[greglepore]

My s/o has an '05-very nice driving car, would prefer that she have bought an '03 or prior as the air suspension in the later cars can be a $$$ pit. If the price is right on the '01, and you can live with the outdated infotainment, go for it. The quattro is wonderful, the car itself is an amazing combination of light weight (relatively) and luxury size, and it is a pleasure to drive on any surface.

Sure, there are some unnecessary gizmos that can break (trunk lid has motors, electric parking brake motors etc) but all of the 2000's lux cars are this way. On that topic, I really feel that late 80's-mid 90's german cars were sort of the peak-the last built to a true germanic flavor as opposed to a more vanilla world standard, but most of those are a bit long in the tooth now and many can't live with the lack of geegaws.