AUDI'S - Let's talk about them

So I started my fascination with cars at an early age just like most boys in America. I used to see my dad work on cars and come in smelling like motor oil and gasoline. Weirdly I used to love that smell, to the point I now still oddly enjoy a small whiff of gas when I'm at the pump. It probably helps that I grew up really close to a racetrack that was active every Friday night in the summer called I-30 speedway.

So when I was 15 my dad offered me a 1989 honda accord lxi, I learned how to drive standard on that car but not before I ruined the clutch. A day later I got my intro to replacing the clutch and lowering the transmission. I was super happy to have that car, I came from a very poor family and it meant the world to me. It meant freedom and the beginning of a life without family around every corner. Self-reliance is staple of growing up where I'm from. It's where you start to make real mistakes and learn from them.

So I drive this car until I got really interested in the 1998 honda civic si. I traded my paid off car as a downpayment for a civic and drove that for about 6 months until my bank pulled a fee and my insurance wasn't able to pull out of my account. Instantly they started a repo order. I went the next year of my life hiding my car because it was all I had as I lived with friends on their couches and couldn't lose it.

One day I got a minor traffic ticket and being a good citizen went to my court date, when I returned to the parking lot the repo guys had been watching for my court date and nabbed my car. So now here I am with no car, I have to walk home from the courthouse and pay a traffic ticket when I don't even own a car anymore.

So I get a tax return a few months later and instead of investing my money into a new car I hastily spent it on a new laptop and midi controller to make music. It sounded dumb at the time but it resulted in me starting a music career that took me across the country in style playing for large nightclubs and really cool festivals. A few years after my music career slowed I found myself needing another car. This time I was convinced I wanted something cooler, so I got a day job and saved up $1,500 and went to a used car lot and picked up a 1998 acura integra, it was an automatic and I ragged that car out so fast. I payed it off and quickly moved on to an acura rsx type s with a 5 speed.

That car hit a pot hole that ended up causing it to go into the shop for 3 weeks, and when I got the car back it was totaled, the dash ripped out of it, steering wrecked, screens missing, exterior body damage you name it. Turns out the shop let an employee rag the car out and I challanged them. They said it came that way and that they took photos the day it arrived, I called the police and forced them to turn over the photos to myself and the police and take a statement.

Well, it turns out that the metadata showed that they took the photos that day and had lied to me and the police, needless to say the guy was arrested, fired, and the company cut me a check. Also Gieco cut me a check and I ended up getting this sweet 2011 audi a4 2.0 premium plus w/6 speed and sports package.

I love this car, it feels like a dream to have it and I will never buy another brand. The handling in this thing is king. I constantly hear people say audi's are bad cars but my experience has been nothing but awesome. Besides the car looks so aggressive.

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Daniel Kichen

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