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Replying to: blckislandguy (Jun 12, 2007 2:47 am)
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Replying to: blckislandguy (Jun 11, 2007 6:59 pm) The allroad is due to come back. Probably won't happen. |
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Replying to: kgary (Jun 12, 2007 3:48 am)
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Replying to: blckislandguy (Jun 12, 2007 7:27 pm)
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Replying to: reality2 (Jun 13, 2007 1:41 pm) |
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Replying to: reality2 (Jun 13, 2007 1:41 pm) Hyundai is another example. They're trying to compete with high-end cars, unsuccessfully so far.
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. . .elsewhere (Europe) does well. Often Audi outsells BMW in the homeland. The German cars, depending on who you talk to, all have less than steller reps -- except for their reputations reported "from behind the wheel." My wife has a BMW, her second, I have an Audi, "our" 28th, we have also had 2 Passats and a Jetta, too. Under a variety of circumstances, I would have no problem owning (or leasing) cars from Audi, BMW and VW -- and probably no issues with Mercedes either. On the other hand, I "almost" leased an Infiniti M35x last time, and I do believe I would have also enjoyed that experience. Sometimes I think people are trying to find reasons to talk themselves INTO or OUT OF certain decisions. I could repeat, #29, as an Audi, next time. I wouldn't hesitate. I will not pay more for an A6 Audi (substantially more) than a BMW 535xi or an Infiniti M35x. I would almost certainly be delighted with ANY of them. |
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Replying to: cdnpinhead (Jun 14, 2007 1:58 am)
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Replying to: reality2 (Jun 14, 2007 7:09 pm) Well, I certainly agree, in terms of the cars the companies build. My only intent in using the two names anywhere in the same proximity was to try (appparently unsuccessfully) to point out that both suffer from perceptions that have very little to do with fact. Audi is every bit as reliable as any other European brand and within spitting distance of any brand, if we are to believe what we read here. Hyundai does in fact have some pretty impressive build quality & early-ownership reliability data, with only two brands better in one of those categories (can't remember which). Your post certainly illustrates that emotion can run high where cars and brands are involved. Some of that emotion (in others) is why many people wouldn't be caught dead in either an Audi or a Hyundai. To them, Audis will always be unreliable death traps with runaway acceleration & Hyundais will always be rust-ridden trouble-prone cheap crap from Korea. For many of the rest of us, not so much.
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Replying to: cdnpinhead (Jun 15, 2007 1:33 am) My Audi dealer, coincidentally, owns an Acura, Hyundai AND Infinti dealer franchise. The Acura and Hyundai actually share the same location -- but not the same buildings. When "helping" a friend look at new cars, we did end up testing the new highest zoot AWD Santa Fe and the new RDX. The RDX was "the winner." Until you looked at a nearly $10,000 price premium for it. If you dumbed down Acura or looked at the Honda CR-V, the Hyundai certainly seemed to tell a better story. The new larger CUV from the company with the "bent H" has tested better than the Lexus at least twice recently. Likewise, my 2005 Audi now over 35K miles is tight as new and if they keep screwing them together like this (and you can almost bet they will get better at it), Audi has no worries in the reliability sweepstakes -- especially compared with other Europeans. Who knows Infinities or whatever from Japan MAY be better assembled and of higher quality. Heck, even the new CTS may be a paradigm shift -- but right now, Audi makes durable and reliable cars that can and do compete the world over. I read somewhere in fact, that the Audi and BMW and BUICK cars in China are all looked upon as, more or less, equals and a notch or three above anything from Japan. If you like the "feel behind the wheel" you will not be disappointed by any of the cars from Germany. If you are concerned about them leaving you in the lurch -- well, none of these Germans are on top of CR's highest reliability model list (Mercedes was 36 out of 36 recently, in fact.) If you buy your cars based on these lists, seems to me you will stay away from European cars, pretty much, altogether. Get the car you enjoy driving, like looking at with the features you want -- every mfg produces a klinker from time to time. If in doubt, buy an extended warranty. I'm not YET ready to go to Hyundai -- but based on my driving of the Santa Fe, they certainly could be joining the ranks of near premium and perhaps even premium mfgrs. I would, btw, argue that you WON'T ever be caught dead in an Audi -- they're that safe. I agree, is the point, with cdnpinhead. |
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