What's the most 'un-PH' car?
What's the most 'un-PH' car?
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PaperCut

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640 posts

176 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Using unscientific calculations, collected from various posts by members on here i think it's this ;



An Audi A5 2.7 TDi S-Line Multitronic Coupe in white.

Why? Well ;

It's an Audi - endless bashing posts/threads
It's a diesel - endless bashing posts/threads
It's a mid-spec diesel engine (offering neither the performance of a 3.0TDi or the economy of the 2.0TDi) - endless bashing posts/threads
It's FWD - endless bashing posts/threads
It's Automatic - endless bashing posts/threads
It's a Multitronic Auto - - endless bashing posts/threads
It's White - endless bashing posts/threads
It's an 'S-Line' - endless bashing posts/threads
It's an A5 - well i think you'll know it by now...

That's quite a check list don't you think?

Now i'm not creating an Audi/Diesel/FWD/Auto-bashing thread, and i don't actually think it's that bad a car - i wouldn't have one personally - and i know it's cliched, but as a true car enthusiast i like all cars. It just struck me how there is a car out there that could be tailored to an 'un-PH' spec (by quite a few others standards)!

...i'm guessing the opposite would be a black MX-5 1.8? biggrin

The Wookie

14,209 posts

257 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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You missed the Cabrio version

B'stard Child

31,099 posts

275 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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scratchchin

Garlick

40,601 posts

269 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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If you own it, and like it, then that's fine.

PH is an attitude hippy

Gwagon111

4,422 posts

190 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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MX5

zaphod42

59,482 posts

184 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Garlick said:
If you own it, and like it, then that's fine.

PH is an attitude hippy
What the man said.

It's not what you have, it's how you drive it....

miniman

30,051 posts

291 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Garlick said:
If you own it, and like it, then that's fine.

PH is an attitude hippy


scratchchin

mikeveal

5,115 posts

279 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Still doesn't trump the hatefull box of nappy hauling, involvement free mundanity that Toyota proudly badge "Prius".

mikeveal

5,115 posts

279 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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mikeveal said:
Still doesn't trump the hatefull box of nappy hauling, involvement free mundanity that Toyota proudly badge "Prius".
Beaten to it by seconds....

Spanna

3,737 posts

205 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Un-PH criteria:

  • Awful performance; handling, acceleration, engine noise, braking
  • Ugly
  • Unreliable
  • Boring
The Audi is a decent looking Coupe, with a fairly decent engine and you can spec a nice interior. I suspect it brakes well (probably over-servoed as most modern VAGs are) and it's quite quick by a diesel's standard.

Having said that, I would not want an A5, unless it's the V8.

Negative Creep

26,075 posts

256 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Classic Grad 98

26,505 posts

189 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Vauxhall Signum.

rubbish and gimmicky.

Garlick

40,601 posts

269 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Negative Creep said:
Err, maybe my earlier comment doesn't cover that.....unless in a one make race series held at the monthly Sunday Service

Dave Hedgehog

16,335 posts

233 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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lotus

SWoll

22,820 posts

287 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Dave Hedgehog said:
lotus
Go on then Dave, enlighten us as to why...

PaperCut

Original Poster:

640 posts

176 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Spanna said:
Un-PH criteria:

  • Awful performance; handling, acceleration, engine noise, braking
  • Ugly
  • Unreliable
  • Boring
The Audi is a decent looking Coupe, with a fairly decent engine and you can spec a nice interior. I suspect it brakes well (probably over-servoed as most modern VAGs are) and it's quite quick by a diesel's standard.

Having said that, I would not want an A5, unless it's the V8.
I knew this would happen, classic PH, re-read the OP! = I'm not saying the A5 is the most Un-PH car - i'm saying if you put all the ingredients of everything that is hated by most PHers into an imaginary calculator, this specific model would be the result.

I would think if you put the ingredients of what they like you'd end up with a TVR of some sort - i.e ; Petrol, RWD, N/A V8, Manual...etc.

Get it?

I too go by the mantra, it's not what you drive it's how you drive.

Negative Creep

26,075 posts

256 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Garlick said:
Negative Creep said:
Err, maybe my earlier comment doesn't cover that.....unless in a one make destruction derby held at the monthly Sunday Service
EFA. Although admittedly it wouldn't last very long

Pints

18,451 posts

223 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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Classic Grad 98 said:
Vauxhall Signum.

rubbish and gimmicky.
I'd love one of those.

bennyboydurham

1,617 posts

203 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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I get the sentiment (driven wheels at wrong end, wrong colour, daft DRLs, 'thrusty' image) but in the real world any of us would be more than happy driving around in an A5. When I think of a totally un-PH car that would depress me at the prospect of climbing into I think of this:


Dave Hedgehog

16,335 posts

233 months

Thursday 2nd February 2012
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SWoll said:
Dave Hedgehog said:
lotus
Go on then Dave, enlighten us as to why...
it doesn't sound like a golf