Hello All,
I have a question. In the next 12-18 months we will be replacing our weekend car. I am a long time Audi driver (20+ years) and our current Audi is a '04 S4 and have owned 3 S4's (C4, B5,B6) plus a gaggle of other Audi's including a '84 Ur-q, all of which have has some tuning done to them. We are a family of decent means, but nothing crazy, but I am also frugal which means I do 99% of the maintenance and repairs on our cars myself. I had always though our next car would be a B7 RS4 but I have always thought that the QP was a very pretty car with a great motor so I have been looking at them and see that they are on par, price wise, with the RS4. Our two past S4's accumulated approximately 8K miles a year and 85% of that is on the highway, the QP would be accumulate less mileage because I just do not see it being a good car to bring to VT for skiing and we use the Audi every other weekend during the winter to head North. With all that said would buying a mid '00 QP just be stupid? I tend to keep a car till 100K miles, would a QP stand the test of time?

Obviously I am in no rush but I wonder if I should even consider a QP as a weekend car or stick to my plan of a RS4.

Cheers,
Jim

 

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not a lot of activity (ever) - perhaps "only Italian spoken here"

ya might post your question here :

http://www.maseratilife.com/forums/quattroporte/

it's more, uh, active

 

A QP, imo, will stand the test of time as there are plenty of cars in the upper 70k-80k miles in them now. The estimated miles per year for your would be pretty easy for this Maserati.

But, the keyword I heard was frugal and that is a relative term. If your maintenance includes clutches and other things like that, then it may work for you. But, I believe you still need certain Ferrari/Italian tools to to "set" things, for instance, after a clutch is installed.

I personally use the QP as a family hauler (thank god for temperate weather here) year round with 2 car seats and has done well for me thus far without any major dent in the wallet.

And it is my opinion that the longer a car is kept, the more "value" you will get out of it.

 

Hi
Welcome to this forum site. It is a best forum site for always to answer your several types of doubt and provide very useful information that helps me a lot........., but at present I am not capable to give you any statement. I think you have to make contact with your colleagues for better answer. I am sorry for that.
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