[s-cars] New Q7

Tue Feb 19 04:10:26 PST 2008

Lee,
We demo'd a Q7 for a day or two last week, and I agree for the most part with your position, but would like to add that having the Side Assist and rear camera is a definite with the rear/side visibility issue being what it is.  Audi had to have known this to have put that system on the car/truck.

Otherwise, it is a great machine, and don't worry, the radio isn't at all that difficult to use on a regular basis.

--
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v sport
92 UrS4
01 allroad

---- Lee <Levitt at audifans.com> wrote: 
> Teddy,
> 
> Thanks, yes I was in Palo Alto yesterday. Actually was in Sausalito 
> on Saturday, looks like a wonderful place to watch a bike race.
> 
> The race was great...it was awesome seeing nothing but people and 
> bikes on University Drive in downtown Palo Alto. Spend some time in 
> the VIP tent overlooking the finish...that was pretty cool. Go CSC! :)
> 
> Driving down the PCH today, I saw signs for the bike race later later 
> this week. Holy shit, I had a 2 hour white knuckle drive in the Q7, 
> can't freakin imagine a pro bike peloton on that road.
> 
> Stayed in Monterey yesterday, stopped by Laguna Seca today. The 
> Shelby Club was out playing. They let us into the paddocks...we 
> wandered around for a while, all sorts of interesting machinery in 
> attendance (very few Mustangs, in fact). An Audi TT cabrio, a coupla 
> Porsches, a late model Ferrari (430?) in full race kit.
> 
> We then took the Q7 to the top of the hill, scared my wife and kids a 
> bit at an approach that gave us only sky (facing the back turn up the hill).
> 
> The Q7 is really growing on me...it is a wonderful platform, very 
> comfortable and well laid out. I really did not enjoy the drive down 
> the PCH, but was very happy to be in an Audi.
> 
> Only two issues with the Q7 -- the first is that it is a little more 
> complicated than I'd like. Sure, I could figure it out, but I'm 
> looking for a car for my wife, not me, and she'd never get the radio 
> to change stations.
> 
> Second, side and rearward visibility is not up to typical Audi 
> standards. Much better than most other vehicles of this (or smaller) 
> size, but there were a couple of times that a second look found a car 
> that was in my blind spot. Really scary to think that people drive 
> these without knowing they need to take the second look!
> 
> The rear seats are okay, but a bit small. My 15 YO daughter enjoyed 
> riding in the back, but it takes a little doing to get in/out, not at 
> all like a minivan. Fine for occasional seating....
> 
> The Hertz rental is a special config -- no xenons, vinyl seats, 3.6L 
> engine, Sat radio, no adjustable suspension, no nav, etc. It does 
> have the wonderful full length (dual) skylights. Suspension is not 
> quite taut enough for the highway, and a bit too taut for any real 
> offroading (although the adjustable suspension might be better offroad.)
> 
> Quite interesting how much attention this truck gets. It does turn 
> quite a lot of heads, even in affluent car-crazy neighborhoods, and 
> the one I'm driving is a simple white one without 22" chrome wheels.
> 
> Lee
> 
> At 01:02 PM 2/18/2008, Theodore Chen wrote:
> >lee, my reply to your email address bounced.
> >
> >i was at the tour of california prologue yesterday.  were you 
> >there?  i haven't seen this many people on palm drive since 
> >gorbachev came to stanford in '89 , during my junior year.
> >
> >i wanted to make sure you know that monday's stage is sausalito to 
> >santa rosa, not palo alto.  just in case you show up in palo alto 
> >and wonder where everybody is.  :)
> >
> >i'm going to try to catch the wednesday stage in san jose.  my wife 
> >is off that day, so i may take a few hours off to go watch.
> >
> >is that Q7 a 4.2 or 3.6?  my brother was thinking about getting 
> >one.  how does the third row look?  is it usable?
> >
> >-teddy
> 
> Lee Levitt
> '01 A4 1.8t quattro avant
> ''99 A6 quattro avant
> '97 A6 quattro avant
> '96 A6 quattro avant 
> 
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