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It's longitudinally engined, full time AWD... aka Quattro. The entire engine is ahead of the front axle. The transmission and the front differential axle is in a single casing. The center and front differential are torsen type limited slip; the rear differential is active. The default torque split is 40 front / 60 rear, but out to 85% can go to the rear and 65% can go to the front. -- It is also a Hot Vee engine. Meaning the exhaust comes out in the middle and the twin turbos sit on top in the valley of the Vee. The intakes are on the sides. There is an air-to-water aftercooler in the front between the throttle body and the intake plenums. The turbos are tiny and design for response not maximizing engine power. The engine makes a paltry 435 hp @ 5,100-6000 rpm with 444 lb-ft available from 1,500-5,000 rpm. The redline is a modest 6,000 rpm.

I know- I started it 2 days early. Sue me. - - - - - Super straight/original '70 Mustang, I-6 / auto. No rot/ rust/ dents. For sale : 4K. - - - - - This also showed up @ my buddy's (for sale) :

This is a "cove", a sheltered inlet where land meets water. It's indented / concave shape is obvious. In automotive terms, the 'cove panel' was a widespread stylistic treatment found at the rear of a vehicle. While other locations have also been termed the same (the '56-62 Corvette's side scoop comes readily to mind), I would like to focus on the rear of vehicles. Part of the reason for that is; at one point the rear of vehicles got as much design attention as the front, roughly the mid '50s into the late '60s. But that standard fell by the wayside, and most modern cars wear quite bland rears. Like the geographical feature, the automotive cove panel would be a framed / concave section of the bodywork. One example would be the groundbreaking '65 Corvair : To further define the treatment, I'd like to focus on painted cove panels. From a production standpoint, it took at extra assembly step to mask off and paint a secondary color in such a relatively small area. The above Corvair was the Corsa trim [either quad carbs or turbocharged], the other trim 'Vairs had the same cove but painted body color. Of course the sheet metal as struck for the body allows the paint contrast, but while a number of cars had a similar feature they seldom offered it contrast painted. That extra step added flair and interest, and usually marked specialty models.

The Aura Returns From Uranus! Does it run rings around its Saturn predecessor?

This went bye-bye today; horribly rotted but new owner was happy. $3K.

Pretty clean (10K/year). Can't at all say I'm a fan of the styling tho. But wow- assuming the dealership made some money on the trade, the owner may have gotten only $25K; 4 years cost him $84,000 in depreciation. What an idiot.

Congrats sir! ? I think I snuck in a year sooner (found myself on the way back machine in 04) as I remember the crash in 2005, and talking about the end of the Cavalier and the incoming Cobalt.... Wow that goes back......

I defected back to the Germans this Christmas... got myself an Audi A8L 4.0T. The car sold new for 109. But at 4 years and 40K miles as a Certified Pre-Owned, it is $31.6K making it an exceptional value. This is in part due to the SUV craze and in part due to the fact that car enthusiasts are generally gravitate to the S-cars, the M-cars, the V-cars and the AMGs. This left the traditional flagship sedan with low demand and fantastically bad residual values (71% depreciation in 4 years). It is no S8 Plus for sure, but it is brisk enough.