I love subtle design of the interior. The 5cyl does sound incredible. I will be interested to hear your thoughts after a few months of ownership.

That interior is really nice, I'm a big fan of the cluster and flat bottom wheel. Great job with wanting to do maintenance on the cars, I thought you might be hesitant as these can require new tools torx etc. 

Any subtle design flaw or are you absorbed by the whole thing haha is it a bi modal exhaust where you can change the tone or is it 110% raspy goodness? 

flypig
Nice pick! I had the same model except without the (R) badge & 1 cylinder short. I bought mine back in 2009 new & sold it 2 years ago.

Was yours an S model with quatro? what did you end up replacing yours with?

Matts_SW20
That interior is really nice, I'm a big fan of the cluster and flat bottom wheel. Great job with wanting to do maintenance on the cars, I thought you might be hesitant as these can require new tools torx etc. 

Any subtle design flaw or are you absorbed by the whole thing haha is it a bi modal exhaust where you can change the tone or is it 110% raspy goodness? 

Oh the maintenance is not a big issue for me and I do have a reasonably extensive tool set from all of my years working on Caterpillar equipment, what I am more interested in is getting myself Vagcom so I can do my own coding on the car.
So far there isn't anything I have noticed that really bugs me the only thing that does seem a little annoying is the rear view mirror almost seems too small and feels like it doesn't give the best rearward visibility but if that's all I have to complain about its not too bad haha.
Yes it has the bi modal exhaust so you can quieten it up a bit to keep the neighbors happy when I am leaving at 5am.