G.Damn the tailgate!

(04-05-2012 03:43pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Lane warning sensors detect when you stray out of the lane you are in on the motorway and either sound an alarm or vibrate the seat to wake you up.............................. As far as I know the RRE doesn't have this in it's BLIS system

I'll pretend I'm falling asleep next time I'm on the motorway to check!

(04-05-2012 03:43pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Lane warning sensors detect when you stray out of the lane you are in on the motorway and either sound an alarm or vibrate the seat to wake you up.............................. As far as I know the RRE doesn't have this in it's BLIS system

Yes my error, I ment Blind Spot Monitor.

(04-05-2012 09:39am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Evoque owners aren't the only people frustrated by this - I was asked by the village shop keeper who has just taken delivery of a shiny new Q7 V12 TDi (didn't know there was such a thing!) and paid £400 extra for the electric tailgate only to find it looses it's memory very time his wife drives the car! Turns out she needs some tailgate driving lessons!

Gee, shopkeeping must be paying well where you are Tim, that's a £100k Car!!!

I had my doubts as to the truth of his claims, I had heard of Q7 V10 TDi's and V8's but not V12's.......................... thing is it looks no different from any other Q7, until he opened the bonnet and there is not one square millimetre of space in there! He claims to have got a huge discount for taking it off Audi's hands, apparently they didn't sell too many of them and it is now discontinued. Inside is duller than ditchwater too, beautifully built but acres of black plastic look alike leather - it looks like the old Benztex fake leather but it is the real thing.

(04-05-2012 09:48pm)THEMACS Wrote:  Gee, shopkeeping must be paying well where you are Tim, that's a £100k Car!!!

He must be shifting a load of Irn Bru, Haggis neeps and tatties.

There’s no getting away from the fact that the Q7 V12 TDI is a ridiculous enterprise. The Q7 in more modest trim is a very hard car to justify building or buying, but like this it’s nothing short of insanity. If you want epic scales of performance from a car, you want a sports car that also handles well and will fit round corners. The Q7 doesn’t. It simply can’t. And if you want a seven-seat SUV, then presumably you have three or more children and definitely won’t want to be showing them how the 420mm fibre-reinforced ceramic discs can brake you down from a cheeky tonne in the blink of an eye. Remarkable, the Q7 V12 TDI is. Sensible, it isn’t.

(04-05-2012 09:39am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  I was asked by the village shop keeper who has just taken delivery of a shiny new Q7 V12 TDi Turns out she needs some tailgate driving lessons!

They come free of charge with German cars normally - certainly BMW"s anyway.