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Clarkson At It Again With Audi Q7 Diesel Review: It’s crap. But it’s brilliant too.

Agent001 submitted on 5/25/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:30:23 PM

12 user comments | Category: Reviews | Source: | SOURCE: www.timesonline.co.uk

I am no fan of the Audi Q7.

It is bread-bin ugly and despite its enormous size it’s so small inside that you are faced with a simple choice. Leave the dogs at home. Or the kids. Unlike a Volvo XC90, it cannot do both. However, to worry about tedious practical issues in this particular model is like worrying about what sort of golf clubs Alan Shepard used when teeing off on the moon.

That’s because this is the first road car ever to be fitted with a V12 diesel. It produces 493 horsepowers — more than any other diesel — and 738 torques. That’s about 160 more than you get from a McLaren SLR: 738 torques is enough to restart a dead planet.

It is a hysterical car, this. Mad. Bonkers. Stupid. It sits on the road network like a Class-1 powerboat would sit at the Henley regatta. Of course, it is also utterly pointless.

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Clarkson At It Again With Audi Q7 Diesel Review: It’s crap. But it’s brilliant too.

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TurboSpyder

"Eco-weeds argue that the busy life must be banned too. They think the world will be a better place if we all get up, have lunch, drive our electric Hyundai very slowly back to the office for a snooze and then go home to make wooden puzzles with our children."


Lol!

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Posted on 5/25/2009 11:48:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

DinamoR

clarkson is a very entertaining writer and a huge car enthusiast, but as far as the issues of the modern world and what effect 7 billion people living in a modern society has on the planet and our future, I'll leave that to some real experts instead of some dumbass car enthusiast.

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Posted on 5/26/2009 3:12:33 AM | | Votes: -5   

SteedPub

I'd say Clarkson has it right on the money. I don't think people are a dum-bass or not qualified to opine because they offend my ignorance.

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Posted on 5/26/2009 11:50:08 AM | | Votes: 3   

DinamoR

clarkson is a dumb ass. that is not what the green movement is calling for at all.

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Posted on 5/26/2009 4:35:37 PM | | Votes: -2   

wins555

AGree!

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Posted on 5/26/2009 2:13:29 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

wins555

Agree with Clarkson!

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Posted on 5/26/2009 3:06:59 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

BozzorTheGreat

These are some incredible words...

"I don’t want one. But I don’t want to live in a world where I never had the choice in the first place."

That is absolute genius and sums up so much of what is important in life.

— BozzorTheGreat (View Profile)

Posted on 5/26/2009 4:56:37 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

abcd

Clarkson as usual have made good points:
"And if they happen to have a Hyundai, or a Kia or one of those Rextons, which is made by a company you’ve never heard of in a country you couldn’t place on a map, then their speed will not be measurable at all.

This is because cars made by companies that earn most of their profits from shipping and cutting down forests, and have an automotive division only because it’s good for the local economy, are almost always rubbish."

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Posted on 5/26/2009 11:45:13 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Lamborghini_vs_Ferrari_Racer

CLARKSON IS GOD!

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Posted on 5/26/2009 4:37:03 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

commander104

could this be called a "sleeper"

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Posted on 5/26/2009 7:48:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Agent63

The Q7 with S-line package looks hot!

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Posted on 5/27/2009 7:40:21 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

OneOfOne

there is far more uninhabited space on the planet than the reverse. all the eco douches should find some of those empty spaces and then crawl under them.

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Posted on 6/2/2009 2:56:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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