hounted
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What's next? Audi bringing the RS6 with the V12 TDI from the mad Q7?
What's next? Audi bringing the RS6 with the V12 TDI from the mad Q7?
Audi, build this. Immediately. In Avant form. With a manual. I'll go sell some organs and get back to you with my cheque.
Impressive figures. It's also nice to hear the people at M actually cared about this and even ditched the electronic power steering. Hydraulic one offers better steering feel, but increases consumption, which is something I thought BMW would do anything to reduce. Apparently driving dynamics were more important factor with these cars. I like that.
I tell everyone that BMW is the representation of all that's evil in the known universe, and no one believes me. Now they go and show it to everyone, and everyone just goes "Ooooh, shiny!"
What does this company have to do to convince you? Kill puppies and drink their blood?
What's next? Audi bringing the RS6 with the V12 TDI from the mad Q7?
Audi, build this. Immediately. In Avant form. With a manual. I'll go sell some organs and get back to you with my cheque.
You're weird...
I acknowledge that the Clarkson quote is old (it's from one of his late 90s videos). I also acknowledge that my hatred of BMWs comes from living in Frankfurt between 1988 and 1991, and the deluge of boring bankers in boring boxes behaving like assholes formed my opinion. I will also state that since 1991, I have been living in the United States, where Audi has not fully replaced BMW as the car of choice for pricks with too much money. So there are non-weird, completely rational reasons for me to maintain said hatred.
The stereotypical drivers for German cars around here is such:
BMW: Pricks
Audi: CFOs in their fifties
Mercedes: Upper management or pimps
Porsche: Testosterone replacement candidates
VW: They don't know any better
The funny thing is, though, that all the BMW or Audi drivers I personally know, aren't tossers at all... The son of the owner of my favourite restaurant for example owns an A8 with 21 inch rims. He is a great guy and a real car nut.
The biggest tosser I know, however, drives a Daihatsu Cuore.
That's how it looks in Germany:BMW: Pricks
Audi: CFOs in their fifties
Mercedes: Upper management or pimps
Porsche: Testosterone replacement candidates
VW: They don't know any better
Let me update this:
BMW: Turks and Arabs
Audi: The kind of Pricks and Yuppies that had BMWs in the 80s and 90s.
Merc: Pensioners who can afford better than an Opel
Porsche: "I have a midlife crisis, but I don't want a Harley."
VW: It's the ultimate everyperson's car.
You want a manual quattro with a torque of about 800 Nm at 1500 rpm? Dude, save money for lots of replacement clutches already. Besides, have you ever driven a current 7- or 8-speed automatic?
Personally I don't think that Audi will respond to this. But if they do, they would also prep up the V6 diesel or put in the V8 diesel from the A8. But we'll see.
What's with all the Diesel love here? Engines that run out of steam at around 4k rpm (a powerband as narrow as in a VTEC engine but without any of the excitement), make dull (in the best of cases) noises and smell badly. Give me a proper petrol engine anyday.