k1e1v1i1n;111517 Wrote:
I totally agree. It looks like they slapped a stainless steel frying
pan on the front. Audi's have an elegance about them. I notice everybody
looks at a BMW when it drives by thinking "Man, that guy must be rich".
Then an AUDI drives by and they think "Man, that's a nice car."

Point is, it's not about a status symbol with Audi. It is the quaint
Bruce Banner until you step on the pedal and make it angry.. out comes
roaring the Hulk.

(IMO)


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OH9EH4

OH9EH4 wrote:
Doesn't work that way in the UK. Here Audi drivers have a bigger image
problem than most. It used to be BMW drivers who were considered to be
the most self-important idiots on the road, but in the last few years
Audi drivers seem to have taken the baton and they're running with it.

Doesn't help that Audi have fitted daytime running lights to their new
cars, and that the new cars are the ones being driven by the cocks. Now
they're likely to cut you up in traffic and be glaringly obvious doing so.

There are a whole load of badly driven Q7s, R8s and RS6s around here.

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Pete M - OMF#9

'62 Rover P4 100
'61 Rover P5 3 litre
'72 Rover P6 3500 Auto
'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 Audi A6 V6 Quattro Avant


"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will piss you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Pete M wrote:

I can't speak to the 2009's, but the 2010's have switchable daytime
running lights, at least in the US. I've turned mine off.

Steve

Steve Thompson wrote:
I wondered if they were switchable, but I've not noticed any with them
off. That could be because the ones that are on are so easily spotted,
and from what I've observed, pretty badly driven.

Then again, when I've had Volvos I've always turned the bloody things off.

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Pete M - OMF#9

'62 Rover P4 100
'61 Rover P5 3 litre
'72 Rover P6 3500 Auto
'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 Audi A6 V6 Quattro Avant


"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will piss you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."

Pete M <pete.murray (AT) SPAMFREEblueyonder (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Gear) generally round here I think most people still think it is the BMW
drivers that are cocks.

you weren't paying attention the BMWs could easily have been something
else.

Not so many of those around here, which is probably why for now we Audi
drivers haven't got that bad a reputation.
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When Audi first came out with the BIG GRILL in the A4, I thought it was
ugly, and I still do. But when it hit the A3 it looked a bit sleeker,
then A5 made it look great and on the new TT it looks stunning. So they
have refined the "Look" and it is improving. Nevertheless, if I were to
buy an A4 it would still be the 2005 model with the old style front.


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wallyr25