Scotty thinking about buying a 2020 Audi A4 2.0 with only 5k miles. Plan on owning it 4-5 years and putting 60-70k miles on it. I understand it’s not a Toyota in terms of maintenance or reliability but do you think it would be reasonably reliable in that time of ownership or do you advice I stay away at all cost. Love the channel thank you so much!
what about leasing it instead of losing a bunch of money to depreciation
I don’t want to lease because I plan on paying cash for the car, also I want it for more than 3 years 30k miles. If you consider the use I would get out of the car I’d actually lose more money on a lease than buying.
Lease it!
Honestly, someone asked Scotty what they thought about their friend buying an Audi every 3 4 years, and he said that they were an idiot to waste such money on the depreciation.
Save your money and lease it!
In that case, not considering the hit in depreciation, it should be reasonably reliable for 5 6 years. After that is a gamble. Take great care of it.
If you know what to expect, like the car, and have the money, I don’t think the Audi A4 is a bad buy.
It’s not a great buy like other brands, but it’s not a horrible buy either.
Is leasing really cheaper in this scenario? 4-5 years w/ 60K-70K miles?
I think buying it outright would be cheaper if he wants to keep it for that long and that many miles.
See down below a video from Scotty on an older Audi A4 with the 2.0 TFSI engine; the newer ones no better and are still all over-engineered. I would avoid it (you are just throwing your money away), but it is your money and normally I’d say to lease it but you state buying/paying cash is actually cheaper than leasing. You’ve presumably done the math on buy vs. lease, so I will leave it at that. But if you must absolutely have the car and end up buying it, realize the basic warranty is 4 years/50,000 miles and the powertrain is also the same, but you will be blowing past that so get the extended warranty to cover yourself. My friend had a 2015 S4 and the all wheel drive system went out just past the 50,000 miles mark (out of warranty). He had extended warranty and covered him (otherwise would have been thousands of dollars to fix, and with dealer mechanics these days who knows if they would have fixed it all properly!)
