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Today, we thought we'd make a quick video discussing what's the most reliable

Audi built within the last 20 years - Hold on one second Trav okay so back in

1970 Audi hit the US market. They were fun, they were sporty, they had the rally

cars and whatnot but they were known as the sinkhole for service. And what's that

mean? Well that means that these things were always in the shop. But in recent

years, if you're looking to buy an alternative to a Benz or a BMW you go

with an Audi and they've gotten way better as time has gone by

They are incredible especially when they came out with that S line they really

killed the market and BMWs come with the M Sport and whatnot Mercedes has the.. I

don't know what Mercedes has

-they have nothing- anyway today we're gonna talk

about the most reliable Audis you can get in to so we'll start this list off with

a car that's dear to both of our hearts - the B5 S4. S4 baby! and that thing was

so cool it was like a big vacuum cleaner that kind of wood had a Camry feel and

like Camry brakes but man that thing just rocketed 0 to 60 in ahead what ko

fours on it or they were just they're just care threes ok Oh three stars was

tuned we had a we had a turbo back exhaust it was a fun car was way too

much fun in car way too much fun but I it's an absolute nightmare to own it's

the only car either of us have owned that's left us dead more than once well

in the twin turbos right like to access them one of them I think was going out

right before we sold it well no it wasn't going out the chance that it went

out how did you have to access that twin turbo the only 1/8 the turbos on these

is a complete engine removal I mean there's a few guys that said they've

been able to do it just by dropping the subframe but I don't think so man I

think it's quicker just to pull the engine and that's the problem with

really the 2.7 in general is it's kind of a pain to work on and it has so many

flaws and that to seven I think also came in the haul road didn't it it also

did come on reliable Audi ever built by possibly the most unreliable car ever

built let's move on true story on Jalopnik I

mean if it's on Jalopnik so another car that we want to talk about we had a d3

a8 it was a 2004 and that car was a quick flip it was a pretty cool car

there was some stuff on the interior that would feel like the MMI ER I mean

overall those are pretty reliable cars but you have little things that go wrong

all the time like we had a problem with the air suspension with ours we had the

MMI door there's a little door that covers that that went wrong China money

to fix the what what but overall it was a pretty reliable car it was right and

the next owner got it got a good price on it and so that car isn't the most

reliable but it's definitely showing that over the years outtie has built a

better product because our RB v s4 was 2001 this was an O for and we definitely

could tell the difference that that car was

improvement was a lot better the saving grace on that I ate though was it was

actually a belt drive v8 so it doesn't have the timing chain problems that

pretty much the rest of the v8 outies did like what kind of v8 like pinnacle

v8 not not the one that we're gonna talk about next okay

this car I think is the overall package if money isn't a factor and that is the

v8 r8 yeah baby those are actually fantastic cars they do have a few little

problems but it's mostly it's mostly superficial stuff like the the make nano

really logical suspension that can go wrong those can start leaking it's a bit

expensive sometimes high pressure fuel pumps fail but for the most part that's

that's a true option car as far as supercars go yeah it's kind of hard to

beat the reliability of an r8 yeah and on top of that that 42 litre that's in

the audi r8 is almost identical to the rs4 which would they came out no aid as

well right and huge improvement that the v8 in the rs4 in the are a double row

timing chains was huge it basically totally got rid of the timing chain

issues at the rest of the a10 and that was like their Achilles heel right so so

you want to be 8 Audi rs4 alright what's next wireless travel so we've got a

touch on the 2-liter TFSI and TSI Volkswagen Group engines I think that's

the most popular engine that goes in pretty much any Audi and almost every VW

that engine has been a huge nightmare for the company it's actually pretty

reliable now but if you buy an older one like 3 2011 I mean they had a myriad of

problems everything from needing piston and ring replacement for oil consumption

they'd have turbocharger wastegate failure they've had intake camshaft

failure they've had high pressure fuel pump failures ok that's enough that's

enough so they're not good they're not gonna make our list it's been a

nightmare but ok buying one now like a 12 or up or an

older one that's had several updates done to it they're pretty solid engines

ok speaking you're gonna buy one though I mean know what you're getting into and

speaking of updates let's talk about the deflategate heisel gate for a second man

that was a big problem huh and it's still not over so the thing about the

diesels is they're actually pretty reliable like they're actually raw

star engines but they're all Cheers yeah and that's that we don't like cheaters

here at ideal cars oh shut up so moving on let's touch on the four

liter turbo now it's actually a twin turbo v8 and it's a reverse flow engine

which means the exhaust manifolds live on the inside of the V the really cool

engine kind of a pain to work on but the problem is they're so new that we don't

know if they're reliable or not so we still have a couple of years before we

can actually put that in the running for one of the top most reliable versus

priced cars that being said from from what we've seen so far they've been good

and they're a blast to drive yeah I mean they're they're pretty true pretty much

the torque like try one for fun not for real so by far and away the most

reliable engine to come out of the Volkswagen Group within the last 20

years has got to be a three liter supercharged v6 you know Trev what once

had that motor so they actually put it in a ton of cars it came in the q5 the

q7 the s4 the s5 the a8 da6 Hey so if you can find one of those cars with that

motor you're not gonna be in the service that much right quick note though

specifically with the q7 those have had some problems that like the early one so

it's a brand new car now a brand new one might be fine but the previous one they

had promised that the sunroof frame would crack and it would leak and it

would take out the navigation I would avoid the the old q7 right and that's

the thing with reliability is it's not just the motor and just the drivetrain

but it's everything and without ease you want great electronics as well as great

drivetrain and like we said with that v6 the three liter with the the

supercharger that motor is really reliable but you have what cars are

electronically reliable like is there anything out there right now from Audi

yeah honestly I wouldn't hesitate to buy a b8 or be eight-and-a-half s4 or a c6

a6 so Traver you saying that that'd be a or b eight-and-a-half s4 checks like

almost all the boxes considering it has that v6 supercharged motor and then it's

one of the most reliable electronically as well I think so I think it's one of

the best Audi's they've ever made but depending on which transmission you want

I'd get a B eight and a half if you're looking to get the DSG otherwise good a

six-speed otherwise get a sixty so we're now gonna narrow it down to the three

finalists for the most reliable outtie per price point

so so my pick for a mid-range Audi is gonna have to be the c7 a6 with the 3

liter I think build quality is off the charts

I think it's nicer than an eClass I think it's nicer than the 5 series of

the same generation right there a blast to drive I mean that's a quality car ok

so that's here that's our mid turn ok let's let's go for a little bit lower

what's what's our low tier and low tier again like you still get into an Audi

which is a high-quality german-engineered car it's it oozes

coolness I think and so what's that loads here what's the one that like we

can as a maybe a first car or first sports car you get into that has the

reliability I think you go with an a for a for just an A for it make sure you buy

one if you're gonna get one older than like 2012 just make sure it's got

service history make sure if it ever had an oil consumption problem the Pistons

have been updated if it was one old enough to have the fuel pump problems

like you just want to make sure you're getting one the title the updated parts

that outtie has had to install on these to make them properly reliable ok and

you can check with the dealership if you're gonna buy one of those cars and

see if it's been performed at the dealer if it hasn't either heavily discount it

or don't even buy it the good thing is is almost all those high failure parts

have extended warranties now to like over 110,000 miles Danko ok and the

added benefit of that car is with a simple tune for like five or six hundred

bucks it's almost as quick as the escort what

is our top tier jobs what is that par for no price it doesn't

matter if you're gonna buy the top to your car that's still the most reliable

I think it's either it's that's a toss-up because it's either gonna be an

rs5 okay or an r8 v8 I'm stay away from the v10 as far as if

you're looking for just the most reliable one you can get because the v10

to have some really crazy problems okay so if we were gonna break this down to

the ratio right of performance reliability and price what is it low to

your mid tier or top tier what do you think I think Victor mid tier okay

I think the a4 is probably your best bet I think that for the price that you can

get one of those two tour 2012 her olders that is probably the best bang

for your buck he thinks that the a6 seven is your best bang for your buck I

don't think you can go wrong with either all right which is saying something

because for a company that's generally generally has a stigma for being very

unreliable they're not really building a bad car these are not they're not in

fact I mean they're taking over the market BMW Mercedes is chasing Audi

right now so I don't think you can go wrong obviously if you can get into an

rs5 or an r8 v8 go do it but otherwise mid tier low tier all of them are great

cars but that's just our thoughts on which ones are the most reliable for the

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