Audi R8 - first customer registered car apparently...
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I cannot but help thinking it looks like a veyron that has had all of its nice bits removed and you are left with a tupperware cheap version.
Seriously whoever styled that car must be pissing themselves that they have sold the emperors new clothes. It is the car equivalent of a bull frog. If that thing was any more hideous it would be called Jade Goody.
Seriously whoever styled that car must be pissing themselves that they have sold the emperors new clothes. It is the car equivalent of a bull frog. If that thing was any more hideous it would be called Jade Goody.
JS99 said:
Still don't like 'em..
The design doesn't flow, it looks like 3 or 4 cars mashed into one..
Does look a little odd from the side, front too low and small compared to the passenger section which looks too big and the wheelbase too long. Or it might just be the photo, the lines on the car or that coloured section behind the doors (which I think needs to be the same colour as the car to work).The design doesn't flow, it looks like 3 or 4 cars mashed into one..
Perhaps it's the imbalance of long front overhang and short rear. Or the appearance it's giving of leaning forward.
Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 24th July 13:29
FourWheelDrift said:
JS99 said:
Still don't like 'em..
The design doesn't flow, it looks like 3 or 4 cars mashed into one..
Does look a little odd from the side, front too low and small compared to the passenger section which looks too big and the wheelbase too long. Or it might just be the photo, the lines on the car or that coloured section behind the doors (which I think needs to be the same colour as the car to work).The design doesn't flow, it looks like 3 or 4 cars mashed into one..
Perhaps it's the imbalance of long front overhang and short rear. Or the appearance it's giving of leaning forward.
Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 24th July 13:29
I think it's nice in an Audi way.
Maybe not £80k good looking but who cares? In a year and a bit it'll be £60k good looking!
One thing that caught my eye in the OP's pictures though was the apparent size of the door glass area. Looked really big. Is that just the lighting of the lower half of the car or is it really that big looking?
Dave
Maybe not £80k good looking but who cares? In a year and a bit it'll be £60k good looking!
One thing that caught my eye in the OP's pictures though was the apparent size of the door glass area. Looked really big. Is that just the lighting of the lower half of the car or is it really that big looking?
Dave
I don't think it looks THAT bad. Most high end sports cars aren't exactly pretty... I personally think the last 3 generations of 911 look like they've been beaten within an inch of their lives with the ugly stick while it was eating copious amounts of high fat foods but I can still appreciate the engineering.
Mr Whippy said:
I think it's nice in an Audi way.
Maybe not £80k good looking but who cares? In a year and a bit it'll be £60k good looking!
One thing that caught my eye in the OP's pictures though was the apparent size of the door glass area. Looked really big. Is that just the lighting of the lower half of the car or is it really that big looking?
Dave
Who cares? The owners, when most of the public will look at one and think they have just seen a TT.Maybe not £80k good looking but who cares? In a year and a bit it'll be £60k good looking!
One thing that caught my eye in the OP's pictures though was the apparent size of the door glass area. Looked really big. Is that just the lighting of the lower half of the car or is it really that big looking?
Dave
Who cares? the owners, when thewy realise they could have had an Aston Martin istead. "Oh, I've got an Audi" is hardly the same as saying "I drive an Aston Martin" or "I drive a Porsche" or "I drive a Ferrari"
It might go the way of the VW Phaeton, if it doesnt have very clever marketing behind it.
williamp said:
Mr Whippy said:
I think it's nice in an Audi way.
Maybe not £80k good looking but who cares? In a year and a bit it'll be £60k good looking!
One thing that caught my eye in the OP's pictures though was the apparent size of the door glass area. Looked really big. Is that just the lighting of the lower half of the car or is it really that big looking?
Dave
Who cares? The owners, when most of the public will look at one and think they have just seen a TT.Maybe not £80k good looking but who cares? In a year and a bit it'll be £60k good looking!
One thing that caught my eye in the OP's pictures though was the apparent size of the door glass area. Looked really big. Is that just the lighting of the lower half of the car or is it really that big looking?
Dave
Who cares? the owners, when thewy realise they could have had an Aston Martin istead. "Oh, I've got an Audi" is hardly the same as saying "I drive an Aston Martin" or "I drive a Porsche" or "I drive a Ferrari"
It might go the way of the VW Phaeton, if it doesnt have very clever marketing behind it.
An Aston DB9, as nice as they look, is just another car moulded to appeal to the widest possible market.
I'm sure anyone who can part with £80k on ONE car is intelligent enough to know their options, if not then they won't be intelligent enough to care what they could have had with respect to cars.
Choice is never a bad thing. It's a mid-engined 4wd GT type car, in a market filled with FR cars and the 911... I think it should be praised for being comprehensively different to anything else. Everyone whinges about the Cayman being better than a 911 but being down-engineered. Well here is the equivalent with the big power and 4wd, and now no one thinks it's any good.
If it was £60k new would it be too much? I think when you see it in the skin it'll look different enough to the new TT and old TT. And again, if people can't tell the difference they are likely people who you wouldn't care about anyway, as they think any red car that looks 'sporty' is a Ferraro!
Dave
Edited by Mr Whippy on Tuesday 24th July 14:33
FourWheelDrift said:
Perhaps it's the imbalance of long front overhang and short rear. Or the appearance it's giving of leaning forward.
Yeah, I mean what kind of numpty would design a car like that? 
Edited by Beefmeister on Tuesday 24th July 14:49
Edited by Beefmeister on Tuesday 24th July 22:04
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