"Its Road-dominating Dimensions...."

[dickew]

One word. Canyonero.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&a...

[Polite M135 driver]

The Audi Q8, so named because it’s the size of a small country.

[Hobbit1]

You can dominate the road in any vehicle, I do in my iQ all the time. Why on Earth would you need such an excessively large car?!

[RedWhiteMonkey]

I'm sure its a lovely place to sit in but it is too big. I was parked at the ferry terminal in Helsinki a few weeks ago in our VW T6 California, there was a delivery of Q8s next to us and I'm sure it is bigger than the T6.

[FiF]

Didn't notice all this frothing over, say, FFRR, 1.99m width excl mirrors, still miles too bloody big though.

[Boosted LS1]

^ They seem to like a race from time to time :-)

[Howard-]

I heard it the other day, and I too initially thought I had just imagined it. But then I realised it's probably designed to appeal to the mindset of the average Audi-driving bellend.

[TooMany2cvs]

Polite M135 driver said:

The Audi Q8, so named because it’s the size of a small country.

Not because of a fondness for...

[kambites]

dickew said:

One word. Canyonero.

That was my first thought.

[kambites]

TooMany2cvs said:

jamei303 said:

It's a lot smaller than most artics, I don't hear anyone complaining that lorries more than 2 metres wide are too big.

Quite. People forget roads are sized for things other than cars.

There's quite a lot of roads which couldn't take an artic though. In my experience there's quite a lot of roads where it creates carnage if two transits meet each-other going in opposite directions; they work because vehicles that wide are rare so such meetings aren't very common... if mainstream cars get that wide such roads will just grind to a halt.

Admittedly these things are still a good 10cm narrower than a full-sized transit. I suspect the owners are, on average, going to be less happy than Mr White Van Man to scrape their paintwork and wheels along the hedges at the side of the road, though.

[TooMany2cvs]

kambites said:

There's quite a lot of roads which couldn't take an artic though.

Artics are no wider than bin wagons, fire engines, the supermarket's home-delivery van...

[kambites]

TooMany2cvs said:

Artics are no wider than bin wagons, fire engines, the supermarket's home-delivery van...

Yup, there's loads of roads they wont fit on either.

Not a problem as long as the drivers are sensible and use suitable routes but every now and then some idiot truck driver tries to use a car sat-nav and gets stuck.

[jamei303]

Perhaps those complaining should volunteer to trade in their current car for a Renault Twizzy and give the rest of us more space.

[KerwinRobertson]

I can see the Q building of powerfully built company directors Q'ing for the Q8 so they can dominate the road/stairs/wife.

Ok....I will get my coat.....

[kambites]

jamei303 said:

Perhaps those complaining should volunteer to trade in the current car for a Renault Twizzy and give the rest of us more space.

The issue isn't really a Q8 meeting a car on a narrow road, it's a Q8 meeting a Q8. Such vehicles work fine as long as they're relatively rare. Fortunately (perhaps slightly ironically) they're likely to mostly be bought in cities where it's less of an issue than in the countryside.

I'd imagine anyone who frequents single track roads in one will get pretty good at reversing very quickly.

Edited by kambites on Friday 21st September 09:05

[simo1863]

daft sales speak aside, it's actually smaller than a Q7 isn't it?

Or at least is a Q7 with a sloped back?

[kambites]

simo1863 said:

daft sales speak aside, it's actually smaller than a Q7 isn't it?

Or at least is a Q7 with a sloped back?

It's wider but lower and shorter than the Q7.

[TooMany2cvs]

kambites said:

I'd imagine anyone who frequents single track roads in one will get pretty good at reversing very quickly.

No, they'll just expect the less powerfully-built to get out of THEIR way.

[kambites]

TooMany2cvs said:

kambites said:

I'd imagine anyone who frequents single track roads in one will get pretty good at reversing very quickly.

No, they'll just expect the less powerfully-built to get out of THEIR way.

Is there a strictly defined pecking order based on model and then beneath that trim level and optional extras chosen?

Maybe they should add that as a feature AI to recognise whether the car coming the other way is more or less "road dominating" than yours and hence who should reverse?

[jamei303]

kambites said:

jamei303 said:

Perhaps those complaining should volunteer to trade in the current car for a Renault Twizzy and give the rest of us more space.

The issue isn't really a Q8 meeting a car on a narrow road, it's a Q8 meeting a Q8. Such vehicles work fine as long as they're relatively rare. Fortunately (perhaps slightly ironically) they're likely to mostly be bought in cities where it's less of an issue than in the countryside.

I'd imagine anyone who frequents single track roads in one will get pretty good at reversing very quickly.

Edited by kambites on Friday 21st September 09:05

You say this like the Q8 is a whole new class of wide SUV and there aren't numerous cars of similar width already on the roads.

What have two XC90 drivers been doing for the last few years when they meet each other on narrow country lanes?