Vehicular update

The torch has been handed over.  The Audi RS6 which I both loved and hated is now someone else's to experience.  The car was sooo good at so many things, but the amazingly complex design which made it so much fun to drive also made it very expensive to maintain.  And when it takes dropping the engine and transmission to replace just the valve cover gaskets you know you are in deep trouble.  This was my second RS6 so of course I am slightly deranged to begin with, but I ask my self if I would do it again?  Not buy another RS6 or perhaps even another Audi.. but whether or not I would purchase that level car again.  The car that is rare, or has that one amazing engine that also costs 40K to replace, or worse shares almost no other parts with the rest of its parent manufacturers cars.  Yes to a car guy those can be the things that set it apart from the crowd and make it more yours somehow.  But all that technology and effort costs tons to obtain and more to maintain.  And in the end I rarely felt I was able to get 10/10ths out of the RS6.  Pushing it meant that you were well over 150mph and who needs to really go that fast?  It was also not the best carving tool since it weighed so much so it was more about pointing and squirting very quickly around traffic or from curve to curve.  Don't get me wrong that was silly fun and always a smile generator.  Driving that car in anger was another experience all together and one that sometimes made me question my sanity.
So why would one run out and buy the next new car that has 500+ hp and 7 or 8 speeds?  You are never going to extract all that potential on anything but a track and no one ever really takes those cars to the track.  So it becomes more about looks.  Looks count though.  I really honestly felt the RS6 was a handsome car that deserved soaking in its lines every once in a while.  It was stealthy in that it was a four door older European sedan that blended in.  There was just a subtle hint that it was more than a traditional A6.  Bigger brakes, wider track, black factory exhausts and a small rear deck lip to balance out the front grill with bigger openings.  Small queues that this thing has another purpose.  I love cars like that.  Not as big a fan of the bright yellow with racing strip cars.  It would be difficult for me to own a Gallardo for instance (although I would manage somehow).
So what about the next whip?  I still have my R32 which I have never stopped loving.  I can get more out of it in terms of my driving involvement than the RS6, but it lacks the luxury the Audi wrapped its passengers in.  The R32 is no slouch compared to just about every other VW made, but its no RS6.  But spending six figures on a car is just about the last thing I should be doing right now so I won't.  I would rather find an older car that you really have to work at to get all of its performance and know that my efforts payoff on that winding road somewhere, that it was more driver skill than high horse-power and technology that makes an afternoon drive so memorable.  The problem is that sometimes those cars are just as expensive to own and operate.  I'll be looking