I'm planning on getting a new car (second hand but new to me
). I currently own a '00 VW Passat TDI with 160k Km's and i don't wanna start shoving money into it when things start breaking. I figure i could sell it for 12500-13000 Euro's. Using that money and adding another 15000 Euro's, more or less, i want to get a low mileage, 2002 car. My choices are this: 2002 Audi S3 , 2002 Audi A4 3.0 Quattro or a BMW 330i(Ci). The 2002 A4 3.0 was my first choice as i find the B6 A4 simply gorgeous. This comes for about 25000 Euros with about 40000Km's. The thing that worries me about this one is the amount of gas it will eat considering it's a V6 (1L of 98 Octane = ~1$ here). The BMW is gonna eat less gas than the A4 because it's RWD but i'm not fond of the BMW interior quality (the Audi interior is much more nicer then the BMW's IMO), plastics and specially that ugly halloween orange lightning. The exterior is beautifull hands down but there are like... tons of 3-er BMW's in this country so it's nothing special. At the moment i'm really inching for the Audi S3 (last week it was the BMW so i don't know what i'll like in another week ). I found one from 2002 with 10000Km's witch is simply gorgeous. The price is a little high tough... ~30000 Euro's. It is Imola Yellow (i love that color on the S3 and on the RS4) with black leather Recaro seats (i hate the alcantara/leather combination witch uses yellow/black and is found on most yellow S3's). It has the RS4 18" alloys witch i like very much (problem is, the roads here are so bad i'll have to really be carefull not bending them and not [censored] up the tires). I will just let the pics speak for themselfs about the S3...
The gas mileage wouldn't be that bad either considering it's a 1.8liters motor and if u don't get on it too much to get the turbos going it's not much of a eater. If i were to get this S3 i would probably do just a MTM Stage 1 (chip -> 250HP/370NM), a cat-back exhaust and tint the windows (tinted windows would look really great on this Imola Yellow).
I never drove any of this cars and test driving them is really out of the question since i will be importing from Germany and i have to get my mind set on one car before leaving. I'm not looking for mad power levels, i just want a reliable daily driver that's got some go in it. I also found a 2002 A4 1.8T Quattro (190HP version) with the S-Line wheels for about 30000Euro's. Please give me your honest opinion/experience regarding these cars.
