Comments by "" (@appelpower1) on "Audi RS6 vs Ducati 1199 Panigale R - car vs bike track battle" video.

  1. +TruthSeeker Calm down, you. You shouldn't be comparing an estate to a sports car. The charm of this car lies in the fact that, despite having all the practicality you need if you have three children or less, is very fast, fast enough to keep up with many sports cars. It's not the most exciting car to drive, or the sharpest, but it's a car that combines estate practicality with sports car speed. It's an Autobahn stormer, not a track monster. The mere fact that you are comparing it to a sports car says enough, in my opinion. The previous RS6 had a second charming point: the fact that it looked almost exactly like a 2.0 TDI, yet carried a 580 bhp 5.2 litre biturbo V10. Needless to say, the thing was a rocket. A really heavy one that wasn't all that good in the corners, but even then, it was very, very fast, and nobody saw it coming. It's what they call a 'sleeper'. Sadly, the new one has too many spoilers, diffusors, exhausts and so forth on it.
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  2. TruthSeeker You're being irrational. You don't like the RS6, we explain why we do without asking or forcing you to change your opinion. Please calm down for your own happiness and dignity.
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  3. Colin Morgan People will strangely expect less from an Audi A6 estate than from a Porsche Cayenne. That's because the A6 looks less expensive and exclusive. Sleepers are just funny. I also love the Skoda Superb with 3.6 litre V6. It looks the same as a 1.6 TDI, but if you push the throttle, bam, 260 horses shoot the car forwards.
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  4. Colin Morgan I'm Dutch. My country is even more cramped than the UK. Our roads are just as littered with speed cameras as yours. Our tax system appears to be designed to force you to buy a car that's as slow and boring as possible. That, however, would motivate me to take the extra taxes and speed tickets and overtake the VW Polo Slowmotion kitchen blenders at 160 kph on the motorway, while letting the 5.2 litre V10 engine roar. I'd try to make driving as fun as I possibly can here. We don't have nice roads and corners anyway, so if you want to be fast, you'd have to do that in a straight line. Oh, and the Cayenne is awful. It looks awful and costs too much. The RS6 is no beauty, but it's quite elegant (the old model, without the spoilers, the flaps and all that sort of rubbish). The Superb is a big lump of car and you can see that, but it's still fairly good looking as is. The Cayenne is a footballer's car. If you look past what they do for a living, footballers are awful people. 
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  5. Colin Morgan Why, thank you! I haven't actually got a driving license, but I can imagine myself becoming something of a GT driver. Driving rapidly through mild corners for a bit of excitement, but still in comfort, with the big and powerful engine making a reassuring noise as I go along, occasionally producing an outburst of power as I shift down using the paddles on the steering wheel. I'd rather not sit in concrete Recaro racing seats and be shaken and stirred by a suspension that's as stiff as Silvio Berlusconi on an Italian beach on a hot summer's day, while having a tiny and torqueless, but uptight and powerful engine scream in my ear. And all that, while wrestling with a heavy clutch, a clunky gear lever and the heavy steering, which moves about as the car tries its best to propel me straight off the track with unpredictable handling that may be effective in professional hands, but is downright dangerous for normal people. It would be frightening, and while the adrenaline rush of getting it right is rewarding, I'd rather sit back and enjoy a B-road in, say, an Aston Martin V8 Vantage, the only car I've ever driven besides a BMW 130i (on a racetrack, with an instructor).
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  6. Colin Morgan It was a day on which teenagers 12 years or older could drive a car around a track. Officially, you weren't allowed to go faster than 60 kph for safety reasons, but I had a very loose instructor who let me go faster than that. He never even said anything, except for when I approached somebody else too closely or when I went too fast for a very tight bend. I hit 110 on the straights, though I thought I'd not go any faster than that, as to not upset the people who organised it all. I prefer to call myself a car entheusiast rather than a petrolhead. Why? Well, I have no idea how a car works. From reading car reports, I know what understeer and oversteer is, and between driving that Aston and carting, I know what 'communicative steering' and a 'connection to the road' means. But how cars work? I have no idea. But, more importantly, I'm a person who appreciates pretty much all cars. Even something such as the BMW X6M; I don't like it, but I think it's funny for its silliness. I'm even quite fascinated by alternative drivetrains (electricity, hydrogen), and love the Tesla Model S for being a GT and a sleeper, and doing an amazing job while it's at it. I still love the sound of a massive engine, but I'm not as fanatical as most petrolheads. I guess that's the difference between a petrolhead and a car entheusiast.
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  7. ***** I think he mentions the fact that a lot of people buy German cars for the badge. But not all of them do. BMW, for instance, has a large and loyal fanbase full of petrolheads. I'd call myself a car enthusiast, and I like the RS6 for what it is, not what it's called or what the badge is.
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  8. TruthSeeker I like the RS6 for the fact that it's a practical family estate that can keep up with many sports cars. You just don't see it coming. The British call it a 'Q-car', the Americans call it a 'sleeper'. It's just hilarious. Sure, that much speed in a family car isn't really necessary, but it's amusing nonetheless. Granted, the old model was more anonymous and therefore nicer: the new one has bodykits and badges everywhere. It's a shame.
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