UrS6 Avant: 1995 Audi S6 Wagon

If you are in the market for a 7 passenger family hauler, the S6 Avant might not be on the top of your list...heck it probably won't even make the list, but all 400 of the US bound C4 generation S6 Avants (typ 4A9) came with a small set of rear facing kid seats...so it should be on the list.  Power isn't spectacular with the original 2.2 liter inline-5 cylinder 20-valve engine that pushes out 227 horsepower and 240 ft-lbs of torque, but it isn't bad either. Find this 1995 Audi S6 Wagon offered for $5500 in Santa Clara, CA via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck.

AWD 6-sp Manual Turbo Wagon: 2001 Audi S4 Avant B5

The B5 generation Audi A4 was introduced in 1994 and featured a longitudinally mounted engine mated to a front transaxle with optional quattro all-wheel-drive. It is a good cheap used car, and the hottest version released to the US market was the twin-turbo equipped S4.  Thankfully, the product planners at Audi decided to let the USA buyers get the Avant/Wagon version and was in this generation that Audi started to legitimately challenge BMW in the compact luxury sports-sedan/wagon wars. Find this 2001 Audi S4 Avant B5 offered on SecondDaily.com bidding for $1000 (buy-it-now of $7750) with 9 hours to go, located in New York.

Auction Watch: 1995 Audi S6 Avant

Find this 1995 Audi S6 Avant here on eBay bidding for $9,099 reserve-not-met with 6 days to go, located in Boulder, CO.

Seller Submission: 1990 Audi 200 Quattro Avant Wagon

The wagon isn't dead, it is just taking a nap while dinner is cooking in the kitchen and soon the smoke alarm will blare with an urgency that can ONLY mean the wagon will return to showrooms around the world.  Until that happens, if you want your wagon fix, you will need to buy used, like this 1990 Audi 200 Quattro Avant Wagon offered for $2,500 in Seymour, IN via craigslist.  Seller submission from GS.

Bad Influence: 1951 Citroen Traction Avant

An early adopter of front-wheel-drive boringness, the Citroen Traction Avant was a bad influence on the entire auto industry, ultimately being responsible for such atrocities as the GM X-car. Unreasonable accusations and assertions aside, the Traction Avant was straight from the future, like everything Citroen.  Find this 1951 Citroen Traction Avant for sale in San Francisco, CA for $23,000 via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck

Avant Garde: 1995 Audi S6 Wagon

The Avant Garde art movement was an early 20th century rejection of the norm by artists -- up became down, and down became green.  The fine "art'," music, theater, and cacophonous nonsense that emanated from the "advanced guard" of the art world is just about the antithesis of Audi's stately Ur-S6 wagon, but they strangely share a name.  Find this 1995 Audi S6 Avant offered for $10,000 in Centennial, CO via craigslist. Tip from CJ.

Seller Submission: 2003 Audi A4 Avant

This next car comes as a seller submission from Chris who writes: if you decide that you must berate, belittle or badger me, i would ask that you please choose badger as i cant even remember the last time i had a good badgering.  Find this 2003 Audi A4 Avant with 1.8T and slushbox tiptronic transmission offered for $4,300 in San Jose, CA via craigslist.

5k: Rare Wagon: 1991 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Avant

 Audi never built that many of the Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Avant, so finding one in good shape for a decent price is unusual, so I didn't expect to see another so soon after the example posted here in Dec of 2014.  The C3 body style Audi 200 was built starting in 1982, but it wasn't until the last and final year of production (1991) that Audi installed the latest 20-valve turbo engine known as the 3B mated to 5-speed gearbox and Quattro all-wheel-drive.  Find this 1991 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro Wagon offered for $5,950 located in Bozeman, MT via craigslist.  Tip from Oldsmobuick.

1k: Some Assy Required: 1991 Audi 200 Quattro 20V Avant Wagon

The C3 generation Audi 200 was available as a 4-door sedan or 5-door wagon and built in Neckarsulm, Germany from 1982 to 1991.  It was available with a turbocharged engine and permanent four-wheel-drive that hinted at what Audi was going to do a few years later when it released the first S4 and S6.  Find this 1991 Audi 200 Quattro 20V Avant Wagon here on eBay currently bidding for $811 reserve-not-met with 4 days to go, located in Sacramento, CA. Tip from Rene.

3k: Seasonal Selfishness: 1989 Audi Quattro Turbo Avant

This is how car collections start. With your sports car/project car/Radio Flyer Wagon already stowed away for the season, your daily driver is left with winter transportation - entirely possible with a good set of snow tires. Then you think, "Hmm, this Audi would be ideal (five-speed transmission) for a last-minute Christmas shopping blitz (turbo) in the snow (Quattro) for the whole family (Avant)." And so it begins. Find this 1989 Audi 200 Quattro Avant in Denver, CO for $2,800 via Craigslist.

10k: Family Turismo: 2002 Audi S6 Avant

Two of the biggest complaints about yesterday's Mazda5 is that it is slow and offers limited behind-the-seat storage in the hatch area.  If you are a mom on the go with 4 kids, chances are one of them will be in a stroller, another playing lacrosse and the rest building giant dioramas.  The gym locker sized space behind the rear seat in the Mazda5 just isn't going to cut it...so...why not pick up a real wagon with some serious storage room?  But, it won't seat six!  Just wait and see.  Find this 2002 Audi S6 Avant offered for $8900 near Dallas, TX via autotrader.  Tip from Matt J.

15k: Avant Garde: 2005 Audi S4 B7 Avant

The term Avant Garde means a work of art that is innovative or experimental and in French means "advanced guard."  In the art work this means total garbage passed off as art that pointy headed intellectuals rave about the meaning and expressiveness.  It is the kind of art that you wouldn't piss on if it were on fire, but you may actually piss on Marcel Duchamp's Fountain because it is actually a urinal.  The biggest problem facing most modern art museums around the world is turn over in the janitorial staff because they are always getting sacked for cleaning up messes, graffiti, or piles of barf that later turn out to be part of some exhibit.  What does this have to do with Audi's S4 Avant?  Absolutely nothing, because the Avant is a magnificent piece of art that is worth more than anything found in any post-impression era art wing (actually, now that you mention it, impressionism is mostly garbage too...to quote Ignatius Reilly from John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces “I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” ...but I digress).  Find this 2005 Audi S4 Avant offered for $14,500 in the village of Nyack, NY (who knew there were villages in the states...?) via cars.com.