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Looks like confusion to me, that's a really polar statement - you had the GTR which was too much, and the RS6 wasn't enough. I wouldn't know where to go from that drama! The RS6 is a family estate, the GTR is a track weapon.Paulm wrote:I sold my 750-800bhp GTR and moved to the C7 RS6.
GTR was too extreme for me and not an everyday car, but as a toy it was fantastic. I only want one car (so it must do everything) and the GTR was not really the kind of car to have comfy quiet days away that maybe included Tesco or home-based shopping along the way, but as a full on toy just to take out and play with it was a crazy crazy car. I kind of likened it to a Friday car. On a Monday driving it to work it was a bit annoying, being so hard, noisy, tram lines everywhere but as a Friday car coming home it was a blast, huge fun and excitement massive grin on your face.
RS6 gone now as well though as not enough fun for me. Its a great car out of the box, very fast, comfy, quiet, lovely to drive but just was not for me. if you want to buy a car that is 90% great with nothing to do other than turn the key and go the C7 RS6 is for you. if you want something that maybe is not quiet so good and needs a bit of fettling then maybe not so much. I am in the second camp.
Spot on.vestax32 wrote:I agree, if I didn't have a family and a dog to cart around I would have Porsche. If I had more money I would have both. But as I don't, the 6 is as close as you can get to a car that does everything.
boff wrote:Spot on.vestax32 wrote:I agree, if I didn't have a family and a dog to cart around I would have Porsche. If I had more money I would have both. But as I don't, the 6 is as close as you can get to a car that does everything.
boff wrote:Looks like confusion to me, that's a really polar statement - you had the GTR which was too much, and the RS6 wasn't enough. I wouldn't know where to go from that drama! The RS6 is a family estate, the GTR is a track weapon.Paulm wrote:I sold my 750-800bhp GTR and moved to the C7 RS6.
GTR was too extreme for me and not an everyday car, but as a toy it was fantastic. I only want one car (so it must do everything) and the GTR was not really the kind of car to have comfy quiet days away that maybe included Tesco or home-based shopping along the way, but as a full on toy just to take out and play with it was a crazy crazy car. I kind of likened it to a Friday car. On a Monday driving it to work it was a bit annoying, being so hard, noisy, tram lines everywhere but as a Friday car coming home it was a blast, huge fun and excitement massive grin on your face.
RS6 gone now as well though as not enough fun for me. Its a great car out of the box, very fast, comfy, quiet, lovely to drive but just was not for me. if you want to buy a car that is 90% great with nothing to do other than turn the key and go the C7 RS6 is for you. if you want something that maybe is not quiet so good and needs a bit of fettling then maybe not so much. I am in the second camp.
Fair play, I'm up in Aberdeen every week at the moment - what have you moved to? Week before last I had time to visit the dealers, massive amounts of stock! Mercedes had some lovely things in, useless for anything but the dry returned by people who had gone bonkers about depreciation and market volatility. Audi - the same, lots of RS's/R8's sat there. Heck Porsche even had a GT3 RS and GT4 sat in the shop.
The Oil Price has delayed my RS6 only slightly, and 90% there is subjective. For now I have the Ferrari Golf which I would describe as fettling, and I do sit in that camp on many days - soon enough the Ferrari Golf Plus is going in for an Audi 3.2 DSG Quattro (plus turbo) transplant, and all the racing gear underneath. That's a fettler which will be good to drive on limited days of the week, at extreme pace. (Just FYI we're looking for 550BHp, in a beaten up Golf!)
The RS6 which believe me is imminent (awaiting a deal in Aberdeen funnily) is 100% for the following use case:
I want to have a family with me whilst I enjoy my car and shift big stuff, and not really care. Example I want to go for Christmas to the family, and in a car that I enjoy. Or I want to go across Europe to some location on a driving holiday with the family. And reliably.
If I'd no family it would be a 911 Turbo to do the same job. If I wanted extreme car fun it would be a McLaren / GT3 / Fezza all day long. If I was even richer I'd be buying a Panamera Shooting brake Turbo S or a Ferrari FF - Or GTthingyLusso.
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