Is there a bigger bargain?

[TW]Fox;22016047 said:
Thing is, the 3.2FSI is very nice too. And so is the 4.2. Yet you can actually use these without thinking 'Wow I just spent £130 on fuel and managed 200 miles, awesome'.

I've never quite understood the point in luxo-barges with a terrible tank range that discourages use of the car for the sort of journeys it was designed to do.

You really do need to have so much cash you don't care.
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If you're buying with your head of course, but then why would you be looking at the 3.2FSI or the 4.2 when there is the 2.0TDI?

Its not about having excessive amounts of cash, its your heart telling you that you want a S6 and therefore a 3.2 or a 4.2 simply will not suffice, no matter how financially more sensible one would be.
 
Joshy said:
If you're buying with your head of course, but then why would you be looking at the 3.2FSI or the 4.2 when there is the 2.0TDI?
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Because the 2.0TDI sucks?

The above two engines (less so the 4.2 but nothing like as bad as the 5.0) offer a useful tradeoff between niceness and usable range. There is no point having a car which has such a prodigous thirst you simply never take it anywhere. This doesn't mean you need 50mpg.

Its why I like mine so much. It's not a diesel, its a lovely smooth 3 litre six.

Yet I can drive from Scotland to the Devon/Cornwall border, or London and back, on a single tank of fuel at a cost which, whilst obviously more expensive than the same trip in a 4 pot diesel, isn't so huge that it makes you wonder what you are doing.

Its not about having excessive amounts of cash, its your heart telling you that you want a S6 and therefore a 3.2 or a 4.2 simply will not suffice, no matter how financially more sensible one would be.
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Then the novelty wears off and it's back in the classifieds once the 'Wow, S56' shine fades and 'Great, 200 miles from that tank, on the Motorway' blues begin to dominate.

The appeal of these cars is the combination of awesomeness and usability. If you are going to chuck usability out the window and focus on awesomeness because your heart says so then buy a Porsche not an Audi A6.

A combination of heart and head is best. Head helps the things the heart likes be sustainable.
 
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The other thing about these mega saloons is finding somewhere to exploit the power. You'd generally rather have a Clio Cup on a b-road as they are lumbering and huge, and motorways in this country are very congested, with an S6 barely ticking over at the legal limit. So you're spending thousands to run it for what - fun on sliproads?
 
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