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Originally Posted by ZBB
Wow... If my wife's Countryman was ~3 years older I'd see if she was interested.
But a comment is needed -- what does "I lasted 7 weeks..." mean -- what did you not like?
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I don't like driving it. I thought gf might warm up to it, she didn't either (and unfortunately she doesn't participate when I go car shopping).
The ride/handling balance of a high 5200lbs just doesn't work for me, an enthusiast, even though I try to have one non-enthusiast car in the household. I didn't find the a4 sports package good enough. While the x5 has better steering feel and weight distribution, that's about it. It's like driving an elephant and no suspension magic/lowering/adaptive drive whatever will ever fix it. Just being honest here.
If I can convince myself that the front seats won't kill my back, I'm thinking of going with a recent (11+) wrx hatch. I can get over the basic impreza interior for the trade-off of having a light, fun, fast car. A trade-in of an expensive bmw for such a car will be hard, so I may have to sell this myself, especially as it has cpo.