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I love the A4 but I wouldn't want to own one. Consumer Reports gives the 2004 A4 almost all "Worse" ratings. Comparatively, the 2008 A4 gets all "Best" ratings and the cars get better every year in between. The A4 has good crash ratings (not that you want to find out).
Anecdote: A co-worker had a 2004 A4 that died in the middle of a funeral procession, had all the coil packs replaced (one at a time! three separate incidents of failure) and later gave up on the car after numerous repairs and traded it in for a 2006 model that didn't fair much better. My mechanic also said that the A4s are repair horrors.
I still love the car and will likely buy a used one given the AWD and how cheap they are used.....other option is a FWD Acura TL (manual) as I can't have another RWD car....
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1972 911T targa
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