Col Ken

I am also in the market for a D4 S8--anxious to follow this thread about what to look out for. Especially interested in comments of year by year issues (i.e. '13 vs '14, etc). I am rather surprised to hear of the low mileage recommendation. I bought a '91 V8Q in '99 with 100K, sold in with 200K (did have a $1500 tranny repair). Currently drive 1 of the 300 S8 D2's sold in 2003. I bought it with 90K in '08--now has 205K and remains the love of my life; other than the 5-sp ZF tranny time clock (failed at 150K per usual--$2K repair) it has been trouble-free. (Ok that annoying $12 plastic oil cooler tube started leaking last month--took me about 8 hrs to repair it...) Bottomline: I'm used to buying high-mileage Audis for a song and expecting them to last to 200K... I recall the horror stories of the original RS6 air suspension, is it still that troublesome?