Hello From Minnesota (New S2 Avant Owner)

[ralleyquattro]

Congrats on increasing the number of Audi Avants on North American soil! I'm surprised there haven't been more imported. My RS2 was the first one in Canada which I've been enjoying for 10 years now.

I wonder if Mike brought his over the same time as you did. His is Volcano black.
Bottom line is there are more RS2s in North America.
Makes sence since there are almost twice as many RS2s build compared to S2 Avant.

Sad part is that untill recently S2 were being parted out left right and centre, especially on S2 forum where car can be sold in parts for a lot more than as a whole. Even RS2 were being parted out 10 years ago, remember Totts?
We can thank recent increase in value of classic/rare vehicles for the halt of madness and increase in values of nice examples.

[Canadian RS2]

Congrats on increasing the number of Audi Avants on North American soil! I'm surprised there haven't been more imported. My RS2 was the first one in Canada which I've been enjoying for 10 years now.

[ralleyquattro]

Congrats!!
The only other S2 Avant on this side of the pond I am aware of was in my garage till last year, but its still in Canada.
I have couple more lined up for import.

[pwbmotorsport]

Update!

The S2 made a safe journey over to the US! I was able to fly out this past weekend to Philadelphia and picked the car up from Jamie at Orchid Euro who facilitated the shipping and port process! My spare tail lights even cleared customs hiding in the spare tire well!!! Car drove very nicely the 1,350 miles home to MN! I was able to finally get under the car and scale up the amount of rust removal I will need to perform, and it's not bad!

Photos of the trip and some of the rest of my herd for y'all!

[gavs20v]

What a fantastic story ! Thanks for sharing and looking forward to see how it unfolds once you have it back on dry land.
Would love to see some pics of your other toys

regarding the headlights , The is a switch on the back of the unit which flattens the beam. Not entirely a cure for driving on the opposite side of the road but it’s a free , easy interim measure
All the best
Gav

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

Welcome aboard, thats some entrance and a great adventure thrown in picking up the S2 Avant!
Great pics too and a great collection of cars you have there.

[anthonys2]

What a great way into S2 ownership car looks very nice your photos are superb and remind me a of a very recent trip lol!! The Eilean Donan castle is a gorgeous castle look forward to your updates and that’s a nice collection of motors

[slacky]

Welcome, great intro & story, enjoy the only s2 avant in the U.S

[ringbearer]

My urs4 euro lights have a shutter that can be opened or closed for lhd or rhd. See if yours has the same. Nice ride and good work getting it to the states!

[pwbmotorsport]

Nice intro, car looks great! Going to be tough to hold back from mods, maybe OEM+ parts would be a nice compromise to keep it stock-ish and retain value and appearances but squeeze a bit more out of her than she rolled off the assembly line with all those years ago.

Are you going to get some LHD lenses for the headlights to avoid blinding oncoming traffic? I believe a member from the Netherlands has a good source, or had.

I am going to see if I'm able to aim the current lenses correctly first, as I was able to do this on my Skyline with relative ease. Not sure how much adjustment I will have in the stock housings though.

[PRY4SNO]

Nice intro, car looks great! Going to be tough to hold back from mods, maybe OEM+ parts would be a nice compromise to keep it stock-ish and retain value and appearances but squeeze a bit more out of her than she rolled off the assembly line with all those years ago.

Are you going to get some LHD lenses for the headlights to avoid blinding oncoming traffic? I believe a member from the Netherlands has a good source, or had.

[Greg_S]

Brilliant story and that’s quite a collection of cars you’ve got. Great photos from Scotland too, looks like a good stock example which is gonna be quite rare stateside.

[John.]

Now that's a proper fly/drive !!

[quattro estate]

What a great story and to finally end up with one of the best cars to own. When and if I sell mine, maybe you have a friend who would like one but I'm a little while away from that being happening.

[pwbmotorsport]

Wow, very nice pictures. Was just showing my wife the pics and laughing that I also would love to get a medieval castle in the backround of my car pics, haha daemn!

Hahaha! My other half was less impressed with how many times I stopped for photos, but I figured it was the last time the car is likely to be in Scotland!