Any other A45 owners come from a C63 and missing the V8?

[Charliesum]

Nose heavy!!!!!!!
I had an audi s3 once which had the rs4 2.7tt engine in it running about 470bhp
Was ballistic in a straight line but not great otherwise

[Bradders901]

nice - was that the Kim Collins ex car - silver S3?

[ecain63]

Bradders, you still got your 507?

[Charliesum]

Yes bradders it was
S3 with rs4 underpinnings
Went like a rocket, nice install and sounded great, mind you if you know Kim ,nothing was cheap!!!

[HotJambalaya]

christ, thanks for screwing up my decision of getting rid of the C63.... I'm already struggling with what to replace it with...

Part of me is contemplating something off the wall like a Corvette Stingray, or buying a cheap X5 running it as a tractor for a couple of years.

Then again, I had on and off been planning for years to get a 1968 Mustang Fastback, perhaps now's the time

[ecain63]

HotJambalaya said:

christ, thanks for screwing up my decision of getting rid of the C63.... I'm already struggling with what to replace it with...

Part of me is contemplating something off the wall like a Corvette Stingray, or buying a cheap X5 running it as a tractor for a couple of years.

Then again, I had on and off been planning for years to get a 1968 Mustang Fastback, perhaps now's the time

Were you looking at A45s then as an alternative?

[HotJambalaya]

ecain63 said:

Were you looking at A45s then as an alternative?

Vaguely, I'd been down to Mercedes Colindale, but they were such a bunch of disorganised, offhand cockmonkeys that I binned the idea....

At the moment I'm looking at a B class or a BMW X1 as a family runabout, and something for me, maybe an old elise and hang onto the rest of the cash for now...