RE: Audi D4 A8 facelift

RE: Audi D4 A8 facelift

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toppstuff

13,698 posts

246 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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These cars should come with a warning. No self-respecting private individual with a brain should buy one of these cars until they are at least 5 years old.

On no account should owners drop people off at airports in this car, UNLESS they intend to collect a fare paying tired and stressed middle management banker or lawyer who expects you to drive him to Weybridge.

Seriously, turn up at an airport in one of these and people will try to climb in the back of your car.


legacy4cam

60 posts

169 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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I also run a previous shape A8, and cannot believe that despite increasing the overall dimensions quite significantly, the boot space has been hugely decreased.

I really like driving my D3 shape car, not sure what could replace it for overall ownership experience.


scenario8

6,554 posts

178 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Dyl said:
matpilch said:
The Article said:
'dynamic turn signals'
what's that? I think I have missed the info in the r8 article
Easier to show than describe
Is it good that there's room on the internet for videos like that - or just sad that someone's gone to the effort to post and host it?

Fancy blinkers, mind.

Baryonyx

17,990 posts

158 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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toppstuff said:
Seriously, turn up at an airport in one of these and people will try to climb in the back of your car.
Yes, my old A8 used to attract those jibes from my colleagues, one day it was the "airport taxi", the next it was the "Russian Diplomat's car". hehe

matpilch

246 posts

139 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Dyl said:
Easier to show than describe
seems a bit pointless to me

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

189 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Apart from looking rather like a bland Passat, I'm not sure this can be called facelift. Facechange maybe. wink

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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IainT said:
surveyor said:
Another luxury steering wheel that I don't like...

Why do they look like they are made out of bakelite nowadays?
Looks pretty much identical to the one in my A5 and, in the leather (so to speak), it's really quite pleasant to use. The controls also fall very nicely to thumb access...
S class -

Your right though, I've never like the audi wheel's since they went to this design.

Amirhussain

11,486 posts

162 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Only like the D2 & D3 shape A8's, not too big a fan of this, don't like the 'pointy' lights.


Timbola

1,956 posts

139 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Are those pictures of an A4, an A6 or an A8?

I can't tell. confused

MycroftWard

5,983 posts

212 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Although derivative of their other models it's a good looking, well proportioned car for me.

Digga

40,206 posts

282 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Timbola said:
Are those pictures of an A4, an A6 or an A8?

I can't tell. confused
Foolscap, err no, sorry, letterhead.

rtz62

3,340 posts

154 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Always liked the A8, but the advent of newe improved competitors it looks to be falling behind.
Unfortunately, to me it looks like Audi have just got lazy and xerox'd the A4, increasing it in photocopy size increasingly to become the A6 /A8.
Likewise the interiors, whilst efficient, are just bland copies of each other.
To me the last true great, and individual Audi's were the Ur Quattro, and the A2 (even that was derivative inside).
Come on Audi, up your game!

MyCC

337 posts

156 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Despite the fact that Audi's sales are rising and rising here in the UK, they have never had much success with the A8. Thats mainly because it doesn't bring anything new to the party, you would have to be a real Audi fan to choose this over an S Class.

Interestingly the sales of the BMW 7 Series have suffered since they moved to tone down the controversial styling, now they can't shift them.

Agree that Audi need to up their game on the design front of some of their cars. The A3, A4, A6, A8 look too nondescript nowadays and it will start to eat into sales once other Manufacturers start to compete by offering more interesting designs.

Regards,

MyCC.

IainT

10,040 posts

237 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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surveyor said:
S class - [snip]
Sorry but that's utterly vile.

Dilligaf10

2,431 posts

209 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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toppstuff said:
It is a corporate taxi.

Audi only really sell these to upmarket private hire firms.

Essentially, this car is Lufthansa business class on 4 wheels.
smile I run two A8L's

Dilligaf10

2,431 posts

209 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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For my purposes the A8 is better than the S Class. More luggage space and the quattro system feels more secure in bad weather and handy on rural roads.

Nors

1,291 posts

154 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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IainT said:
Sorry but that's utterly vile.
yes

I think someone already quoted that the Steering Wheel/Dash view on that s Class looks like a Clown!laugh

Nors

1,291 posts

154 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Dilligaf10 said:
For my purposes the A8 is better than the S Class. More luggage space and the quattro system feels more secure in bad weather and handy on rural roads.
About sums it up for me too.

jonny70

1,280 posts

157 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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[quote=McAndy

I honestly don't understand why people buy these (or the 7-series or S-Class for that matter) given the horrific depreciation. They must have truly disposable income and be ok with it. However I am glad that they do. smile
[/quote]


They dont .I know someone with a 12 plate audi a8 they lease them rent them and pay £400-£500 a month for a 7 series/a8/s-class/xj
and the rest are bought/leased by chauffeur companies/business

How may people walk into a dealer and say can i have a brand new a8 heres 70k etc


IainT

10,040 posts

237 months

Wednesday 21st August 2013
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Nors said:
IainT said:
Sorry but that's utterly vile.
yes

I think someone already quoted that the Steering Wheel/Dash view on that s Class looks like a Clown!laugh
It's the wood that really puts me off.