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A4 Cabriolet.............wtf??

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Old 03-15-2004, 02:43 AM
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Default A4 Cabriolet.............wtf??

on Friday outside the office was an A4 Cabriolet.......nothing unusual I guess........I walked behind it and it sounded fecking awful.....like a taxi.........

anyways according to the Clarkson supplement in the times Audi have stuck a ing diesel engine in the A4 cab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what kind of person..........buys a convertible and wants to hear a diesel exhaust note FFS?.....surely a large part of the appeal of a convertible is the extra aural dimension you gain with the roof off
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Yeah - Top Gear reviewed it a while ago and came to the same conclusion - I think it was Clarkson who did the review.
It did sound very out of place.
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Originally posted by zero_to60
what kind of person..........buys a convertible and wants to hear a diesel exhaust note FFS?
Probably won't be able to hear it over the Richard Clayderman coming out the Bose system anyway...
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It will be a lot more interesting when the S4 cabriolet is launched !
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I wouldn't knock it.

After all, one of the reasons we chose the S over other sporstcars is because we like the "fresh air facility".

If you want to drive a convertible, but not a sportscar, the diesel makes a lot of sense. The fuel consumption of most droptops isn't that great, so if you pay for your own fuel and want a cabriolet, but not a sportscar, sounds like a good car to me.
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Originally posted by euan
I wouldn't knock it.

After all, one of the reasons we chose the S over other sporstcars is because we like the "fresh air facility".

If you want to drive a convertible, but not a sportscar, the diesel makes a lot of sense. The fuel consumption of most droptops isn't that great, so if you pay for your own fuel and want a cabriolet, but not a sportscar, sounds like a good car to me.
By that defintion so does an open top tractor.

No reason not to have a deisel, but you can get really quiet refined sounding ones, surely that wasn't beyond them?
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Originally posted by zero_to60
what kind of person..........buys a convertible and wants to hear a diesel exhaust note FFS?.....surely a large part of the appeal of a convertible is the extra aural dimension you gain with the roof off
Vegetarians I reckon.
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the last two posts

yep-they really do sound like a bag of spanners

a bit like an open top bus
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