Love my GS350 F-sport but getting pulled towards 14' Audi A7 with TDI engine

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09-02-13, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by BarrettF77

While not indicative of a new car. It's the best example currently of how those cars age should you keep your vehicles that long. If anything, their quality has gone down since 2006 area. And Audi does consider oil burning to be normal for some reason in their vehicles. Something like a quart of oil for ever 3-5k miles. I personally don't find that very comforting.

Yeah I wouldn't buy an Audi, but I'd lease one.

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I owned a '97 Grand Cherokee Limited for about 5 years and that vehicle was in the shop about every week. Rotors, tranny, sunroof motor, A/C, Rear axle replacement, and you get the idea. I loved that car dearly and had many fond memories in it despite the amount of grief it gave me. Perhaps that was because I was in college during that time period. But at the 75k mileage marker, I sold it off and changed brands.

My sister had a 99' GC Loredo and she hardly had any issues with hers. So it's a mixed bag. But generally to this day, most people have a lot of maintenance on them. Still a fun car to drive though

Yeah we love the vehicle, its a shame we've had all these little niggling problems. We're shopping for another one, hoping that we might have more luck. There just isn't anything else half as nice at the pricepoint. Ours is almost out of warranty, so we need to decide whether we should drop $3k in a warranty and tires or just replace it.

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09-03-13, 07:19 AM

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a good friend of mine had a 2010 s5 (v8) and kept running into problems with it after the 15k mark. at first it was small things like just eating up oil, squeaky clutch, vibrations, etc. it got progressively worse when the check engine light came on because of carbon build up. then it was "electrical problems". the car is working great for now but he has been babying it the whole time after all the issues. it isn't very fun driving a car that you have to worry about pushing.

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09-03-13, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Rexus300

I know how it feels. I had to lemon my 2011 BMW 535 xdrive because of this damn vibration on the highway. POS. I hate BMW and would not buy one in more then 10-15 years or ever.

Good news!!!
GS-F has been spotted. NEW PICS from today!

http://lexusenthusiast.com/2013/09/0...tted-in-japan/

This is a coincidence. Its reminding me to hold out for this beast.

wow very nice. i'm sure the bumpers will change as these are just prototypes, but excited for this!

just has to be priced right IMO, can't be anywhere near the m5/e63 as it just won't sell if you can get an m5/e63 for same price.

i think 75k for a loaded one is a good price.