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Is it ironic that my daily is a 96 C200 Benz with now 242kms and is 100% faultless?*

Only thing currently wrong is the battery in the remote locking died last night but I have two keys...

*Was owned by a MB mech for 12? years as the wife's car before I bought it...

Rough break with the Audi. I've looked at German cars longingly for years, but I think if I bought one it'd have to be an old one (mid '90s or earlier) so every time something broke I could say to myself "it's 20 years old, something was bound to fail..."

The euros are tempting, but out of factory warranty they are a bit of a gamble. You can get an extended factory warranty on most if the original hasn't lapsed and the car hasn't done too many ks. I faced a similar scenario last year but piked on the euro (S5) I was looking at and went for the Lexus (ISF). No issues to date.

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things are bound to break once I start to wind some power into it anyway.

went for a cruise around sydney with these today, that skyline is surprisingly quick - and i would say the S4 will take the c63 once tuned

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