Thought folks might dig on this.

http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/1624/

 

Nice car, too bad every V8 Audi is at least $60,000. I'm sure this one will be much higher than that.

 

Too bad Audis are notorious for electrical and gadget glitches.

Their interiors are top notch, though.

 

I like Euro Audi, they're pretty good cars. We get crap.

 

Ummmm, an Audi A8 is an Audi A8 whether it goes to Hanover or Harrisburg. They come out of the same German factory.

 

cool rims

 

Europe get diesels and overall quality of Euro Audi's is a lot better. I know many people in Europe who owned Audi and they were all very happy with the cars. I can't say same thing about owners in the USA.

 

Looks pretty good... but not excellent

 

Well, to my knowledge, Audi doesn't manufacture cars in North America - they all come out of Germany. So while there may be powertrain variations, I don't see how it's possible for overall quality to differ when everything is coming off the same assembly lines.

"Deiter, dieses irgendjemandes vorangegangen für Amerika. Lassen Sie uns unglue die Ordnung Bits."

"Hey, Deiter, this one's headed for America. Let's unglue the trim bits."

 

 

I lived in Europe for 15 years so I know thing or two about Audis. Volkswagen group (Volkswagen and Audi) are very popular with people from Serbia, no matter where they live and I spoke with many of them who live in the USA and Canada. So I'm not making anything up.
Last time I was in Serbia in 2005 I noticed many Audis on the streets, including many 1980s models. I can't say same thing about the USA.

 

I wasn't suggesting you are.

But what one person has heard second hand hardly qualifies as a scientific study. There's no way that the quality discrepancies could have been anything more than coincidence, because as I mentioned, all these cars come out of the same factories in Germany.

So I would simply aruge that some Audis have problems and some do not, no matter what part of the world you live in. You could probably talk to people in Eastern Europe and find a few that had problems with their cars, just as you could find people here who would swear by Audi reliability.

 

Perceived Reliability?

 

Its not just one person, many of them complained on quality of Volkswagen group (Volkswagen and Audi).

Just because car is good in Europe doesn't mean it will be good in the rest of the world. I mean, Yugo was crap in the USA, but I saw many of them in Serbia with very high mileage and many of them were 20-25 years old. My cousing in Serbia still has 1979 Yugo Scala 101 that he got brand new.

 

Define "good."

If the A8s (for example) going to different parts of the world all come out of the same factory, how can there be any difference between them, other than people's individual experiences. Perhaps regional perceptions differ; but I would argue it boils down to individual experiences.

Unless road and weather conditions lead to premature wear and breakdown issues in North America that aren't experienced in Europe.

 

Reliable. Most of VWs and Audis have problems over 100,000 miles, especially electronican problems which are not cheap to replace.

 

Which takes us back to my first post >> Too bad Audis are notorious for electrical and gadget glitches.