New Audi RS6 - 610BHP?

s0ck · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:07

Can I recommend lay-z-boy for man of honour this year?

It's all very well saying it wont be the driving experience a beamer is; most of us have families and blatting around roundabouts at 80 isn't top priority any more

Plus, we're lucky to get a weeksworth of sunshine these days ;/

lay-z-boy · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:08

Bennah said:
What did you your mum replace the RS6 with?

An A6......2L TDi

[TW]Fox · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:18

s0ck said:
It's all very well saying it wont be the driving experience a beamer is; most of us have families and blatting around roundabouts at 80 isn't top priority any more

If all your car is ever used for is transporting the family, why spend £60,000 on an ultra high performance car like this?

Alex UK · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:19

lay-z-boy said:
An A6......2L TDi

Care to explain why?

On the subject of M5 vs. RS6. Sure, the BMW may well be a better car to drive, but in the real world no one's going to notice.

It's simply impossible to push either of the cars to the limit on UK roads. If you were to take both cars to a track then the BMW would probably be labelled as a better drivers car. Fair enough.

However, for driving on the road, what people want is a fast, refined, comfortable, luxurious, classy, well-built, family carrying, cruising machine. That's the RS6.

Besides, the sort of person who's spending this amount of money on a car could probably afford something a little special for the weekends.

In the real world, the Audi RS6 is the better choice. Clarkson once said that for one lap of a track he'd take an M3, but for every other day he'd take an S4.

[TW]Fox · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:19

Tommy B said:
150,000 is a stupid sum of money. In fact you could almost get a 911 Turbo an R32 and an S3 for that.

Why would you want an R32 *and* an S3? To somebody who can afford a £150k car, an R32 is simply a VW Golf shopping trolley.

Bennah · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:21

lay-z-boy said:
An A6......2L TDi

Ouch. That was a bit of a backwards step...

s0ck · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:23

[TW]Fox;9989079 said:
If all your car is ever used for is transporting the family, why spend £60,000 on an ultra high performance car like this?

If you got 60k to burn I imagine you wanna drive in style, family or not

[TW]Fox · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:30

s0ck said:
If you got 60k to burn I imagine you wanna drive in style, family or not

But the point I'd making is that if you are interested enough in cars to buy that sort of thing you surely take it out alone at times

lay-z-boy · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:32

Alex UK said:
Care to explain why?

She very rarely used the power, decided that the running costs outweighed the power/speed as they were hardly ever used.

The tdi isn't bad, gets me to ocuk and back and can cruise on the mway at around 110...er 70

with some left to go, whilst using considerably less fuel.

Alex UK · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:35

lay-z-boy said:
She very rarely used the power, decided that the running costs outweighed the power/speed as they were hardly ever used.

The tdi isn't bad, gets me to ocuk and back and can cruise on the mway at around 110...er 70 with some left to go, whilst using considerably less fuel.

Fair enough then, the standard A6 is still a great car.

Bennah · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:35

Surely she would have thought about all that before she bought it.

Anyone could tell you that if you were thinking of buying an RS6, you got to way up the running costs / service costs etc first and whether you actually need a car like that.

Anyway, fair play to her. She has owned an RS6, not bad at all. I can only dream of owning one.

Tommy B · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:39

[TW]Fox;9989090 said:
Why would you want an R32 *and* an S3? To somebody who can afford a £150k car, an R32 is simply a VW Golf shopping trolley.

I dunno. If you have a thing for hatchbacks then either or would be an awesome choice.

If I were super rich I'd have one just to drive rubbish to the tip, or to use when I need to park in dodgy places like Bromley.

lay-z-boy · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:41

Indeed it was a major factor when first purchased, high cruising speeds were needed for her cross country journeys however after some months after she decided that she had had enough of driving and wanted something easier on the wallet and would no longer do these journeys. The 2 litre does the job.

Bennah · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:41

So you would have an R32 or S3 to park in 'dodgy' places?

Even if you were super rich, its still a bit stupid really is'nt it?

ironman · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:20

Tommy B said:
If I were that rich I'd probably save up for the SLR.

£150,000 is a stupid sum of money. In fact you could almost get a 911 Turbo an R32 and an S3 for that.

£150,000 is a stupid sum of money but £100,000 is not?

Tommy B · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:25

gurdas said:
£150,000 is a stupid sum of money but £100,000 is not?

Perhaps, but what I mean is it doesn't seem like the 65AMG justifies £50,000 over the 55AMG IMO.

[TW]Fox · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:26

Tommy has the same view of lots of money that I had at 17.

OMG I WOULD BUY LEIK 10 CITROEN XANTIAS!

Bennah · 28 Aug 2007 at 23:28

Never knew you had the Xantia when you were 17. Thought you were a little older for some reason.

ironman · 29 Aug 2007 at 00:21

Tommy B said:
Perhaps, but what I mean is it doesn't seem like the 65AMG justifies £50,000 over the 55AMG IMO.

There is no real justification, but the 65amg depreciates a lot and makes them a lot more tempting.

Tommy B · 29 Aug 2007 at 00:26

[TW]Fox;9989563 said:
Tommy has the same view of lots of money that I had at 17.

OMG I WOULD BUY LEIK 10 CITROEN XANTIAS!

what? Did I ever say that?

just because you despise hatchbacks it doesn't justify speaking rubbish!