Comments by "BeyerT1" (@derbigpr500) on "Auto Express" channel.

  1. As British as you could get. Built on a German platform, has a German body, a German engine, gearbox, AWD system, suspension system, 90% of electronics, all of the safety equipment, etc.
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  2. Did you sit in a new Jag lately? I assume not since you think it might have a better interior than an Alfa. Let me assure, it does not. There's not a panel in a new Jag interior that won't squeak or crackle when you press it with your finger. They're full of questionable plastics and cheap looking glossy black surfaces. The XF feels cheaper than a Mercedes A class inside, and it's supposed to be an E class rival. They're not well put together at all. Alfa on the other hand, as weird as that might sound, is. The Stelvio and Giulia both have incredibly well put together interiors with a very solid feel comparable to Audi, with zero squeaks or rattles. Especially the QV versions which have every single surface in the interior covered in highest quality leather, metal or real carbon fiber.
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  3. It's also nowhere near as well engineered, advanced, or simply good, in any way. Porsche beats it in every imaginable objective or subjective way. Plus, despite being a car that should cost twice as much as the Evora, it's cheaper.
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  4. You people thinking that GT-R is the better car are just complete idiots. There is no other way to call the amount of stupidity and total lack of any knowledge about cars. EVEN THE JAPANESE THEMSELVES SAID THAT GT-R CANT COMPETE WITH EUROPEAN SUPERCARS.  But you stupid need for speed fanboy brainwashed generation think it is...morons.   Porsche is infinitely more luxurious, comfortable, refined, has MUCH more quality in every detail, GT-R feels cheap next to the old 911, let alone new one, AND on top of all that its got a better engine, better gearbox, better brakes, better suspension with much more comfort and better handling at the same time, better acceleration, its lighter, so it can be driven hard for much longer, better fuel economy, no doubt better reliability with GT-R being so unreliable,
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  5. MrFaniaros Just because rear end look more stable to you (whatever), doesn't mean it is.  Golf starts understeering much sooner, thats why rear end doesn't step out. Megane doesn't understeer as much, but thats why it goes trough corners faster.  Also, don't  forget Golf has stability control that is ALWAYS on, in the Megane it was turned off, so ofc it can slide a bit if you make it.  I've driven the Megane RS III, and owned the Megane II RS for 3 years, and trust me, Its NOT unstable. Its extremely planted and on normal roads you really have to go ape shit, you really have to go over the top to make it understeer or oversteer.
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  6. ***** You haven't made your point, because you're clearly utterly clueless about car industry and cars in general.
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  7. It's hilarious how many car experts in the comments think this Golf is just a gimmick car, but none of them know that it set the record on Nurburgring as the first FWD car ever to go around in less than 7:50, more precisely 7:49. There's even a video on youtube, but still, the experts are unaware. That's 10 seconds faster than a Civic. Not to mention the Civic that did that lap was a modified pre-production car that cheated in many ways.
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  8. That's the ugliest rear end on any new car on the market currently. Why? Because the rest of the car is so beautiful. I mean, who the fuck designed those rear lights? It looks like someone from China tried to copy Audi A5's rear end on a car that will sell for the price of  a used Dacia Sandero.  Whoever is responsible for that rear end should never ever work as a designer again.
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  9. Are you fucking serious? This Golf set the 7:49 record on Nurburgring. It's painful how ignorant and clueless some people here are. Go watch the fucking video on youtube.
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  10. It's a different setup. Different spring rates, anti roll bars, dampers, different weight distribution, different wheel geometry settings, etc. On top of that its lighter and more efficient because it's not 4WD.
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  11. Can't wait for Huracan Performante, apparently Lambo claims it's faster on a track than Aventador LP750 SV, which means it will go around Nurburgring in less than 7 minutes, staggering for a car with some 600hp.
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  12. F1 is not built for drag racing. In fact, straight line speed and acceleration is what F1 is the worst at, relatively speaking.
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  13. The thing is, the Porsche Cayenne Turbo is a member of the officially most reliable car brand in the world known for building indestructible cars, and the F-Pace SVR is...how shall we put it...NOT.
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  14. It's not even about lap times. Seriously, I've only driven the basic 2.7 Cayman, and that thing drives like a dream. It's seriously one of the best drivers cars ever made, and probably one the 3 best money can buy today. It's so incredibly balanced, stable, predictable, the seating position is perfect, steering and brake feel are spot on. It just feels like it's glued to the road, and  then when it let's go, it does it with zero drama and it's very easy to control. It's one of those cars that feel like no matter what you do, you won't spin it or slide off the road. It feels like a go-cart, except it's super refined and pretty comfortable at the same time. It's one of those cars that you drive and after that you need a one week break to forget about how good it iis before you sit behind a wheel of any other car because otherwise you're bound to be very disappointed.
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  15. nazhif1 Inaudible engine in real world, you really can't hear a diesel engine unless you're fully accelerating. And since this is a 6 cyl diesel, it even sounds very good. It has incredible torque, which means it pulls hard in every gear at every rpm. You'll never have a petrol engine car in 6th gear at 1500 rpm, feel like the car will about to stall judging by the sound, and then floor the throttle and get pushed so hard into the seat you'll feel like you're in 2nd gear. Diesels give you effortless performance. In real world, D3 is faster than M3. You'd have to rev the M3 to redline in order to leave the D3 behind, while D3 would be upshifting at 3500 rpm. On top of that, M3 can't even get close to the fuel consumption figures of the D3.
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  16. ki flex If you can't tell them apart, then you know very little about cars...and probably don't care much about them either, so why do you care if they look the same?
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  17. How many times I go over 150? Like...70% of the time when driving on a highway actually. 150 is walking speed nowadays, especially in a luxury car.
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  18. They might look similar, but they still take a lot of work to develop and manufacture. Only people who have no clue whatsoever about engineering and all the work that goes into manufacturing a car (which pretty much covers every car journalist in the world) would make fun of them. Making something look similar is one thing, making it at all is a whole different story.
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  19. "this is the king of hot hatches on tracks" - Don't see too many Civic's on the Nurburgring....on the other hand, Megane RS's are all over the place.
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  20. ***** People who say Audi's understeer have IQ's lower than their shoe size and NO understanding of road car suspension setup whatsoever.
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  21. Vedant Shimpi That's because all the designers at Hyundai get homework every day ,and that homework is to copy the design of German cars.
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  22. Yea VW snobs must really be hitting their heads now....let's just ignore that every single piece of that Seat that makes it as fast as it is was just taken over from VW... chassis, suspension, brakes, engine, gearbox...and that without VW this Seat would never even exist. They have the same mechanics,  it's just set up differently. But stupid people like you don'tunderstand that having the same hardware, and setting it up differently makes a big difference in performance, and also that setting up the car to be a bit faster on the track usually makes it worse on the road, because you lose stability and safety in poor weather and bad roads, and you lose a lot of comfort and refinement as well. Leon R is set up more aggressively, more track focused,   Golf R is set up for the road.  I can guarantee you that while Golf R might be a touch slower on a perfectly dry, perfectly flat track with an even surface (and remember it's 5 door vs 3 door), because of it's setup its MUCH more comfortable and refined on the road, and better, more stable, safer, smoother to drive on the road, where it will spent 99,9% of time. You can be sure as hell that it will also be faster on real roads with bumps, different surfaces, cambers, different weather conditions, etc....because in case you didn't notice, real roads are nothing like smooth, flat and dry race tracks.  So, while people with limited intellect might jump onto the "lololol vw sucks"  bandwagon, Golf R is still a better car overall and in 9/10 situations faster than Leon R.  So yea...poor bastards who will buy the Golf R over the Leon...they will have to spend their time in a car that's better in every way. (faster on track doesn't mean better when it comes to road cars, for reasons previously stated, anyone who doesn't realize that clearly is clueless about cars).
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  23. Yea, you know it's soulless by looking at pictures of it on a screen.
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  24. Jaye Oliver O'Farrell-Stevens Relax I'm obviously trolling. I'm not even american.
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  25. It has way more torque, a flatter torque curve, a flatter power curve, faster gearbox, etc.  R8 isn't that fast anymore, that old V10 engine has good peak power and torque, but it's basically powerless compared to the RS6 engine troughout most of the rev range.
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  26. RetroGamerVX No, you just don't have a slightest clue about design.
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  27. Even the old Megane RS Trophy was faster than the brand new BMW M3 around the track, both at Nurburgring and that track where Chris Harris made the 2015 car of the year video, and the Golf Clubsport S is 3 seconds faster at Nurburgring than Megane. Point being, the 135i is not even in the same league.
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  28. So, one more German Ford model is ruined when it's gone international.... same as Focus. Doesn't handle as nice as the old one.
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  29. INUMIMI28 Look, I'm not a Audi or BMW fanboy, just a mechanical engineer with infinitely more knowledge about cars than you have (or Sutcliffe, or anyone who works in Autoexpress for that matter) who understands EXACTLY why Civic won this, and exactly why it's further proof of how much better the other two cars are. I'd explain it to you, but I'm afraid your IQ and level of education are too low to understand.
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  30. mattheginger  Yes, I have driven a Lexus IS220d and I have driven several Mazda 6's, my father owned the last model of Mazda 6 with a 180hp 2.2 diesel engine. But I expect if I tell you it's not as good as the European rivals, you'd call me a hater.  You never could see what makes a premium brand worth more money, all you can say is "you're paying for the name" argument. If you could actually understand the engineering behind EACH detail of these cars, you'd realize why they cost more.
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  31. Except the S90 can't fit in the same sentence with the XF. It's SUCH an overrated car. I prefer my 6 year old 530d in every single way. It drives better, it's quieter, it's more comfortable, more refined, the interior feels better put together and definitely uses higher quality materials, etc. Even looks more modern inside and out. The Volvo minimalism is dancing on a line between being minimalistic and bare, and it's leaning onto the bare side. On lower specs, the S90 literally feels cheap inside. The plastics on the dash and doors are rough and not particularly expensive looking, and in certain lights, have that cheap grey look to them.
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  32. Oh stfu...if you could afford it you'd be happy to have a Lambo for half the price.
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  33. Z4 has to be a little soft, it's a GT roadster, not a full out sports car. Being comfortable and refined was always one of the main characteristics of the Z4.
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  34. It used to an Alfa Romeo project and was supposed to be the new 8C, but it has nothing to do with the 4C chassis, it's a completely new car from ground up.
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  35. Europe has over 100,000 EV charging stations. 2100 of those belong to Tesla. Which part of that is unclear to you?
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  36. Jealous hater is already here.
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  37. Mark Antar First of all, GT3 is less track oriented than a 650S. Why? Well, first of all, it's just a more sporty version of a sports coupe which is the 911. 650S is designed from ground up to be a supercar. Second, 650S has more power, and uses more race oriented technology that they get from F1....its almost completely made out of carbon fiber...unlike the GT3. 911 still has all the luxury or more than the 650S has. So...the fact that the 650S is barely faster just shows how much better the 911 is as a car, because it achieves far more with far less. .  
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  38. Snakebloke If you think a 5 series is anything other than perfect visually, you're just a fucking moron with zero taste. I've never heard ANYONE say that a 5 series is ugly or disgusting as you put it. That car is absolute perfection for a saloon in terms of design. It's perfectly balanced, proportions are spot on, every single part of that car, from any angle, looks better than any other car in the segment, and if you take any single part of that car, and think of how you could possibly improve it visually, you couldn't do it. Trust me, people infinitely more intelligent with far better taste agreed with me, as for the engineering part of the car, well, as a mechanical engineer I know very well why the 5 series is still the best car in the segment. That is a fact, not an opinion. Those who don't agree, again, are not relevant, because I don't value opinions of morons or people who talk about things they're not educated on, know nothing about, and have no experience with.
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  39. beastho M135i or Boxter S, Cayman S?  Roughly the same price?  In which universe? M135i with the same equipment level as the RCZ will cost around 55000 euros, thats 15000 more. Base Cayman S costs 65000, put in equipment that RCZ comes with as standard, and it will be over 70000 euros. Besides,  RCZ-R is faster than both of those on track. Even Megane RS is faster on Nurburgring than 1M, not 135i, but 1M, which is faster than 135i or Cayman.  And RCZ-R is almost 1,5 sec faster than Megane RS around this short track, on a long track it would make an even bigger difference.  I don't think you're quite aware of the components that RCZ-R uses. It currently has some of the best suspension systems you can find on the market this side of supercar region. 
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  40. "the BMW in no way gives a high quality feel." You are literally trolling now, especially for someone who claims he prefers the S90, which literally feels no better in terms of quality than the 3 series, and not as good as the C class or anywhere near as good as the new A4. Notice I'm talking about cars from the class below, because it can't sit in the same sentence with the cars from it's own class when it comes to interior quality. Or refinement, or comfort, or luxury in general.
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  41. Light Yagami Yea, you'd know, never being in a 50 km radius of either of these two cars. C5 is an excellent car, in many ways MUCH better than C class.  C class, in fact, not even E class comes close to the refinement, smoothness, comfort and quietness of the C5.  It's a very comfortable car in every  way, the seats are amazing, huge, soft, supporting like a sofa at home, unlike the hard tiny seat in the C class.  C5 scored higher in safety than C class, it's got more room inside, bigger trunk, same equipment (actually more, you can't get adjustable air suspension on current C class, you can't get massage seats, etc.), the quality of the materials in the interior of the C5 is actually better than in the current C class, which feels very plasticky and dull inside, while you can get a C5 that COMPLETELY covered in leather, on the dash, door panels, velour on the roof, etc. Don't underestimate the C5 just because you lack any sort of knowledge about cars, plus you're very ignorant and acting as if you DO know something.  And I know you'll come back with "it will fall apart" or "its unreliable" comment... well, check the latest GERMAN reliability ratings where it scored max. points, just as the C class did.
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  42. ***** You're stupid. I wrote a very long comment under that video explaining why.
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  43. Just remind me....how much better is Porsche in terms of luxury, refinement, comfort, equipment, safety, handling, reliability, efficiency, etc.?
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  44. M2 is a far better car in every single way, and with proper driving, faster as well, not that the lap times matter that much in the end.
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  45. ***** Yea but it changed the stiffness of the body (and it's total bullshit when they claim it didn't, they can fool children in the kindergarten, not a mechanical engineer like me, even "rubber mounting" it has some effects). It did affect it at least a bit, but that is irrelevant. The rollcage might have slightly changed the distribution of weight, center of gravity, etc. But that is again irrelevant, even if everything related to the weight was the same as the production car, even if the roll cage had the sole purpose to protect the driver in case of crash, that is already an advantage because the driver could push the car harder knowing that if he crashes he will be ok, instead of driving a road car that wont be as safe in a crash. Mentally when driving on a race track (and again, having more than 15 years of experience of track driving myself I'd know), it's very important to feel safe and comfortable. Even if you're just subconsciously aware that you simply can't get hurt if you crash, you'll consciously take more risk when driving. Just that advantage is an unfair advantage for the driver (and don't be naive and think that driver is not the most important component of the lap time on Nurburgring, average driver could not take these cars around it in less than 8:30 even with all assists enabled). On top of that, compare the Megane and Civic laps side by side, see how much faster the Civic is in the straight, it literally looks like it accelerates like a car with 400hp not 300. And Megane keeps up because it's faster trough corners and during braking and corner exits. Listen to the tone of the tires and the slip angles, which are very specific and easy to recognize for semi-slick tires if you have experience of driving with them, again, an advantage for Honda over the Megane, which used Bridgestone more road focused tires. In any case, even if Civic is faster, we're still comparing cars that came out SEVEN YEARS apart, and the engine in the Megane is actually pulling roots from the Megane II, so the engine basics, as well as gearbox, are basically 12-13 years old, whereas the Civic has a brand new drive train. It's not such a big feat to barely be able to beat a car from one or two generations ago, by a hair. When Megane 3 game out, it beat the old Megane RS 230 by 15 and Focus RS500 by almost 20 seconds per lap on the Nurburgring, Honda barely managed 3 seconds, WITH those unfair advantages.
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  46. Victor Hoyles 0.4 seconds of a difference is not exactly what I'd call "spanked". You're clearly a fanboy who is unable to think clearly and will exaggerate everything just to prove he's right. This video is 100% about driving, just a small mistake or a different line can make 1 second or more of a difference on a track with such slow chicanes and corners, where you can simply cut the chicane a bit more aggressively and save about 10 km/h of speed, so I would not use this video as any sort of proof, the times were just too close. I grew up at race tracks and have a lot of experience driving on them, and just by looking at this video and the track layout I can see where he could have easily fucked up without it showing on the video and still lost or gained more than just a second. And the Megane (which beat the Seat in EVERY comparison so far except this one) had old brake pads which faded, so that time is totally out of the question, because they should have used the cars equally worn out mechanical parts. Furthermore, the Seat Leon is actually not the most hardcore version, because this one didn't have the Sub 8 minute perfrormance pack, which would reduce the time. On top of that, look how stiff the Civic is...just because it's suspension is much more track focused, it has so much more aero features, more power and more torque, it should have been far faster, but it wasn't. 0.4s is nothing when it comes to such slow cars...this is not F1 you know...this is a slow track, and 0.4 seconds of a difference is really small.
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  47. And R8 will be worth as much as when it was new? What a stupid remark...
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  48. Regardless of what people think...Subaru's aren't that fast on a track. In fact....look up the last models Nurburgring laps, it was about 20 seconds per lap slower than a less powerful FWD Renault Megane. And let's not forgt to mention that Megane is in every other way a better car than an Impreza as well.
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  49. Side profile is such a 3 series rip off, like the Infinity. Squint and you see a 3 series. And rear lights are a Audi A5 rip off. Not nearly as nice as the XF or XJ.
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  50. Well, the point is, A3 is so much better than Impreza that it's not a fair comparison. And the difference in price is so small that it makes the Audi look like a bragain. Go sit inside the new A3...drive it around a bit. You'll quickly realize why some cars are described as "premium". Every detail about it feels like it's very expensive and like someone put a lot of time and effort into designing it.
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