When will I be able to buy a RS4?

[ctolladay]

If I save £5000 a year when will I be able to afford a RS4?

My best guess is that in 5 years time a RS4 would be about £25000. Therefore I would have saved £25000 at £5000 a year. What do you lot think? Do you agree that in 5 years a new car will halve in value?

Views?

[rj scotty]

You can get a series 1 Rs4 avant for £25000 all day long.

just do a search on the trader

cheers

rich

[ctolladay]

Sorry, should have specified. The latest RS4. A 2007 model.

[s2dude]

Sorry, should have specified. The latest RS4. A 2007 model.

Kind of hard to predict as it depends on residual used car prices for prestige cars at that time.
Though I would say a 97 RS4 may be worth more than £25k in 5 years time. Nearer £32.5k +/- £2.5k...though I may be wrong here!!
For sure, if the government starts putting a real squeeze on big cc high emissions cars then their value will plummet as popularity will decline.
This would be a good scenario for us enthusiasts though running costs would be even more steep I imagine
Imagine petrol at say £2 per litre

[rj scotty]

So now would be a good time to buy a series 1 rs4

Look at rs2 prices, I can't see them droping much.

[Kylie]

So now would be a good time to buy a series 1 rs4

Look at rs2 prices, I can't see them droping much.

broadly agree - the only doubt is the rarity value of the RS2 compared to the RS4 - anyone know the production stats of the two ?

[BrianSmith_S2]

For sure, if the government starts putting a real squeeze on big cc high emissions cars then their value will plummet as popularity will decline.
This would be a good scenario for us enthusiasts though running costs would be even more steep I imagine
Imagine petrol at say £2 per litre [/QUOTE]

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15372&highlight=ultimate

Last time i filled up with BP ultimate 102 last summer it already was over £2.40 a litre . How much is it now ? any one given it a go recently?

Brian

[andrewd]

This thread on PH reckons that CAP Monitor is predicting the B7 RS4 to retain 58% of its value after 3 years / 30 000 miles which puts 'em at about £29 500.

[Coxy]

Audi's have about as good a residual value on the used car market as you can get, and S/RS models have an even better residual value at that.
The RS2 is a different kettle of fish compared to a series 1 RS4. Audi main dealers still stock Series 1 RS4's but the RS2 is more of a collectors model especially as it's now almost considered a classic being over 10 years old, and as the RS2 was a collaboration with Porsche, it will always fair well for resale value as long as it has being maintained and not ragged to death!
I'd say stuff getting a Series 2 RS4 cos by the time you've got enough money to buy one, you'll want the RS5 anyway!!

[ctolladay]

From reading the PH thread I've got a nice warm feeling that in a few years one of these will be mine. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aaahhh ah.

[Jay]

??!!

I'm not overly sure why you want one? are you happy with 400BHP and fairly low torque??!!

I've got to agree they look, sound and handle well to the point where I put a deposit down but after investigation on tuning with the like of Mike at DMS and Kim at QS with regard supercharging etc... nothing happening bar a small chip tune so i pulled the deposit!:mischeif:

The B5 RS4 is much more tunable, anything turbo'd is the way to go

Jay

[Jonas_R]

Hmmm in Denmark a brand new Audi RS4 is 170.000£ , ohhh yeah you gotta love the 180% tax the add on the cars here

It must be nice to be able to buy a RS4 for 25.000£, i paid 14.600£ for my s2. That was 5600£ for the car in Germany and then I had to pay 9000£ to the goverment in tax to get it on danish plates.

/Jonas R.

[europeanme]

Hmmm in Denmark a brand new Audi RS4 is 170.000£ , ohhh yeah you gotta love the 180% tax the add on the cars here

It must be nice to be able to buy a RS4 for 25.000£, i paid 14.600£ for my s2. That was 5600£ for the car in Germany and then I had to pay 9000£ to the goverment in tax to get it on danish plates.

/Jonas R.

What the f***!!!!.....
I thought Canadian government was bad!!...I was wrong!!...

[Jonas_R]

Ohhh yeah in Denmark we get screwed in the ***....

[SR71]

I drove the B7 RS4 yesterday.

I have to say that, whilst impressive, it was not as fast as it needed to be for that kind of money.

Sounds lovely over 5.5K rpm and pulls without a perceptible decrease in acceleration all the way to the redline (so much so I was off the rev-limiter a number of times in the first few minutes) but the associated torque in the mid-range is appalling.

Maybe I'm just used to a geared-down ZX12R which accelerates from 50-150 in ~6secs but you have to stir the gearbox to take advantage of the power inspite of the big displacement.

It looks awesome, and for transporting 4 people down to the Alps for a weekend snowboarding you couldn't do any better (as long as it was de-restricted!), but in terms of outright performance, it didn't do it for me.

Turbo-charged cars are the way to go.

I'd be interested in a speed-through-the-gears comparison of a B7 RS4 and various tweaked S2's/B5 RS4's. I hazard a guess there isn't much difference.