Thanks Jason!

Agree. This speaks to us automotive heads who are/were interested in all things automotive, not just the latest and craziest hyped up supercars

city driving and parking does that, you could be gentle and careful as much you want, but you will end up with bumps, scratches etc sooner and later by others. i hate that, having non functional suv driver (woman with issues) next to my parking space, for example. makes you mornings worse, when discover new damage on paint regularly.

@@izoyt Is the comprehensive insurance situation just as bad as it is with mandatory insurance in the UK? Here on the continent most cars that are

@@Scouter98 most people in the UK do have fully comp insurance the thing is with they way the insurance system works it is not worth claiming for small little bumps as loosing your no claims discount will likely cost you more than just paying out of pocket to fix stuff and older cars like this the most minor of scratches will write them off instantly.

My first thought as well. I was shocked how worn out the interior and paint can look after 62k. Our 2011 passat has about 73k miles on it (highline) and carries around my family. We live in a big city where 90% of the driving is done. It looks like a new car compared to this.

Mate! So true! Also, who the hell ate that spring!

A reliable BMW.......

Or until ulez comes to you

Untill they make factories run on rainbows :p

I bought a 1996 Audi A4 1.9tdi auto last May it's currently on 163,000 miles and currently doing 1000 miles/wk It drives like a new car and returns 44mpg, I'm a big old Audi fan

3,800 miles a year! Why would you buy a diesel??

As a C5 2.4q owner i must ask where that jump in quality exactly is

@@Scouter98 I’ve had several C5’s. They are great cars but especially body parts are a lot more rust resistant on the C6.

@@ToyotatechDK funny that you mention rust. Yeah, C5s have rusting fenders and the doors are prone to rust because of a unfortunate door design that traps moisture. However, i have never ever seen a C5 that would need to have the rocker panels (or thresholds as some say) replaced because of rot, which is the issue for the vast majority of C6's that drive on salty roads. So to summarize C5's rust where you can see it, but its the other way around on the C6, that's why so many are getting scrapped these days.

@@Scouter98 I was working for Audi when the C6 replaced the C5 and we all felt there was a big drop in cabin quality and loss of overall perceived solidity with the model change, so I see where you’re coming from. What you don’t see as a new car driver/owner though, is what’s happened underneath, so with hindsight maybe Audi spent that saved money elsewhere and wisely on durability and longevity?

The C6 A6 are such solid cars. In my opinion they’re more solid and well built than the newer cars. It just has a bank vault heavy feel that hasn’t really been replicated since in my opinion. Top quality.

James is the man !

Watch the T-roc video, it's a banger

I really enjoyed that bit. Who hasn't turned around at some point to look at something interesting? Lol

Yeah the rear of this looks very similar to the A3 5dr 2004-12.

it seems to have gotten worse, at least in my rural corner of England. I don't know who these people are but new cans and wrappers appear almost every day

Trouble is, if no one buys new cars then the economic impact on car producing nations would be massive

@@baggierols73 Maybe they would have to look at making new cars better value. Prices are now utterly crazy.

@@baggierols73 They need to make affordable cars then.

@@baronvonjo1929 Lighter, less complicated, more efficient, and less destructive to the planet. That would be a good start.

Totally agree!

Yes the A2 is an up-and-coming classic. It was ahead of its time when it came out. Lightweight aluminium body, small outside dimensions but big feel inside, quirky styling that still looks good now. Still see one or two around on my commute.

Great! Mine is the same car (2004) and I'm on 262,000 miles. There's one on youtube "car throttle" channel that had 500,000 miles on it still running ok. I'm hoping to get 300k+. I'm investing in a timing belt kit soon, I have faith she has loads of miles left, engine hasn't skipped a beat! Like you say, some of the other stuff needs attention after 19 years, but it's DIY do-able! Puts some much younger cars to shame!

@@itchyscratch3829 your so right, the pump duse diesel will go for at least one person’s lifetime.

That's the car I have. Currently running great at 262,000 miles (421648km). I'm hoping to reach many more miles, I've seen one with 500,000 miles on it (804672km) still running ok. KZfaq 'car throttle' channel.

same with BMW too

Same with Ford!

No BS cars, well put. I miss them.

@Teamgeist 3, and yes, I wanted it. I'm not sporty and like space.

Do you have to negotiate with it? does it ever go on strike?

@@charliewalters536 No. Only when the battery was almost dead after the winter it was slow as hell. This is our second 206CC and the roof has the least issues. The first one had the weirdest electrical ground issues though. Wouldn't stop the motor when tuning off ignition when radio and/or lights where still on. Never found the ground issue but replacing the broken rear light bulb fixed it..

For the 4 years ive had my leon from new, i can say ive had no mechanical issues at all! Only issue was an infotainment glitch , which a factory reset i did myself fixed.

ICE is cleaner everywhere after you take into account the MASSIVE effect of the cost of EVs. Most people don't even know the multitude of ways that EVs cost us TRILLIONS (in the scale of Europe or USA). Power grid works needs, power plants, millions of chargers (including manufacture, installation, maintenance and periodic replacement), absolutely horrendous amounts of subsidies and tax breaks, lost revenue from gasoline and diesel taxes, massively increased vehicle costs, increased road wear, increased injuries and deaths, and massive recycling costs plus damages to the environment to neglected recycling. Those add up not only to an already horrendous trillion or two, but MANY trillions! For nothing. All of that is being purposefully hidden from us to enable the EV corruption scheme. They're lying to us when they purposefully ignore all that and its world-changing, society-destroying costs and effects. I tell you as an economist: the effect of those horrendous costs really are society-crushing. Then there's the factors of huge losses during charging, losses from battery heating&cooling needs, losses from EV use (driving&charging) when battery temp is not optimal, etc. which are not taken into account properly so far in any calculations of EV CO2 emissions.

@@pistonburner6448 no one cares about the energy that needed for the production. I talk about the emissions of a petrol or a diesel car against the emissions of a powerplant that charges an EV.

@@Giorgos_Efstatoglou What do you mean "energy needed for production"? I mentioned many different extremely important financial considerations, did you miss all of those? And the emissions calculation issue I mentioned?

@@pistonburner6448 we agree but the elephant in the room is the emissions of a car. And in not nuclear powered countries petrol cars are far more green

@@Giorgos_Efstatoglou What? "Emissions of a car"? That's what I'm talking about: emissions. Do you not understand that if you spend MANY TRILLIONS and bankrupt a country that it directly has a catastrophic impact on the ability to do anything to reduce greenhouse gasses?! (And destroys everyone's quality of life...even for certain kills massive amounts of people!) Look at Germany's "Energiewende" in which they spent billions and billions to 'transform' their energy sector to green energy but the result was NO reduction in overall CO2 emissions and electricity prices skyrocketed to horrific levels (even before the war)! That is an absolutely huge catastrophe, and all of it was done in the name of climate change...not even nearly everything they do for climate change automatically is actually good in its effect at all. Much of their "green policies" do the OPPOSITE! Like EVs, which are a negative thing and they're only pushing them because of foreign nations paying politicians to do it and domestic corruption too. Since EVs are not meaningfully lower in CO2 emissions even before those absolutley gargantuan financial catastrophes, that makes the case for EVs completely ridiculous.

Suspect that is the plan, price them off the road. Price owners into public transport or a new car, even if you can't afford a new car and public transport doesn't actually fit your life.

That's the point. New EVs can can drive themselves ... or refuse to let you drive them. _It's all about control, not climate!_

@@ThexMJT _It's all about control, not climate!_

@@MisterMonsieur Well it is about climate (making city air cleaner, which is a good thing) but the government has set stupid targets and no doubt tied funding to these stupid targets and also reduced funding to councils overall, so they need a way to generate this lost income.

I think ULEZ will lead to a bunch of cars like this becoming available cheap to those who live outside the zones.

That would piss me off. My 4Runner is about to be 24 this year and just reached 220,000 miles last week. So proud of it. I want my cars to last a long time cause I get really attached.

What engine did he have? My dad had a Touran with the 1.9 TDI, he sold it at 230k kms but I checked and it now has 400k and still going strong on its original engine.

Love those! What's your mileage up to?

@@itchyscratch3829 200k km but the milage counter stopped working 10 years ago haha, best quess is 400k and runs like new

1M are the best of the 4. A Friend drives a blue top sport tdi 150 stage 1 with a bit over 400k kms. Only one turbo and one clutch.

@@lollypop9580 they're reliable cars if you look after them. Mine is a standard TDI 150k miles on the original engine, clutch and turbo. The bodywork and underside are rusting. But that's because the roads here have a lot of salt during the winter.

Audi called their estates, Avant.