RE: Audi launches new range-topping Q8

RE: Audi launches new range-topping Q8

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Gandahar

9,600 posts

129 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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There are photos out there which make the front look worse

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/suvs/brand-new-au...

The ones picked by Audi UK PR dept, sorry, PH team, on here tend to make that front grille less in your face.

The back looks good.

One in white will look massive.


King Steffy

64 posts

138 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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kambites said:
King Steffy said:
SFO said:
lots of Lamborghini Urus cues inside and out
No joke...First thing I thought...Lambo owners won't be too happy...It really does have so much Lambo Urus about it...
Considering that, it will make the feel-good factor even stronger...lesser if you're the Lambo owner !
I don't see it in the interior - this looks pretty much identical to the A8 to me (unsurprisingly, really).
Possibly however when driving by, I think it's exterior is visually similar...That's what counts to many people probably...

Gandahar

9,600 posts

129 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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swisstoni said:
I suppose a few Q7 owners will shrink a little bit now. There's a Q out there with a higher number !
I heard from a friend who works for them in Germany that there will be a Q9, and also, the big kicker, that is not a decimal 9... because Audi are using Hexadecimal woohoo

I'm going to buy the QB when it comes out, all 3 tonnes of it.

alorotom

11,944 posts

188 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Doesn't actually look that large really and not sure about the frameless doors.

I so wanted to love it and I just don’t

CaptainRAVE

360 posts

113 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Looking at the back of that I think the crusade has well and truly ended.

2Btoo

3,429 posts

204 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Tim bo said:
kambites said:
It looks... suitable for the market.
yes

absolute gash
From this:



... to the monstrosity above.

How the mighty have fallen.

SmartVenom

462 posts

170 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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You can guarantee that when you’ve parked in a nice quite spot in the car park you’ll come back to find one of these things parked half an inch from your door. Probably with a baby seat in the back.

mattwhite709

328 posts

100 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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That front grill is hideous, why is it soooooo big?

There used to be a time when I was a big Audi fan boy around 2005ish for around 10 years. The only models in their line up now that I like is the current A6 which will be gone by the end of the year and the TT which is around 3 or 4 yeard old now.

Not liking the current design language at all. Thats why I have an f31 3 series touring now.

hyphen

26,262 posts

91 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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swisstoni said:
I suppose a few Q7 owners will shrink a little bit now. There's a Q out there with a higher number !
Don't be daft. They only bought the Q7 as they needed the 7 seats, no other reason at all...

techguyone

3,137 posts

143 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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That grille even makes Ford's efforts on the Kuga/Edge/Ranger look miniscule.

hyphen

26,262 posts

91 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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SmartVenom said:
You can guarantee that when you’ve parked in a nice quite spot in the car park you’ll come back to find one of these things parked half an inch from your door. Probably with a baby seat in the back.
Last week in the Aldi, a bloke parked up his shed next to a Q7. The middle aged female driver came back and had to climb through the passenger side laugh

XMT

3,801 posts

148 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Sad times with audi seem to think that their Audi Q8 by all accounts is a high end model alluding to a 'sportier' side of Sports Utility Vehicles has a pathetic engine option!

At the very least even as a base model it should have had 360 bhp on tap. Utterly pathetic

hyphen

26,262 posts

91 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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mattwhite709 said:
That front grill is hideous, why is it soooooo big?
Looks well 'ard!

I read the I-pace review elsewhere and it noted that it doesn't actually need the grill on it for cooling, being electric, but Jag stuck with the design anyway. I wonder if the electric revolution will take away the grills long term, Tesla for example didn't go that design route with the X.

PHPH

17 posts

105 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Well, call me a party pooper if you must, but all I see is yet another oversized overpriced overrated and completely unnecessary vehicle.

Sadly, it will sell in its thousands.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

127 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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mattwhite709 said:
That front grill is hideous, why is it soooooo big?

CABC

5,589 posts

102 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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that won't date well.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

235 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Gandahar said:
The ones picked by Audi UK PR dept, sorry, PH team, on here tend to make that front grille less in your face.
It looks like it could happily hoover up a great dane and a toddler.



Imagine seeing that bearing down in your rear-view mirror. I guess you won't have to imagine for very long and suspect it will rapidly become a reality.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

127 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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CABC said:
that won't date well.
How long's the PCP?

LuS1fer

41,139 posts

246 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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Hmmm...the Kuwait.
They could have an electric version called the iRan
People would ask "What car dubai?" and then say "O-man!" or "Ye-men!" as their Qatar gently weeps.

The crazy thing is that the Americans have just finished slagging off the face of the new Camaro...but next to the Audi, it looks like a beauty queen



Edited by LuS1fer on Tuesday 5th June 15:12

Rawwr

22,722 posts

235 months

Tuesday 5th June 2018
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LuS1fer said:
Bear with me on this one because it need a little stretch but...

Pikachu drinking from an oversized coffee cup!