OV9

TopGear Article

evo article

Maybe I am just getting old but will any of the owners notice a 47kg weight reduction? 2150-ish kg vs 2200-ish kg? Do owners today fill their fuel tanks and swear at the performance drop? Or curse their 13yr old when they jump into the passenger seat and ruin the experience?

Of course this is only one of a number of detail changes on the Performante that may combine to give a better overall drive, and yes every improvement is still an improvement, but these weight "boasts" just annoy me. Lambo has been guilty of this in the past - didn't they excitedly highlight a 13kg weight saving on one of the Diablo models? I'd have been ashamed to call that out....

The evo article touches on the marketing aspects - for customers for whom the numbers (pub bragging rights?) may be most important aspect to make (or break) a sale......

These cars aren't made for people that care about anything other than being seen in/having the latest thing.

I think the 16kg saving for the 306 Rallye over the GTi-6 fails into this category as well. Still didn't stop me buying one

I can loose 47kg by having a big poo

I still can't believe that these things are so popular they're selling for £50k plus over list for used scratched up examples. It's so ugly and so obviously just a rebodied Audi that I thought they'd depreciate quite a bit.

I like them, would buy one (except I’d now buy a 707), but even I think of them as a rebodied Audi/Cayenne..

And, as you say Mik, it’s not the weight reduction individually that improves the experience, but all the improvements taken as a whole (a-hole snigger)