RE: Audi RS6 Avant: PH Fleet

[Slickhillsy]

"a brake pedal more sensitive than my feelings around being branded a paid Porsche hand in the PH forums" Someone touched a nerve!

[Chris Harris]

DoubleSix said:

You know when people rail against something popular, just because it's popular and therefore you don't want to be popular because you're cool and cool people don't follow the crowd.

That is, I believe, what is happening with Chris' continual knocking of tinted glass.

Edited by DoubleSix on Thursday 28th August 15:16

Yes, that's it. No practical or aesthetic considerations involved in the opinion at all.

[Chris Harris]

405dogvan said:

I have no idea what relevance this car has to anyone actually interested in cars right now - in 10 years time, if it's electronics have not melted, call me back.

Do you really mean that?

[Chris Harris]

yellowbentines said:

A £77k car that doesn't have heated seats or phone preparation as standard?!

The colour suits it well, as it does seem like quite a dull way to spend £100k on a car.

Lack of heated seats as standard is criminal in my book.

[Chris Harris]

BTW, this was the Aussie press car with the satin trim blacked-out.

[anonymous-user]

Chris Harris said:

405dogvan said:

I have no idea what relevance this car has to anyone actually interested in cars right now - in 10 years time, if it's electronics have not melted, call me back.

Do you really mean that?

We should probably be glad that someone is still making cars like this that are so "sledgehammer to a nut" and that someone is stupid enough to spend their money on a new one. I can't see it happening for THAT much longer......

#itsalldoomandgloom

[Turbobanana]

£22,000 (or thereabouts) on options. OK, I sort of get the RS Suspension and ceramic brakes bit, but £6,000 on a stereo? It's a car, not the Royal Albert Hall.

No wonder Audi choked.

[Chris Harris]

contango said:

"In the beginning we had the Quattro, big 'Q' and major all-weather pace."

CH, I do appreciate you are not an Audi man but it was quattro, the icon had a small non capital "q".

Sorry!

[Chris Harris]

Turbobanana said:

£22,000 (or thereabouts) on options. OK, I sort of get the RS Suspension and ceramic brakes bit, but £6,000 on a stereo? It's a car, not the Royal Albert Hall.

No wonder Audi choked.

B&O is surprisingly popular option on all swanky Audis apparently.

[anonymous-user]

Aussie press car pictured earlier:



Edna Everage:

[rlc18]

I would LITERALLY give my left NUT for this car. Seriously who wants to give me an RS6 for my nut?... seriously people.

It does everything you could possibly want a car to do in my books (so much space for activities!) and looks absolutely immense whilst doing it. Personally I don't think there is a meaner looking car sold in Britain today, especially any of its competitors.

in Matt Grey or whatever they call their deep dark grey, oh Jebus yes...

[DoubleSix]

Chris Harris said:

DoubleSix said:

You know when people rail against something popular, just because it's popular and therefore you don't want to be popular because you're cool and cool people don't follow the crowd.

That is, I believe, what is happening with Chris' continual knocking of tinted glass.

Edited by DoubleSix on Thursday 28th August 15:16

Yes, that's it. No practical or aesthetic considerations involved in the opinion at all.

Come, come. Not everyone who specs them is a wannabe gangster. They offer lots of practical benefits and clearly, whilst subjective, those with an eye for aesthetics think they look pleasing as every marketing photo of a new model has them airbrushed in, including the blooming windscreen!

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.

[405dogvan]

Clivey said:

The problem though with pretty much all "premium" cars these days is that they're so overly complicated that they'll be ruinous to one's wallet once out of warranty...

I think we must remember that a manufacturer does not care what happens to a car beyond it's first owner/warranty period (and I'm talking the comprehensive warranty period plus goodwill - not the every-more-fleeting bits of warranty when it really only covers a lightning strike you can prove came from God's own hand)

Cars are made to appeal to people, not on a list price basis but a monthly rental basis (as the majority of new cars are leased in some form) and so the cost of fixing stuff later isn't even a factor (whoever put the oil pump on a Mk1 TT where it is, understood this pretty well!)

We often talk of the arms-race for power but I think the more worrying arms-race is with trinkets and add-ons - so many trinkets as standard, so many more trinkets on the options list. We used-to-talk of options being worthless at resale but there are so many now that the reality is NOT taking them devalues your car (rather than taking them adding value) - possibly to the point that it becomes bloody hard to sell.

In a market with far more used cars than people want - that's worse than losing money on options!?

Edited by 405dogvan on Thursday 28th August 15:36

[PtheP]

Twice as much on extras as I have even spent (of my own money) on a car! Some of us inhabit different worlds ...................

[GilesGuthrie]

Audi continuing to do a Porsche with the options list. I remember going through the configurator on an £85,000 V10 RS6 for a laugh once. They wanted £810 for Keyless Go, which was standard equipment on my £30K Renault Espace...

[yellowbentines]

Chris Harris said:

BTW, this was the Aussie press car with the satin trim blacked-out.

Looks better debadged without that naff 'quattro' stamped on the front grille.

Are my eyes deceiving me or does your car not have the grille mounted fog/driving lights Chris? The Aussies went for the optional £750 auxiliary inclement illumination pack perhaps?

[Chris Harris]

DoubleSix said:

Come, come. Not everyone who specs them is a wannabe gangster. They offer lots of practical benefits and clearly, whilst subjective, those with an eye for aesthetics think they look pleasing as every marketing photo of a new model has them airbrushed in, including the blooming windscreen!

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.

Because of UK law you can't have them all tinted and I think that really breaks-up the shape of the glass-house in profile. So I just have rear blinds for the kids and tell the dog not to wear a heavy jumper.

[405dogvan]

Chris Harris said:

Because of UK law you can't have them all tinted and I think that really breaks-up the shape of the glass-house in profile. So I just have rear blinds for the kids and tell the dog not to wear a heavy jumper.

I also hate that 'part tinted' look cars get - it's a mix of "naff gangster", "not sure if van" and "part time hearse" (on anything close to black at least)

[montyvr6]

What's wrong with the old S2?

[anonymous-user]

Chris Harris said:

and tell the dog not to wear a heavy jumper.

Your wife is going to be livid if she reads that^^^^ ;-)