[V8] Fwd: The Audi S5: A $59000 NOPE!

[John Bysinger]

I'm sort of ok with the new design, but I'm very partial to midsize sport
coupes in general, it's a body config that I just love.  That said, I have
to say that Rogers statement made me laugh:

"Why did Audi think that it needed to make the ass end of this coupe
look like something that BMW's design committee would reject?"

Uhm, imho I think every back end on BMWs in the last 5+ years looks like the
design committee DID reject it.  The disjointed look they have these days
gives me the impression that 5 guys were working on the design, and none of
them talked to each other.  (I read somewhere once that someone newish at
BMW was responsible for the change and was praised for 'bringing new life'
into the designs.)

I think the S5/A5's backside looks better than the current BMWs, but as you
can tell, to me that isn't saying much.

-John
'90v8q

On 5/12/07, Roger M. Woodbury <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> I just read the review of the S5 on line.  I disagreed with almost
> everything said about the car in the article.  I must be getting old.
>
> To begin with, the profile of the car looked just like what Toyota would
> produce if they produced a two door coupe and took pictures of it just
> after
> it returned from the NTSA Frontal Crash tests.  The blunt nose on what
> Audi
> is producing today is a design element for which I have no word...other
> than
> stupid, perhaps.
>
> The ass end of the thing looks like something that Chris Bangle would be
> proud.  Why did Audi think that it needed to make the ass end of this
> coupe
> look like something that BMW's design committee would reject?
>
> Overall, the thing looks just sort of Japanesee, to me.  Like one night
> good
> old Oke, the night janitor in some Yokohama design studio took an hour or
> two off from sweeping the floors, and sat at the designers table.  I can
> see
> him now, munching on rice balls, and scribbling furiously until, voila!
> There appeared something that became the Audi S5!
>
> And all this wonderous design swooping and scupting, plus enough
> electronic
> gizzies to make the car unserviceable except at some big city dealership
> at
> $300 per hour?  I don't think so.
>
> Me.  I will continue to pursue the idea of buying another V8, and
> renovating
> it for another 100,000 miles.  Despite the amount of electronics already
> in
> one of the things, at about five grand, with another five grand ready for
> retrofit, the car has lines that are pretty much ageless, at least to my
> eyes.  And even if I do change the wheels to 16 inchers, the cost of tires
> will not begin to approach those big rubber donuts on the S5.  My
> insurance
> premiums will be nothing by comparison, and the tax collector will ask if
> I
> am single handedly trying to bankrupt the town by not buying an expensive
> car for them to tax.
>
> Oh...one big drawback, of course:  I won't have nearly as many cupholders
> as
> the guy driving the S5 has.
>
> Damn!  I hate it when I am only second best!
>
> Roger
>
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