RE: Audi RS6 Avant: PH Fleet

[DoubleSix]

NomduJour said:

Yes, and it's to gain the opposite effect of only tinting part of the glasshouse.

I agree, the transition isn't ideal. But it's an acceptable compromise that brings other more significant advantages imo.

Of course the marketers could just leave it all clear to avoid the issue... But they dont.

[NomduJour]

Yet, as a child, riding in the back of cars without ghetto windows didn't turn me blind and didn't give me skin cancer. Have you bred an albino or something?

The press photo dark windows hide the interior and background - no distraction from the shape and easier to edit.

[Studio117]

DoubleSix said:

Run along. The adults are having a discussion.

Sorry dad. didn't get enough sun today.

[Fastdruid]

NomduJour said:

Yet, as a child, riding in the back of cars without ghetto windows didn't turn me blind and didn't give me skin cancer. Have you bred an albino or something?

Ah the good old "when I was a child" comeback. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, stare into the sun until I was blind, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

[DoubleSix]

NomduJour said:

The press photo dark windows hide the interior and background - no distraction from the shape

All aesthetic benefits I appreciate in my own vehicles.

Anyway, Im sorry I disagreed with Mr Harris ok! It never goes down well here.

Zombieland is on Film 4 and Woody Harrelson is very good in it so im going to watch and drink wine. G'night.

[Studio117]

Fastdruid said:

NomduJour said:

Yet, as a child, riding in the back of cars without ghetto windows didn't turn me blind and didn't give me skin cancer. Have you bred an albino or something?

Ah the good old "when I was a child" comeback. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, stare into the sun until I was blind, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

[Escort3500]

simo1863 said:

Obligatory look at my RS6 post...... was actually a tester I had for a week.....

Not sure whether I preferred the E63S though, tough one.

For me, the MB just looks very ordinary compared to the RS6

[Jarno]

Jarno said:

Anybody got a picture of the RS6 on the 'small' standard fit 20"?

Anybody? Every single one I've seen has the optional wheels

[Fastdruid]

Fastdruid said:

NomduJour said:

Yet, as a child, riding in the back of cars without ghetto windows didn't turn me blind and didn't give me skin cancer. Have you bred an albino or something?

Ah the good old "when I was a child" comeback. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, stare into the sun until I was blind, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

More seriously when I was a child we didn't have car seats which strapped us into one position, unable to move away from the sun. Babies were carried by someone who could shade them from the sun (and tbh I'm not quite sure how mothers coped if they were alone with a baby driving a car). It wasn't until I think I was about 7 or 8 that my parents had a car with seatbelts in the back so if it was too hot on one side I would fight my sister for the shady side or climb into the boot, hide in the footwell etc...

[vladx2]

Matt UK said:

That is an impressive looking car.

Looks like it's driven through a cement mixer. Strangely appealing.

[x chunk x]

Hi mr Audi sales man, I'm here to pick up my ninety eight and a half thousand pound family car designed for touring and racking up miles albeit quickly.
No problem Mr Harris, by any chance would you like your mobile phone to work in the car sir?
Ideally yes, why do you ask?
That'll be an extra £175 pounds sir.
Hows about go fk yourself!!!!!!!!!!

[Zad]

Why no "money shot" pics? Its like announcing you have a glamour model as a girlfriend, and showing people her beautiful smile and flowing shiny locks. Lovely, but not what people are here for. I realise even the most expensive metal gets those awful plastic fake boobsengine covers, but it would be nice to see the engineering you are paying for.

[graeme4130]

DoubleSix said:

whoami said:

DoubleSix said:

I just wish I could sensibly have them in-front of the B pillar as it would have prevented the oik in a rusty flatbed from gawping at my OH's legs when stuck in traffic by Temple Meads last Tuesday.

Sorry.

I didn't think he'd noticed.

SHE didn't but I fooking did! And lent across to share my thoughts!

So totally off topic, but surely if a women wears a short skirt in public, to an extent they have little grounds to moan about people looking at their legs
Same goes with low cut tops

[jamieduff1981]

Whatever the appeal of this car is, it goes completely over my head. Especially in this colour which would have been dismissed from a board meeting in the Morris Minor factory for being st.

Sorry Chris - I wouldn't drive this if you gave it to me. It's just bland embodied on 4 wheels.

When a car looks this non-descript, who cares how fast it goes or how little brains are needed to drive it because of its AWD. I utterly reject any notion that it's better in winter too because tyres this wide are lethal on snow and ice. If your RWD car doesn't want to move, at least you can't crash it when unable to stop at a T-junction on a gentle downhill slope.

I simply and utterly cannot get over this country's fking obsession with overcast grey though. I mean seriously now could you pick a more lifeless colour?

[okie592]

Purple anyone?

[sanctum]

Chris Harris said:

dukebox9reg said:

In my Cooper S it says 95 on the flap but read the manual and it says run it on super for its true performance or something like that.

I tend to run on tesco 100 or Shell.

Stick the RS6 on a rolling road. Show the difference between 95 and 100 on a modern turbo car.

I know 5th gear years back did a similar test and the good ol'scooby had pretty good gains with super.

Mk5 Golf GTI 95RON 172bhp,BP Ultimate 174bhp, Shell Optimax 177bhp

Hawkeye STI 95RON 235bhp, BP Ultimate 248bhp, Shell 249bhp

How much do people spend on induction kits trying to get a 5bhp gain let alone a 14bhp.

Good idea. I shall do just that.

This post may be 7 pages in, but my OCD won't go away until I post this.

My old B7 A4 2.0 turbo said very clearly in the manual that it should be run on at least 99 octane fuel unless none was available, when 95 could be used for short periods. So that's what it got.
If your manual doesn't say that, or states that either 95 or 99 is acceptable, then use what you want, you really won't notice the power difference, and unless your engine is mapped out of the factory to take advantage of the higher octane, it won't make any difference at all.

But if like my B7, the manual specifies a preference, then you should use it. Running higher octane fuel is no problem, but lower octane fuel forces the engine to run rich and retarded (a bit like government). Running like that for long periods (years) is bad for your engine's overall health.

I had an old C4 A6 2.7 twin turbo I mapped to hell, on super unleaded with octane booster. It would run nicely on standard super unleaded, but if you tried to run it on 95 octane, one bank of the v6 would get shut down by the knock sensors. Loved that car.

[DoubleSix]

graeme4130 said:

DoubleSix said:

whoami said:

DoubleSix said:

I just wish I could sensibly have them in-front of the B pillar as it would have prevented the oik in a rusty flatbed from gawping at my OH's legs when stuck in traffic by Temple Meads last Tuesday.

Sorry.

I didn't think he'd noticed.

SHE didn't but I fooking did! And lent across to share my thoughts!

So totally off topic, but surely if a women wears a short skirt in public, to an extent they have little grounds to moan about people looking at their legs
Same goes with low cut tops

There's a difference between an admiring glance and sustained leering.

But yes, we are rather off topic now.

[okie592]

jamieduff1981 said:

I simply and utterly cannot get over this country's fking obsession with overcast grey though. I mean seriously now could you pick a more lifeless colour?

Resale value.

[robinessex]

Going back to the beginning, why do manufacturers dish out 'show' cars with trim options/bits that you can't actually buy? I bet if Chris had cash in his pocket to buy instead, he'd have got his black trim when he threatened to walk from the showroom.

[jamieduff1981]

okie592 said:

jamieduff1981 said:

I simply and utterly cannot get over this country's fking obsession with overcast grey though. I mean seriously now could you pick a more lifeless colour?

Resale value.

Resale value is entirely dependant on someone else spotting the invisible car and thinking "Wow - that miserable hue suits my personality perfectly. Take my money Salesman!"

I just don't get it