What made you get an A6?

[naiku]

I am currently shopping for an Audi, and was looking at getting an A4, then I saw a couple A6 and so am now not sure which way to go. I have found an 05 A4 and an 05 A6 3.2 for about the same price. Both are loaded with options, so why would I choose the A6 over the A4?

I am not hugely interested in modding it, outside of wheels/suspension/chip and would like to put in some kind of AV system (I have 2 toddler age boys). So persuade me to buy an A6 over the A4?

I will be coming from an 04 Maxima to the Audi.

[Sheeple]

Hi there,

I had an 04 S4 Avant that my small family quickly outgrew. When the baby carrier was installed it could not be in the center of the back seat, if it was then the driving position was very uncomfortable. When put behind the passenger seat the passenger was miserable. When my son was big enough for a rear facing child seat same story but it was a little better for the passenger. When we switched to a forward facing seat he was able to kick the back of the passenger seat.

If your boys are in boosters already then you may be good to go in the A4, but if you like to have a bit more space go with the A6, an Avant if you can find one. (just cause I like avants)

Currently I have my C5 S6 and love it. I am shopping around for a booster seat for my boy now but I have another comming in December so I'll have no back seats.

Good luck with your choice.

Tim

[FrankA6]

for one, its bigger and looks alot better than an A4, its a higher class car, and 2 if you want to mod it, stay away from C6 A6's like 2005-up , there's really nothing for them, get an 04 2.7T A6, if you must get a 2005-and up get the 4.2, other than that, the price tag tells the truth, about 20K more than an A4 :)

[naiku]

Hi there,

I had an 04 S4 Avant that my small family quickly outgrew. When the baby carrier was installed it could not be in the center of the back seat, if it was then the driving position was very uncomfortable. When put behind the passenger seat the passenger was miserable. When my son was big enough for a rear facing child seat same story but it was a little better for the passenger. When we switched to a forward facing seat he was able to kick the back of the passenger seat.

If your boys are in boosters already then you may be good to go in the A4, but if you like to have a bit more space go with the A6, an Avant if you can find one. (just cause I like avants)

Currently I have my C5 S6 and love it. I am shopping around for a booster seat for my boy now but I have another comming in December so I'll have no back seats.

Good luck with your choice.

Tim

Thanks. My boys have a way to go before they are in booster seats, the oldest is 3, but they are both big and kicking the back of the Maxima seats. I am starting to lean towards the A6, and most likely a C6. Mainly because of the rear seat room, even though I will be the only person in the car 90% of the time. I do need the room in the back and the trunk that the A6 has over the A4.

[Buddahvw]

with the A6 you get full MMI, the Ipod conntector for example in the A4 is weak.

I am a big guy and the interior room was important to me...... the A6 is big and comforatable inside.

there are some minor mods avail; suspension, ect.........

good luck

[m-avant]

I went with the A6 for the additional room. Having 2 Recaro carseats, with 1 being rear facing - it was tough fitting both in my previous A4 comfortably. The trunk space is also a plus (if you carry a lot of gear). I knew it was time to switch to the A6 when my older child was able to kick the front seat. :-)

I do miss the gas mileage on the A4.

[naiku]

Buddahvw interior room is also important to me, I am about 6'2" and usually have the seat pushed way back. Minor mods are about the only thing I would likely be doing, I think if I wanted something for all out mods I would be looking at entirely different cars.

m-avant I have 2 car seats but both are forward facing. It sounds like the back of the A4 is probably going to be a bit small for what I need. I have a big double stroller that also needs to fit in the back, and any parent knows that small children come with a ton of stuff that you have to lug around. Looking like I might be checking out some A6's over the next few days.

[LA_AudiTR]

as sheeple and M_Avant have stated, if you have kids, its definitely a no brainer. you need to get the 6 over the 4. I myself came from an 2003 a4 and although the trunk was spacious, the back seat is so much roomier in the S6 than the A4 that I had.

i dont know if you are looking into avants or not, but if you have kids its definitely a must to consider as an option over the normal sedan.

avants

[Mcstiff]

Just a shame that there is no Turbo 2.7 A6 Avant.

[Kievskiy]

There is , but not in US, but we do have an Allroad option here

Just a shame that there is no Turbo 2.7 A6 Avant.

[audirs]

interior on the c6 a6 is defiantly more modern then the b7 a4 with the MMI interface. the layout of the center console is beautiful too and the extra room is a bonus. your about the same height as me. i test drove a c6 and i dont think i could put the seat all the way back and comfortably reach the pedals. ud have to be 6'6+ to need the seat all the way back.

[naiku]

I think this is going to come down to the test drive and whats available to me. I like the A4 and have found one that has every option I want. But, having looked at some pictures of the C6 the interior is very very nice, and if I can find a good deal on one then its going to be hard to take the A4 over the A6.

[cbock]

i was in the same boat as a few ppl here. i had a maxima that was getting long in the tooth and decided to get something new. i was interested in BMWs until i saw the complete lack of trunk space. i stumbled upon an s4 and fell in love. but, my youngest boy needed an extra large rear facing car seat that would render the front seat useless in an s4. so, i started looking for an a6. i was easily sold. the a6 has plenty of room in the back seat to accommodate the boys whilst leaving plenty of room in the front for two adults. and, the trunk is nice and large. also, with the same motor as the s4, i've been able to do some modding. it's a great compromise for me. my oldest son (5)loves the car.

[Kemer1]

I have had both of the cars you're looking at. A B7 A4 2.0T Quattro, and now a C6 A6 3.2 Quattro. Not even a close race. I did like the 6 disc changer in the dash in the A4 over the one in the glove box on the A6. Other then that the A6 wins hands down. It looks classier, is a lot rarer then the A4. They're all over the place...the A6, not so much. The trunk space is much better in the A6. It literally used to take me 2 trips to get all my groceries back home from the store. For the same money...I'd go A6 every time!

[Snowhere]

I was looking at the A4 Avant and like everyone says, it is too small. I have two kids, 6yrs and 16months, so it was obvious that the A4 would not do. It is actually smaller then the Suby Outback I was replacing. On the other hand, the A6 Avant is 11 inches longer and 9 inches wider then my Outback was. Some of the space is taken up by the side curtain airbags, so it does not seem as spacious as the car looks like from the exterior.

Like you, I did not really care about modding it for speed, I bought the A6 mainly to be our family car. I opted for the old 2.8 just for simplistics sake. It is not as fast as my Corrado, but that is not the point.

[CALL AAA]

I went with the A6 for the additional room. Having 2 Recaro carseats, with 1 being rear facing -

Apparently, your kids are BALLAS!
Honestly, if I they made the kid style Recaro seats in my size, I would put one in as the driver's seat.

What made us get an A6?
We had made some money off a home re-fi, and we thought about getting a nice car. We looked at 5 series BMWs, but they were a lot of money. I mean, they were very pricey for not a whole lot of car. We also looked into Acura TL S Types. After 3 minutes in the drivers seat, I realized that I was being sold a FWD nav system. So I told my wife that we should go look at Audis. She had never even considered one, but said yes anyways.

So we test drove a few '04s. The A4 was pretty nice, but we wanted something bigger. So we drove an A6 2.7T and really liked it. The dealer had an S-line in the middle of the showroom, and it would have been hell to get it out. So he promised that we would like the S-line even more. We took his word for it and paid for it. (I mean, if you can't trust a car salesman, who can you trust?) The other problem with that transaction was that the only Dolphin Gray S-line was just leaving Germany on a boat, so we would have to wait. And we did, for about a month. I tried like hell to get the dealer to let me drive it off the boat so I could put the first miles on it. (Ummmm, no.) When it finally came in, I was at sea, so I had to see pictures of this brand new car sitting at home in my garage.

Then my wife stole it. Yup, she flat out took the keys and told me to drive one of our other 3 cars ('92 Taurus SHO, '01 GTP and '95 300ZX) for my 35 mile drive to work. She was going to enjoy our fine new leather, XM radio and 265 HP with AWD goodness for her 2.5 (yes, 2 and one half) mile drive to work. Bullshit. I want an Audi too.

So after selling off some of the other cars, she got me an S4. Yeah, it was a Tip, but I drive 70 miles and a lot of that is in traffic, so a Tip, as gay as the S4 guys will say it is, made a lot more sense for me. I loved that car, especially with APR software.

OK, so now we have those 2 and the SHO, and we're talking about a family. What do we want for the baby-mobile? No mini-vans, no SUVs, no trucks. What does that leave? Wagons. Fast wagons. It only took me about 10 minutes to convince her that we needed an S6. It was pretty easy. The pictures did most of the work. We found a guy in Irvine who had (count 'em) 7 of them. We scheduled a test drive and bought it on the spot.
I absolutely love that fucking car. I am actually going to leave it stuff in my will.
But then a funny thing happened. We decided not to have kids. My first though after the decision? Whew. I won't have to worry about getting baby puke on that leather!
So that left us with 3 Audis and a SHO, which I sold shortly after buying the S6. (side note, the guy I sold it to blew it up the next day. I loved that car too, and I secretly want to buy it back)

Then gas prices shot up. The S4 was costing me a lot of money, for a really boring drive. So we did the most sacreligious thing I can think of, (aside from reaching up the Virgin Mary's robe) We traded in the S4 for a a a (give me a minute here) A CIVIC HYBRID. There it's out. I said it. We got rid of a 300HP AWD twin turbo sport sedan for a Civic with 4 tiny cylinders and a washing machine motor...and CVT.

So even though the S6 only comes out when we go biking or to get detailed, when people ask me what I drive, I tell them that I have 2 Audis, and one of them is an S6. I don't care if they know what an S6 is or not. I do, and that's all that matters. (well, that, and not being seen in my Civic)

[ryuuoh]

I moved from a 1990 100 quattro. The trans was failing. The A6 C5 Avant is actually bigger seating wise inside. Plus it looks much better, and is much faster. rolling it up at freeway speeds is amazing. It has the usual issues, which I'm taking care of as cash allows. I just did my cv joints (by myself) and put on my new wheels, 17x8 rs6 reps.

[LA_AudiTR]

Apparently, your kids are BALLAS!
Honestly, if I they made the kid style Recaro seats in my size, I would put one in as the driver's seat.

What made us get an A6?
We had made some money off a home re-fi, and we thought about getting a nice car. We looked at 5 series BMWs, but they were a lot of money. I mean, they were very pricey for not a whole lot of car. We also looked into Acura TL S Types. After 3 minutes in the drivers seat, I realized that I was being sold a FWD nav system. So I told my wife that we should go look at Audis. She had never even considered one, but said yes anyways.

So we test drove a few '04s. The A4 was pretty nice, but we wanted something bigger. So we drove an A6 2.7T and really liked it. The dealer had an S-line in the middle of the showroom, and it would have been hell to get it out. So he promised that we would like the S-line even more. We took his word for it and paid for it. (I mean, if you can't trust a car salesman, who can you trust?) The other problem with that transaction was that the only Dolphin Gray S-line was just leaving Germany on a boat, so we would have to wait. And we did, for about a month. I tried like hell to get the dealer to let me drive it off the boat so I could put the first miles on it. (Ummmm, no.) When it finally came in, I was at sea, so I had to see pictures of this brand new car sitting at home in my garage.

Then my wife stole it. Yup, she flat out took the keys and told me to drive one of our other 3 cars ('92 Taurus SHO, '01 GTP and '95 300ZX) for my 35 mile drive to work. She was going to enjoy our fine new leather, XM radio and 265 HP with AWD goodness for her 2.5 (yes, 2 and one half) mile drive to work. Bullshit. I want an Audi too.

So after selling off some of the other cars, she got me an S4. Yeah, it was a Tip, but I drive 70 miles and a lot of that is in traffic, so a Tip, as gay as the S4 guys will say it is, made a lot more sense for me. I loved that car, especially with APR software.

OK, so now we have those 2 and the SHO, and we're talking about a family. What do we want for the baby-mobile? No mini-vans, no SUVs, no trucks. What does that leave? Wagons. Fast wagons. It only took me about 10 minutes to convince her that we needed an S6. It was pretty easy. The pictures did most of the work. We found a guy in Irvine who had (count 'em) 7 of them. We scheduled a test drive and bought it on the spot.
I absolutely love that fucking car. I am actually going to leave it stuff in my will.
But then a funny thing happened. We decided not to have kids. My first though after the decision? Whew. I won't have to worry about getting baby puke on that leather!
So that left us with 3 Audis and a SHO, which I sold shortly after buying the S6. (side note, the guy I sold it to blew it up the next day. I loved that car too, and I secretly want to buy it back)

Then gas prices shot up. The S4 was costing me a lot of money, for a really boring drive. So we did the most sacreligious thing I can think of, (aside from reaching up the Virgin Mary's robe) We traded in the S4 for a a a (give me a minute here) A CIVIC HYBRID. There it's out. I said it. We got rid of a 300HP AWD twin turbo sport sedan for a Civic with 4 tiny cylinders and a washing machine motor...and CVT.

So even though the S6 only comes out when we go biking or to get detailed, when people ask me what I drive, I tell them that I have 2 Audis, and one of them is an S6. I don't care if they know what an S6 is or not. I do, and that's all that matters. (well, that, and not being seen in my Civic)

WOW - now thats an swesome story!

[04A6SLine]

CALL AAA thanks bro. i enjoy reading your writing..

anyways,, reason why i didn't pick out a G35 was cuz it has no room for my grandma and i can't go with another japanese car again.. it's just... not my style... besides japanese cars (most of them) their looks get old really fast... but not my C5.. i love it.. it's roomie enought for me to chill and enjoy the ride and i can take my friends around. and i won't be another dude driving a BMW ... benz are just for older people if you ask me..

[m-avant]

So we did the most sacrilegious thing I can think of, (aside from reaching up the Virgin Mary's robe)

good one.

[cbock]

Then gas prices shot up. The S4 was costing me a lot of money, for a really boring drive. So we did the most sacreligious thing I can think of, (aside from reaching up the Virgin Mary's robe) We traded in the S4 for a a a (give me a minute here) A CIVIC HYBRID. There it's out. I said it. We got rid of a 300HP AWD twin turbo sport sedan for a Civic with 4 tiny cylinders and a washing machine motor...and CVT.

gawd damn! that story was going SO well.....

[beckmaster]

i chose a A6 because, I was going to move to upstate/central new york where from November to March it snows almost every day. I needed AWD, and I hate SUV. I tried the BMW 3 series and it was way toooo small. The 5 series was way too expensive for what you got, plus their x-drive (AWD system) was not all that great at the time. I tried the subaru, and it was way tooooo ugly. I wanted something that had a little zip and still handled the daily snow. Lexus looks like its for old people, acura did not have the handling I wanted. The only real choice ended up an audi the question was which one. I tried the A4 and also find it a little to cramped. I am 6'2" and after 2 separate tests drives I found it way to cramped for any sort of commute longer then 15 minutes. The A6 was awesome. It was fast, had great room, less common on the road then the A4 and I think it looked great. I chose the 2.7T for the speed. Plus the modding options were always there. Seriously for about $10,000 you can take that 250hp car and bring it to 450hp. for only $700 you can get that car up to 318hp. I love it, it is great in the snow, better than any SUV I have driven including rav 4, a trailblazer, and Acura MDX. The car is damn fast. And every day when I open my garage to get my car out it puts a smile to my face.

Here is the sad thing. I think in about 12 months I will be selling it for something else. I just cant decide what.

[naiku]

So I am off today to look at an A4, but at the same dealer they have the following A6

http://www.skylineoffairfax.com/deta...o-3257800.html

Its listed on Autotrader for $22,999, I have printed the autotrader ad and will take it with me when I head over there later today. Just wondering if its a good deal, what I should look for etc?

Thanks.

[Mcstiff]

There is , but not in US, but we do have an Allroad option here

4178 reasons why an Allroad is not #1 on my list. Granted the S6 is 4024#.

[cbock]

i spent 4 months looking for my a6. when i finally found "the one" it was at skyline. i dealt with a guy named luis and he was very helpful. i never went there as i am in CA. but, everything worked out well and he helped get the car to DAS so it could be shipped.

good luck.

[Limen]

lots-o-space and Quattro is what brought me to the A6

[Kemer1]

So I am off today to look at an A4, but at the same dealer they have the following A6

http://www.skylineoffairfax.com/deta...o-3257800.html

Its listed on Autotrader for $22,999, I have printed the autotrader ad and will take it with me when I head over there later today. Just wondering if its a good deal, what I should look for etc?

Thanks.

Drive the two cars and I can almost guarantee you won't want the A4. Sounds like a good price. I just got my 05 A6 3.2 Quattro with 42K for about that price...and without NAV. I say good price...go for it! Make sure you get that thing Certified.

[Gigi]

'only reason is that the S4 (2.7T) was too small and i wanted that engine. I am 6'2" and 240.. need room and needed to be able to put 3 kids in the back.

[wofman]

Like slim said above -- S4 engine, much more pleasant inside. I actually came down to Lexus GS 400 (V8, 300hp, dropped, rims, etc.) vs C5. Manual transmission, was part of tie-breaker; chip, too.

(G - actually I'm same size except shorter - haha! And what is a Euro?)

[Gigi]

euro? what are you referring to? My post did not speak of euro :)
yeah 240... used ot be 220 msucle but packed on a few lbs :) Played rugby when I was in high school. Miss it.

[wofman]

G man -- you referenced a '09 "Euro" in a PM a few days ago (you didn't respond to my reply with same question).

As for my 240 lbs, and unlike the A6, I'm a bit like the classic Howling Wolf tune -- built for comfort, not for speed (song: "Some Folks, look like this; Some Folks, look like that; but don't you call me fat, 'cause I'm built for comfort, I ain't built for speed..."). And I guess that IS the point of this thread isn't it! A6 IS built for comfort AND speed.

[slim26]

To Be a little different...I know I wanted to go euro so it was between a BMW and the Audi. I choose the audi because here in Bklyn, and mostly NY you see mostly bemmers so i decided to go with the Audi and try to mod it.

[Gigi]

G man -- you referenced a '09 "Euro" in a PM a few days ago (you didn't respond to my reply with same question).

As for my 240 lbs, and unlike the A6, I'm a bit like the classic Howling Wolf tune -- built for comfort, not for speed (song: "Some Folks, look like this; Some Folks, look like that; but don't you call me fat, 'cause I'm built for comfort, I ain't built for speed..."). And I guess that IS the point of this thread isn't it! A6 IS built for comfort AND speed.

Gotcha big comfy dude:-) . By euro i meant a new European car whether a bimmer or Audi or Porsche or ...

[a6hcw]

I got an 1996 Audi A6 Quattro cheap, because it had a few problems! Many older Audis have so many problems, that they all tend to be undervalued. So, I looked for an older Audi with minor problems.

[doobiesdaddy]

2.7t is highly modifiable.
lots of room in the 2nd row seat. backward facing 3rd row seat for kids 3 and up.
I can fit 2 100 pound dogs, 2 toddlers, the wife and yours truly. Plus a box on the roof to haul the gear.
You can really get some great deals on the used allroad now.

[wofman]

Gigi -- but what about your modding affliction? You gonna do a 12 step program?

wofman

[Gigi]

iam not curable

[Kievskiy]

Yes, yes ANNND YES!!! A6 can be Reeaaaaly fast they do have 2.7t you know, hahahaha

... A6 IS built for comfort AND speed.

[Kievskiy]

c'on man, you are just being nice to us :)

iam not curable

[s6sputnik]

Given the choice , you should get the A6 for the room! Your family will fit better!