super 4x4 hehe

gray2008 · Post by **gray2008** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:29 pm

oooh, i want one ... now where did i put that spare 70k

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArtic ... Q7/231585/

Leo · Post by **Leo** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:27 pm

Yeah it's a beast but how pointless!?

Did you read the comments forum on that site? I like this response:

cimardinius wrote: In the 14th century (and again, to a lesser extent, in the 18th) men took to wearing longer and longer shoes, as a display of how much they could afford to pay for them.

They got so long that they had to curl up the toes in a spiral and attach this with a strap to their thigh, as they had become totally unsuitable for their original purpose - to walk in.

However, the unsuitability of these shoes for purpose did not stop them - if the rhubarb in a neighbouring castle had got them, then they were going to have them too!

When social anthropologists look back (in a few hundred years) at idiotic manifestations of ego run riot, they will no doubt put these shoes and vehicles like this Audi in the same class of folly.

At least, now their students will have two good idiotic examples to laugh at.

:nodshead:

Post by **Punx0r** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:31 pm

I understand putting it in the R8 to prove a point, but with the Q7 haven't they purposely made the ultimate Chelsea tractor?

Aquila · Post by **Aquila** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:26 am

Punx0r wrote:I understand putting it in the R8 to prove a point, but with the Q7 haven't they purposely made the ultimate Chelsea tractor?

They've gone one better - a Richmond Panzer..!

Vard66 · Post by **Vard66** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:55 am

Toss that, spend 68 odd and get the tiptronic R8 instead. or 69 for a 911 Turbo... or just spend about forty odd and buy a pretty much perfect V Spec II Nur... or even the Z tuned R34....

gray2008 · Post by **gray2008** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:57 am

got to admit the R8 sounds good, 20mpg is pretty good in a 700ft/lb monster hehe

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:11 am

Got to agree, it's a tad pointless.

I see those Porshe 4x4 things about and they're about 500bhp odd, but seriously, what's the point, they're massive and ugly. I'd rather drive a much slower car which looks nice and wasn't the size of a house.

If you need a 4x4 buy a Land rover or a Toyota or something. If you want something fast and luxurious buy an Audi A8, if you just want something fast buy a feckin 2 seater. The whole SUV with a huge engine is just silly IMO, atleast in this country where most fast roads are full of corners. In the US it makes a bit more sense, but here it makes very little.