After stripping out the contents of an entire section of my front yard, I realized I'd better get something back into the vacant dirt bowl soon, before my friendly next-door baking neighbor started leaving me nasty notes instead of carrot cake and chocolate-chunk cookies.
Only needing a few medium-sized plants and a bunch of smalls, I figured our long-term 2009 Audi A4 Avant would do the job. Plus, I just plain love to drive it.
Of course, I hadn't planned on my husband adding a garden hose reel and a hula-ho (he just likes to say hula-ho) to the load, but the sporty wagon handled it all in its 17.3-cubic feet cargo area without even folding the rear seats flat.
And here's the second trip back to the nursery. It had nothing to do with the Audi's inability to carry everything at once, and more to do with my sudden planting fervor.The A4 Avant would've swallowed all the items in one trip if I had made a better pre-shopping plan. Good thing the nursery is just around the corner.
Kelly Toepke, News Editor @ 15,291 miles
bmwbig6 says:
05:09 PM, 07/14/09
Our Avant serves us well for nursery duty too. I'd like to suggest one tip, Kelly: flip the trunk's cargo floor liner upside down. The reverse side has a plastic tray that is a couple inches deep to contain dirt and liquids, and is easier to clean up than the plush carpet on the reverse side.
hurls65 says:
10:14 AM, 07/15/09
bmwbig... your timing on that tip couldn't be better -- I'm searching on Audi.com , MacNeil and other places for a rubber trunk mat like I have for my E46 touring, completely in vain.
I'm going to have to check out your tip...
bmwbig6 says:
11:37 AM, 07/15/09
hurls65, if you still want a trunk liner, Audi makes several kinds (for the Avant at least). There is a lightweight foam liner, a rubberized plastic liner, a plush carpeted cargo liner (with movable cargo mgmt blocks), and a hard plastic tray with raised edges that protect the sides of the Avant's cargo bay for really dirty stuff.
bbechtel16 says:
02:18 PM, 07/20/09
2009 Audi A4 Avant: Let me be yours ever truly?