Anyone else gone from a Hot Hatch to an Evoque?

(16-03-2013 12:18am)gw76 Wrote:  TT to Evoque. Completely different cars, but think I preferred the TT. Got too used to its handling and cant accept that the Evoque is a bit iffy on corners and roundabouts at speed !

Land Rover had opened up a new market segment with the Evoque and has, to some extent, successfully attracted a whole new customer base. But so many people are completely ignorant of the dynamics and physics of owning and driving a real 4x4 as the Evoque surely is. But to compare a hot hatch with a 4x4 in the handling stakes completely baffles me. If you want a hot hatch drive one. If you want a seriously capable sports utility vehicle have one of them too. Me? I have a Golf GTI. And a CLK AMG. An Evoque of course and an Isuzu Rodeo Denver 4x4 for the really dirty off road stuff. But they all do different things. Don't try and do a direct comparison between apples and tomatoes. Just saying...

(22-03-2013 06:54pm)muff Wrote:  Don't try and do a direct comparison between apples and tomatoes. Just saying...

You obviously missed the part of my post accepting that they were "Completely different cars" and an exclamation mark highlighting the obvious.

I went from a Scirocco R to an evoque Dynamic, regretted it at first but soon got used to the comfort and different feel and now love it and it was only a matter of time before the R lost me my licence

Don't look at The Mail today.

Some young lad in his 20's put a TT through the side of a house.

Very nasty.

(24-03-2013 07:32pm)Evo-king Wrote:  Don't look at The Mail today.

Some young lad in his 20's put a TT through the side of a house.

Very nasty.

Wonder if excessive speed was involved!

He not only wiped out a house, en-route to the corner of the house, through the air, he took out an Audi A4 Avant when you look at the photo on the BBC website http://babyrr.com/forum/Thread-Flying-Audi-TT

I came from owning a stage 2 Audi S3 2.0 TFSI S-Tronic, running around 330bhp to the Evoque Si4. I have a spinal injury and the lowered suspension of the S3 was doing me no favours. It got to the point that I wasn't able to drive it for more than a few miles at a time, maybe once or twice a week at the most. I didn't even know there was a 2.0 T version of the Evoque until a few weeks before I decided to buy and the minute I realised I could have (what for me is) the perfect blend of comfort, looks, amazing handling and power, that was it. I had to have one! There is no going back for me now, ..I'm hooked!

I've recently gone from a black with white interior, manual, twin turbo straight 6 306BHP petrol BMW Z4 E89 roadster to a white with black interior, auto, single turbo 4 cylinder diesel Evoque Prestige and I'm loving it at the moment! Couldn't get any different! It just suits my lifestyle these days!

A lot of any spirited driving on normal roads has more to do with the driver than the car to be honest!