very nice car, Audi's are nice but have to be maintained

I second that. She's going to think that everything will come easy to her if you keep buying her stuff like this.

I'm not getting her a Bentley. I am getting a decent quality,safe,reliable car.

She clearly knows the meaning of work. She is putting 18hours a week in the DA's office and is a full time student.

I prefer to look at it as incentive. Everynight you turn on the news and you see kids getting into all sorts of trouble. My daughter knows the rules,if she continues on the right path,she will be rewarded. If she doesn't she will just be another schmuck with a bunch of sorry excuses.

One semester when she was in highschool she fell of highhonors and the eclipse was parked for a full quarter.

I've never had to park her car since.

Yeah man, I think you had probably seen my Beemer when I was still driving it. What model/body style was the one that you had? If I remember correctly you also drove a Jeep for awhile.

BEEMERS totally rock!! They are one of my all time favorite cars. My little 325 fits me like a glove it's definitely a drivers car. In the cockpit all the instruments and gauges are in the perfect position for the driver, and with it being lowered with Bilstien racing suspension it really hooks up nice on the road. I can literally drive sideways down the road and then ease off on the accelerator a bit and bam it will pretty much straighten itself out. They handle pretty good with stock suspension but it's like night and day when compared with the bilstien's.

I sold a bone stock beemer to a buddy a few years back and he did a few mods. when he got it. Exhaust, ram air with K&N filter charger and a few others pretty much on par to what I have on my current beemer, but without the suspension upgrade. I had the opportunity to drive the car a few months back and although being quite a fun ride I could really notice the difference the suspension makes and not just in cornering. Acceleration with the stock suspension isn't as snappy due to body roll and it doesn't hook up nearly as nice in the corners.

You may have missed this post...
My later comments in this thread were pointed more towards all the parents out there who just go out and buy their kids cars as presents simply because they can afford them. From what I've seen of it that only serves to further spoil them, rotten in many cases.

I don't see Minte and his daughter falling into that category, he seems to have found a way to ensure she has a good work ethic, which is the main issue here at least as far as I'm concerned.

Bmw is more reliable.... audi + vw bahh problems

Tell her to go and get a job and earn her right to own one.