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Old 12-27-2014, 06:43 PM
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I talked with a dealer and I got them to give me the 6% with ACNA, went to another dealer and talked with them and I mentiond that so far I got 6% and if they will beat the deal, I will buy from them and the general manager offered me 6 1/2% I told him make it 7% and you got a deal and he said yes, but I had to pay $900 for Audi care, but I also got them to give me Xpeel ultimate for the dealer cost. I think I got a good deal but I visited four dealers till I got the best deal. ps hope this helps
Old 12-28-2014, 05:37 AM
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If that was on a car on the lot it's a pretty good price (on Black Friday one dealer in my area was doing 6% + $1000). If that was a factory order it was outstanding.

EDIT: Wait, did that include the loyalty bonus? If so, that takes it down a notch.
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I test drove an A7 with comfort seats and the airflow was notably audible and annoying to me. Driving in a northern climate, I only really need the heat and loved the look and feel of sport seats - they were what I was used to in the S5 so it was an easy call (and less $$). People in Florida: YMMV.

Drivers Assist package - without researching what's in this package I can tell you what I use and what I forget I even have:

1. Adaptive cruise - I use daily in stop/go traffic - its a godsend.
2. Heads up - I use (although for some reason, the car resets the heads up to MPH only all the time and I have to re-add Nav and Cruise content)
3. Lane Assist - I will use this on long highway drives just in case
4. Night Vision - I forget to turn this on - and it has to be a foggy night driving around the city that I see conditions that remind me to turn it on. The pedestrian warning should be on all the time (maybe it is, and I've never come close to hitting one) but I think you have to turn on night vision to have it active, and since I hardly ever turn it on, it isn't that useful - Someone enlighten me if I'm missing something here?

(am I forgetting anything else in the package?)

Don't know about the sport package - mine had the sport diff as standard.

I used the Audi club membership (which I've been for several years) and got some off the dealer including Audi care thrown in. I think a lot has to do with your dealer. I've bought 3 cars and done all my service there, so I know everyone there, and maybe that helps, but I think you are on the right track.
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Anyone order option code PEY, Arras Red Design Selection?

Audi design selection arras red > Audi Sverige

Looks interesting...
Old 01-01-2015, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by rs4fun2008
Anyone order option code PEY, Arras Red Design Selection?

Audi design selection arras red > Audi Sverige

Looks interesting...
Yes just ordered it on my s7:

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1) I love my comfort seats. I do prefer the look of the standard seats with the diamond stitching, but I love the ventilated seats in summer (despite the noticeable noise pointed out above). The massage feature also made my wife think "wasting" $90k on a car wasn't such a bad idea after all. I also VAGCOMed the seats so the massage stays on longer before shutting down. It is a little thing, but the way the headrests adjust is great, too. Up / down and forward / backward (all manually), and you can really put them in a comfortable and safe position.

2) I'd suggest getting it. I like the adaptive cruise control on road trips ... really nice feature that I didn't think I'd use, but it's great. The system also gives you the active pre-sense, which saved me once. Someone cut me off and slammed on their brakes, and my car chimed and started braking as I was moving my foot over. Pretty damn cool. I have not found it to be at all intrusive. It has never activated the brakes inappropriately, and it brings up a red icon when the closing speed is getting dangerous before braking ... usually if that icon comes up, I am already moving to brake, and I've only seen it a few times in 12k miles. I got the night vision ... and not sure I would buy it again. $2500, has to be turned on, only works if weather is cool enough (e.g., below 78 degF or so to get 20 degF delta vs. body temp), and only highlights pedestrians. I was hoping it would help highlight deer ... you can see them on the screen but they don't get yellow/red boxed, which initiates the warning in the HUD. So, not really useful unless you want to start at the dash.

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Originally Posted by bjterp00
...I was hoping it would help highlight deer ... you can see them on the screen but they don't get yellow/red boxed, which initiates the warning in the HUD. So, not really useful unless you want to start at the dash.
Re: night vision deer detection---it's now available beginning in 2015 MY on the A8 for both instrument screen and HUD. So I suspect now available also on A7/S7/RS7.

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I read somewhere that the night vision system was "greatly enhanced" for 2016.
I had it in a 2012 A7 and still found it useful overall, even for city driving, as in NYC pedestrians roam the streets and on rainy nights it was nice to have.
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Would be great if they could upgrade the brains of the night vision system in the 2015's. Seems unlikely they would offer something like that, but I suspect it is not a hardware upgrade as much as a software improvement. The "camera" can see such things, just doesn't know how to interpret them.
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Default 2016 S7 Pricing and general pricing

I keep seeing that most people on here and other forums are getting the 6% off MSRP, and sometimes getting Audi Care thrown in. According to research I have done, it appears that the actual invoice for most Audis is actually about 9 to 9.5% below MSRP. Has anyone come across ordering the new S6, or getting an older S6 under a lease program where they have been able to get more than 6%, I have seen 7% once, but anyone try to go down to 8% off or more? Just curous how much a dealer would be willing to work on that. I am not sure what kind of hold backs or incentives they may have, does the dealer make decent money on the Audi care?


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