Cars We Drive!

[GreenFrog]

Wow didn't see that coming at all. Respect. Do whatever you want.

 

[bawlin]

Nice. What colour combo? Post some pics if you can! And I feel you re: DCT. While more spartan in nature, I almost preferred SMG to it but that might also have something to do with me preferring the old M3 to the new 5. Obviously 6-speed would rule all.

My day 3 update: steering is heavy and fantastic. One of the best things about the car.

 

[Find Finn]



Wagons look silly. I'm assuming you're either a soccer mom or from europe if you have any interest in them.

The later and fast wagons rule, they are inconspicuous, blistering fast and you can carry 4 people a dog and all your crap.



A mate of mine just got a W212 E63S 4-matic, which is going in for a little 800hp tune up.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

I'm not a big Audi guy but I'd have no issue rockin' an RS4 Avant...



I also happen to LOVE the FF because of its wagon-esque appearance (though I'm probably in the minority)...

I love the FF

 

[Find Finn]

 

[Superfluous]

What's with all the station wagon and hatchback love?

 

[poorsod]



What's with all the station wagon and hatchback love?

Apparently the extra weight over the back axle of the wagon helps in acceleration. There is a review where they preferred the 4 matic e63 wagon AMG over the sedan because the back weight helps correct the under steer. Personally, I prefer cars that go ridiculously fast to look anything but.

 

[HRoi]

But the extra weight will make it more of a ***** to launch. I suppose instrumented testing doesn't lie though

 

[horndog]

Argh, I universally loathe fast hatchbacks and wagons. FF, Avants, down to the WRX. "To each their own" and all that but it's too much compromise and they just look too utilitarian.

 

[Superfluous]



Apparently the extra weight over the back axle of the wagon helps in acceleration. There is a review where they preferred the 4 matic e63 wagon AMG over the sedan because the back weight helps correct the under steer. Personally, I prefer cars that go ridiculously fast to look anything but.

Do you drive as fast as you can to work everyday?

 

[Huntsman]

What's with all the station wagon and hatchback love?

I love all GT cars, and some hatchbacks are like mini-GT cars, so I kind of get that (plus I drive an M Coupe), but I have never, ever understood, in any way, why people love wagons/estates. They are always ugly. The only thing about them is the notion that they are contradictory: a utility style vehicle with, sometimes, ridiculous performance simply because it can be done. To me, that is just mashing together things that have no need to be together.

~ H

 

[poorsod]



Do you drive as fast as you can to work everyday?

Where I am, you can be pulled over even if you are going just a little faster than the pace of traffic. A friend of mine got pulled over even though he was going the pace of traffic (cops had a speed trap that pulled several cars in a row). I suspect traffic tickets are an additional source of income for the local government. Better not to be noticed IMO.

 

[impolyt_one]

The FF is too insect-like for my tastes. It's also huge and yet doesn't have a 'wow look at that Ferrari' presence about it.

My wagon love has been waning lately. I think it depends on the city where you live, the surrounding cars, the architecture and roads that frame them, and your station in life (it's more romantic to have a hi-perf wagon when you are a family man and like utility plus the cachet) - and we're not talking regular forest green over beige 520d and E500 wagons and ****, I'm talking M5T's, E63T's, RS4's, Alfa 159's, and so on. I think it helps if you're in a surrounding where there are other wagons as a normal form factor, and the high performance stanced-out versions stick out, like Japan or Europe. One of my fond memories of Tokyo way back was when I was just a student and I saw all these little Japanese housewives driving white (then-brand new) W211 E55T's - all that chrome badging, the quad pipes, the bulbous E55 stance and aero, the big brakes - that was like a real movement I saw at the time, it was so fresh to me having come from America, and it looked awesome in Tokyo.

 

[brokeassp]

Good to see some fellow BRZ/FR-S owners in here

 

[Gravitas]

I like having the extra space of a wagon. Also, I feel like some wagons have a better balance about them than their sedan counterparts.

I like the FF a lot in person, I find it to be just a striking as the F12. To each his own.

Also, there are relatively few current cars I like as much as the A4/S4/RS4 Avant/Allroad (in terms of styling).

Here's one from the weekend: