Be Still My Heart!

 When I met my darling wife way back in September, 1978, her father had two Audi 100LS's (one for him, one for the wife) like this one shown here........

Her dad was a very successful businessman, but with terrible taste in cars. Like the time he bought a Hyundai Sonata, when Hyundai's were junk, but the thing was he bought it in winter, so of course, he didn't ask if it had A/C. It didn't! There are other stories, but not at this time. Back to those two Audi's. Not cheap back in the day, but terribly unreliable and worth nothing as a trade in.

How things change.

These days Audi has great designs and they are as reliable as any German luxo brand and as costly to repair, when they aren't reliable. Pays your money and you takes your chances.

I love the Porsche Taycan EV........

Great looking in pictures and breathtakingly beautiful in real life. Costly? You bet. Hey, it's a Porsche.

Like the design, but need something a bit more budget friendly? Like who doesn't, except maybe Jeff Bezos, but he could buy the company. Anyway back to affordability and Audi. Please keep in mind that "affordability" is a relative term here and also relative when it comes to any EV. So recently Audi has unveiled their e-tron EV, the GT.

Early sketches showed showed the designers' dream car, but like most of these type of sketches, the final product had no chance of really looking like this.......

Probably a good thing. Now that the final product has been unveiled and is on its way to production, we can see that Audi actually improved on those wild sketches......

........and in doing so, gave us plebs a "poor" person's Taycan. Sure, it's kissing around a $100k, or maybe these days, elbow touching that dollar number. But, it's less than that gorgeous Taycan, so start saving.

Stunning and I can absolutely guarantee that if my father-in-law was still around, he would never buy two of these or even one. They look too good and they will be reliable. Two no no's for him.

Be still my heart........

......what a beauty. Now I have two dilemma's when my current lease is up........a Taycan or this new GT? If money factors into this decision, then maybe I can afford the wheels and tires, but even that might be tight. Why didn't I buy Tesla stock or Apple when no one had ever heard of them. Or maybe Zoom? Hey, if I was that smart, do you think that I'd be blogging each week?

Please let me suffer in silence.

Until next time.......