For the past sixteen years I've been driving Saab's and BMW's, but I'm due for a new car in the next few months and I'm really leaning towards a used ('04 or '05) S4 in manual. I'd like to pick one up with approximately 20k miles and drive it to 100k over a period of years.

While these cars are still relatively new can anyone speak to their overall reliability? I well aware that German cars cost more to repair and I'm okay with that, but at the same time I don't want to be shelling out $1k every few months for random repairs. While I drive agressively on occassion I have no intentions of racining it or beating on it. The wife and I just want a fun car that we can drive when we're not forced to take the "grocery grabber" on account of having the kids with us.

I test drove one the other day and fell in love...am I crazy to think I can put 12,000 miles/year on this car and not end up with huge repair bills?

Thank you in advance for your input. I'm new to Audi's so be gentle

-drmorley