Audi A4 and A8 Look Similar or Not?
Audi A4 and A8 Look Similar or Not?

Poll: Audi A4 and A8 Look Similar or Not?

Total Members Polled: 59

Yes, they look similar: 66%
No, they don't look similar: 34%
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mrmr96

Original Poster:

13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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I'm trying to work out if I need to buy new glasses because me and another poster on here can't agree if these two cars look similar or not.
I've deliberately not mentioned my opinion in this OP, so would appreciate the other guy doing the same until the thread has a few votes on it.
Cheers

A8:


A4:

chrissyr32

736 posts

206 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Yawwwnn...another Audi knocking thread to follow.

Kong

1,503 posts

194 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Well of course they look 'similar', they are both Audis of roughly the same vintage, you can include the A6 aswell.

I can see why a 'non-car' person could say they look the same but can I tell the difference? Very easily.

F1GTRUeno

6,512 posts

241 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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If you were really going to make this point then at least use the current A8 because it looks a lot more like the A4.

In any case it's very easy to tell which is the A8 and which isn't.

Just like not being able to tell current Aston Martins apart, it's a joke/observation that's been done to death

mrmr96

Original Poster:

13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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chrissyr32 said:
Yawwwnn...another Audi knocking thread to follow.
I'm not knocking either car - lets get that clear. I just wanted a concensus of opinion on whether the exterior looks similar or not, with no suggestion of whether that would or wouldn't be a good or bad thing!

Think of it as an eye test rather than a judegment on the cars.

mrmr96

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13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Kong said:
can I tell the difference? Very easily.
That wasn't the question either - OF course you can tell the difference, one is considerably larger than the other and there's several different stying details which clearly set the appart as different models of car.

The question is whether they look "similar" or not.

mrmr96

Original Poster:

13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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F1GTRUeno said:
If you were really going to make this point then at least use the current A8 because it looks a lot more like the A4.

In any case it's very easy to tell which is the A8 and which isn't.

Just like not being able to tell current Aston Martins apart, it's a joke/observation that's been done to death
Read the OP - there's no agenda - just an "eye test" because me and this other guy disagreed and I want to know know whether I'm wrong or right.

deeen

6,283 posts

268 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Can we have a 3rd option, for "Looks more like a Passat"?

va1o

16,096 posts

230 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Can easily tell the difference IMO, but yes they do look similar, like most cars would if built by the same manufacturer during the same era.

deeen said:
Can we have a 3rd option, for "Looks more like a Passat"?
Are you still living in the 90s and think the A4/ A8 are related to the Passat?

F1GTRUeno

6,512 posts

241 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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mrmr96 said:
Read the OP - there's no agenda - just an "eye test" because me and this other guy disagreed and I want to know know whether I'm wrong or right.
Except in the other thread you said it looks too much like an A4 so there is very clearly an agenda.

mrmr96

Original Poster:

13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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F1GTRUeno said:
Except in the other thread you said it looks too much like an A4 so there is very clearly an agenda.
At least reflect accurately what I said about the A8:
mrmr96 said:
Looks like an A4 from the outside. frown That's my main gripe with these - they are prestige, but don't look it.
I wouldn't call that an agenda, it's just my personal opinion, which I didn't mention on this thread until you just brought it up. smile

deeen

6,283 posts

268 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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va1o said:
Can easily tell the difference IMO, but yes they do look similar, like most cars would if built by the same manufacturer during the same era.

deeen said:
Can we have a 3rd option, for "Looks more like a Passat"?
Are you still living in the 90s and think the A4/ A8 are related to the Passat?
I thought the A4 was a Golf, and the A6 was a Passat? smile

Anyway no, first quick glance at that pic on the other thread I thought it was a Passat, didn't fit the context so I looked closer and realized my mistake.

Digger

16,106 posts

214 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Stand by my original vague thought in the other thread. First pic still looks like a Phaeton!

smile

McSam

6,753 posts

198 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Oh, I thought you meant the current models

These ones, I actually quite like how distinctive the A8 is, it has a massive presence on the road that you cannot mistake. Even in that crap photo this one just looks.. superior, you know?

Digger

16,106 posts

214 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Just to check that we are only referring to photos yes? There have been times when i have viewed pics of my own car an A6 Avant variant and thought it had similar proportions to its A4 sibling. Note, not size, as size perception can alter from photos, hence the confusion?

mrmr96

Original Poster:

13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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Digger said:
Just to check that we are only referring to photos yes? There have been times when i have viewed pics of my own car an A6 Avant variant and thought it had similar proportions to its A4 sibling. Note, not size, as size perception can alter from photos, hence the confusion?
Yup, proportions not size really.

va1o

16,096 posts

230 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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How long before this turns into another Audi bashing thread?

Here's a statistic, last year after Ford, Vauxhall, VW and BMW, Audi where the 5th biggest selling brand in the UK for new car sales.

tr7v8

7,542 posts

251 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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va1o said:
How long before this turns into another Audi bashing thread?

Here's a statistic, last year after Ford, Vauxhall, VW and BMW, Audi where the 5th biggest selling brand in the UK for new car sales.
And don't figure in the Top 100 reliable cars! http://www.reliabilityindex.com/top-100

mrmr96

Original Poster:

13,736 posts

227 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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va1o said:
How long before this turns into another Audi bashing thread?
Hopefully never because that wasn't the intention at all. frown

kambites

70,720 posts

244 months

Friday 13th January 2012
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They look similar in pictures but completely different in the metal.