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You’ve gone full Audi fanboi Jobbo, that Q7 is awful.

V8Granite wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:18 pm The Q7 is particularly cheap and nasty looking.

The Panamera is lovely.

Dave!

Dave! is completely spot on. But £70k for a five year old car ? What do those things cost new ??

The Audi front grille is a hideous mess

Yep, I think everyone agrees that Q7 grill is a spangly mess.

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:29 pm

Dave! is completely spot on. But £70k for a five year old car ? What do those things cost new ??

How much is just prices atm (and how much of that is ULEZs making E6 necessary and pushing their prices up)?

integrale_evo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:47 pm The Audi front grille is a hideous mess

Have you looked at a pre-facelift version with the radar stuff? This is well-integrated and elegant in comparison.

I acknowledge the Q7 is not a great looking car generally. It’s the engine which makes this one interesting, plus it’s a good colour scheme.

Not sure I’m willing to spend £60k+ on either car though. Still both look very suitable for my daily use.

DeskJockey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:56 pm Not a fan. What is the trend with making the gauge cluster look like a 90s stereo? I think your A6 is nicer.

I guess its very "on-trend", but I'm not sure how these interiors are going to age, especially when combined with lots of shiny trim all over the place. Feels like we're a middle-ground where designers are trying to figure out how to move from traditional analogue instrument design and what comes next.

Ascender wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:21 am

DeskJockey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:56 pm Not a fan. What is the trend with making the gauge cluster look like a 90s stereo? I think your A6 is nicer.

I guess its very "on-trend", but I'm not sure how these interiors are going to age, especially when combined with lots of shiny trim all over the place. Feels like we're a middle-ground where designers are trying to figure out how to move from traditional analogue instrument design and what comes next.

I sniggered at that description - as it’s spot on.

Audi didn’t even bother adding a Rev counter for the E-Tron. Pretty poor show.

I think it’s stupid that they all now have a full LCD display and still they don’t give you a proper interface to customise it how you want within reason - say like an Apple Watch face.

I'm not sure it's good value at £20k, but this very high spec F01 7-Series in Sundayjumper Silver:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 1189713213

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:08 pm I'm not sure it's good value at £20k, but this very high spec F01 7-Series in Sundayjumper Silver:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 1189713213

One (1) engineer owner from new!

Offer them a straight swap for the 740d?

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:08 pm I'm not sure it's good value at £20k...

WBAC say £10,260 which is presumably roughly what they paid for it.

I wonder how a straight piped 760 would sound

Mito Man wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:14 pm I wonder how a straight piped 760 would sound

Not bad!


3:47 onwards.

Very fruity and surprisingly exotic - suffers from the usual slurred auto box gear changes but still nice.

Huh. That does sound rather good.

Which is great fun for a 5 min YouTube vid but unless it’s also totally silent when cruising at 70mph it’ll get boring very very quickly.

I really like the curent continental GT

This would do nicely

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2020-Bentley ... 635-2958-0

Not a want of mine but I know there are a few sadists in here that have a love for the unreliable heaps that JLR turn out:

V8 Disco 4

Swervin_Mervin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:58 pm Not a want of mine but I know there are a few sadists in here that have a love for the unreliable heaps that JLR turn out:

V8 Disco 4

Paging @16vCento

One of you two should definitely buy that. Even I thought "oooh" for a split second before giving myself a mental slap

Oooo.

Not sure about the white though