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That front grill has been done to death!

Bland, bland, bland...same old Audi then

By Focus_your_mind on 24 August, 2010, 11:23am

Why bother disguising it?

It's just going to look like a bigger A5 anyway.

By jcrowley012 on 24 August, 2010, 9:13pm

Here we go again. As usual, the first comments on a new Audi are from the same crowd of boring detractors. Do you award yourselves a wee prize for the most scathing attack on Audi? Maybe an empty Heinz soup can to go with your brain space. The sales figures speak for the product. Always on the up. Get a life boys.

By justeddie on 26 August, 2010, 8:06am

Not sure it's bland, too many squiggles for me to tell what it is yet (Rolf quote in case you didn't know!) on the other hand Audi are getting too iterative with their design language. Then look at what Jag have done with XF & XJ and, whether you're a fan or not, at least they've gone, "you know what, we're done with this 60's style, lets do something really different". At least they didn't go all Bangle on their shapes though - but at least BMW have moved on - and this is where Audi will suffer if they're not careful. @justeddie - the sales figures also speak for the competitors, as in they're struggling to find as many niche products (well, BMW is trying!) as Audi have done and Audi have worked out their target audience very carefully. I'm not a big fan though because their design isn't stretching or interesting or evocative enough to break away from some pre-determined, designed, orchestrated marketing directive. I think the Audi we have today is reticent at producing anything too different lest they scare off their core, conservative, buyers. That's what Jag did years ago - remember what happened to their sales figures and age of customer?! As one went down the other one went up! Now... I really want an XF - not this A6.

By JohnSFellows on 26 August, 2010, 8:56am

For pete's sake AE

Same old spiel from Auto Express. Exclusive! Exclusive! Exclusive! YAWWWWWWNNNNNN!

As I have commented many times in recent months, these "spy shots" tell us absolutely nothing about how the car will look, ANY car, not just this one. Why don't you just do away with all this clap trap AE and publish REAL pictures, not somehting that could be any damn car you can think of dressed up in squiggly motifs. You're going to show us the real car when it is unveiled anyway, so why not save yourselves some money and wait for the real deal.

If the above is to be believed about the specs however, then at least that sounds good. There's never been anything wrong with Audi's engines no matter what their makeup, whether V8, V6 or whatever.

But AE, quit with these pie in the sky images for God's sake, they don't tell us anything, zip, zilch, nada!

By nick7 on 26 August, 2010, 6:07pm

Yes John, I agree. Jaguar had many problems in the past, but it was not all down to pandering to the older buyer. I was at one time one of what might be classed as the "younger" market target for a marque I always admired and respected, but was put off by severe reliability problems, a bug that hampered Jaguar sales in that all important U.S. market for many years. My late uncle, a man you, nor I would like to mess with, who owned a road haulage company of 70 vehicles, was a great Jaguar enthusiast, until he got fed up transporting his latest car down to the factory, because he could not get reasonable service from his local Jaguar dealer. That was the Cat's downfall, not just pandering to design or the "old Jag punter". A trap I don't think Audi will fall in to.

By justeddie on 27 August, 2010, 6:03pm

Justeddie, see we all do it, some like yourself though, are less direct...............

Here we go again. As usual, the first comments on a new JAGUAR are from the same crowd of boring detractors. Do you award yourselves a wee prize for the most scathing attack on JAGUAR?

We all know horror stories of cars from the early 70's and 80's Jaguar, like many were suffering reliability problems, aside the badge and heritage these new Jags and their technology have nothing in common with their predessesors.

Audi sounded like a sexually transmitted disease (it used to be called NSU!) less we for forget. The problem I have with Audi, aside the styling, is I don't know what I'm buying, is it an Audi first or a VW, or a Seat or a Skoda, as underneath they are all the same, why pay £30k of an Audi A4 when you can buy a Seat Exeo for £19k, or the VW Passat for £22k. Audi want to be prestige, they need to move further away from VW otherwise I couldn't justify the higher premium for a badge engineering exercise

By Focus_your_mind on 1 September, 2010, 9:43am