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Audi ugly new designs

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  • #32
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    the country must be full of skangers with good credit scores then.

    It's full of 40 something year old skangers at that


  • #33
    ba_barabus
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Wash out your mouth.

    Sorry I must be confused with the A5 morphing into a hatchback A4.


  • #34
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Needles73 wrote: »
    And there was I going trading it against a new 162, I'll hold steady so

    You'll have to anyway.. like myself with an 11 year old A6, the insurance is starting to become an issue because it's suddenly "old".

    Whatever about the ridiculous tax system discrepancy and insurance costs generally, forcing people into upgrading still perfectly good cars because they can't get insurance is a massive issue that I'm surprised more hasn't been made of.


  • #35
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    ...forcing people into upgrading still perfectly good cars because they can't get insurance is a massive issue that I'm surprised more hasn't been made of.

    Yep, I'm also confused about why nobody seems to have a problem with this. If you go to other EU countries, there are plenty of 15 and even 20 years old cars running around no issue whatsoever - last time I was in Italy I was amazed about how many old model Panda there were around. Those cars are pushing 30 years old in many cases. To Irish insurers, they'd be considered "impossible risk". Together with the tax farce, it points out to SIMI having quite more influence on institutions than it should have...


    About the Audi designs, while I would be very, very, very hard pressed to find any of them appealing at any level, I didn't dislike the last two previous models A4s.

    The new one has the now ubiquitous "bulging nose", that was actually introduced by Volvo on the S60 rather than BMW; I can guess that if everyone is going that direction is rather about aerodynamics than pure design - it does have an effect of fuel consumption and nowadays, 1 Km/L of difference will likely skew the buyer one way or the other.

    It's funny as the current trend is to make bigger, plumper cars than even before - Friday I parked the 159, a car that was notoriously huge at the time for a D segment, side by side with a latest model Mazda 6 and the Alfa looked terminally anorexic in comparison.


  • #36
    Giacomo McGubbin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Giacomo McGubbin


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    You'll have to anyway.. like myself with an 11 year old A6, the insurance is starting to become an issue because it's suddenly "old".

    Whatever about the ridiculous tax system discrepancy and insurance costs generally, forcing people into upgrading still perfectly good cars because they can't get insurance is a massive issue that I'm surprised more hasn't been made of.

    When it comes to this type of "clever" corruption, most Irish people prefer to stick their head in the sand and their arses in the air as usual.


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  • #37
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #38
    ba_barabus
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    Patww79 wrote: »
    I always thought the A7 was like a hatchback A8 rather than a hatchback A6. It's still pig ugly from the rear doors back no matter what it is though anyway.

    I actually quiet like the A7, especially the rear! I'm not am Audi fan but it is a car I like.


  • #39
    Giacomo McGubbin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Giacomo McGubbin


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone else thinks that Audi's designs in the last 2 or 3 years are downright ugly.

    I really don't like the look of either the new TT or Q7.

    I'm now looking at pics of the new A5. They've gone BMW on it and have a huge curve on the front of the bonnet. Looks hideous from a profile angle.

    http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/audi/a5/95978/new-audi-a5-coupe-2016-review

    New A7 out shortly. No doubt they'll make a mess of that too.

    Audi's once used to be subtle and have class, but didnn't sell that well.
    Now they just look obnoxious, shout small mickey syndrome, and are as common as muck, making audi a fortune. Audi know their market now


  • #40
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    Audi know their market now
    Out of interest what do you drive?


  • #41
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,609 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    A7 shares most of its underpinnings with the A6, the same way a BMW 6 Series shares most of its underpinnings with a 5 Series and Mercedes CLS shares underpinnings with the E Class.


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  • #42
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,552 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    Audi's once used to be subtle and have class, but didnn't sell that well.
    Now they just look obnoxious, shout small mickey syndrome, and are as common as muck, making audi a fortune. Audi know their market now

    When did this change happen?
    What were the competition doing at the time? Is it a uniquely Audi thing?


  • #43
    Brian Scan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    Audi's have been skangermobilles for quite some time.

    They worked out they make a lot more money that way though.
    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    Maybe 20 years ago, nowadays it's skangers that can manage to get a finance company to take them on for a new audi, or if they get refused persuade some other firm to finance a passat for them. Audi and VW know what they are doing though, they sell far more catering for that market than they ever did for their old demographic.
    Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »
    Audi's once used to be subtle and have class, but didnn't sell that well.
    Now they just look obnoxious, shout small mickey syndrome, and are as common as muck, making audi a fortune. Audi know their market now

    Reasonable, rational points made without the hint of a sweeping generalisation. Well done sir.


  • #44
    ofcork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Audi must be doing something right the 1 millionth Q5 was produced last week!


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