Hey thanks for all you opinions, about the Audi's I called and talked with my mechanic, hes a Volvo technician from Sweden and he works on all kinds of imports told me that the Audi is the most expensive car to work on period. Has this been your experience? There is a Black '97 A4 (2.8?) with the all wheel drive thing and has about 35K on it, the car is in excellent shape and I could see its advantage in the snow compared to the BMW, but my mechanic is scaring me away from it. I just can't get over the driving experience, I keep going back to test drive it and finally my dealer let me take it home for a couple of days and told me I could do the same thing with the Audi, this is getting very interesting.