The Shizah! (Audi and VW love!)

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... I decided that I had enough of my RSX and decided to spin it out and smash it into a guard rail (At least that's what the Government WANTS you to think) and anyway, that was a write off, and I can't lie, that car was my baby, I took such good care of it, except the leather, I cleaned it, but it got kinda worn on the driver side seat near my thigh. Anyways, once that was destroyed, I went looking for a new used car, I felt the sting of buying a new car with the RSX, and the ridiculous depreciation, so I figured I wanted something luxury, something a bit bigger, 4 doors, all wheel drive, and some power, my hunt lead me to the Audi A6. The bi-turbo 2.7T was a little less popular, but she's got the power to move the 3700+lbs of beast off the line and on the highway. I'm seriously considering chipping this thing and throwing on some new mufflers and take out the resonator (So it sounds like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RqHxu6Hh7M ) but meh, it will take away from the whole luxury aspect of it, and almost rice it out, but with 307hp, it's not exactly rice. LOL Here she is bone stock:

Here's my A6 with 19" rims:

And finally with 18" and tints (What it currently looks like, I broke a 19")

My friend just went out and got a Passat, very nice car I must say, it would have been nice to get Turbo Diesel with 4Motion, but I'm really digging the german engineering! Very similar insides, has a few features I kinda would like, like rain sensing windshield wipers and such. I really like these cars in darker colors, I'm thinking of repainting it to a nice dark blue, but honestly I think I'll just save the money and trade it in and get a new car all together, a proper paint job is about 4-6k from what I'm seeing... Maybe I'll pull a Maaco special..

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