Looks like this was first time ever he tries to put that bag in mercedes?

I will never ever buy an Audi. Here in France people who buy Audis always buy them black, drive far far over the speed limits and I just hate the spirit altogether. When one looks for B&O stuff in classifieds there are always tons of spurious Audi ads and I hate that too.

Perhaps it's different elsewhere.

A rather amusing article about Audi drivers which sums up how most people who do not drive an Audi feel:

This has indeed been my experience. Sad.

I admit to admiring the technology though, having had the opportunity to drive an A8.

Hi

Great article

"Land Rover Freelander was judged too high to properly appreciate the driver’s panic when required to brake suddenly." Very funny.

I reminber the face of an audi TT driver on the motorway years ago.Panic is the good word.

chartz wrote:

I will never ever buy an Audi. Here in France people who buy Audis always buy them black, drive far far over the speed limits and I just hate the spirit altogether. When one looks for B&O stuff in classifieds there are always tons of spurious Audi ads and I hate that too.

Perhaps it's different elsewhere.

Hi Jacques,

Your assessment, although the drift this is going was NOT my intension, is spot on.

What I wanted to share was a bit of clever comedy along with the really COOL B&O sound system which just “pops up.”

However ill advised I am just going to plunge into the deep end and you guys can do with this information what you choose.

I owned an automobile enthusiast’s business for nearly a decade and with the parking lot in plain view we could see what our customers drove…… generally they would bring their favourite car AND almost without exception you could tell the customer’s personality type by what they drove.

Audi drivers fit in well with the Porsche set, perfectionists, rigid, and yes they drove very fast. However both Audi and Porsche owners took excellent care of their cars as opposed to the Mercedes-Benz owner who cared more what they looked like IN the car.

The list goes on and on, but this is not a car forum. I will say that Mustang owners were very “regular” people vs. Camero owners who were a little “different.”

We hosted a car show for several years and it was just a hoot. The French car clubs would group together, fly the French flag, and serve wine and cheese, while the German clubs looked ready for war, well battle at least.

The Saab and Volvo clubs by far had the most fun; these were easy going people of whom about half would have horned-helmets on. 🤩

Anyway, now that we have bashed Audi, did anyone notice the B&O sound system? I drive a 14 year old car with a radio/CD player, so this B&O system rather blew my socks off!😁

Jeff

Of course Jeff.

I for one would love to have such a hifi equipment in my 16-year-old Opel Omega... whose speakers badly need a re-foam job!

Here in Denmark AUDI is like "the poor mans Mercedes," but still a very expensive car.
Denmark has the highest registration taxes in the world, so generally not many people can afford to even buy an AUDI A4.
Mostly Danes buy Peugeots, Toyotas, Kias, Suzukis and Chevrolet New Generation (the dull European built ones).

In Denmark an AUDI A4 easily cost 100.000€, same goes for Volvo's. A fully configures Volvo S40 like I have, though mine is far from fully configured, costs 130.000€ here.

So though you can create stereotypes around cars and their respective owners, there're generally not that many owners to choose from, when you look beyond the boring cars:)

Something as extravagant as an AUDI A8 or Mercedes S-Class only get a couple of sales in their entire model lifespan, the rest are imported from Germany when they've reached a certain age.

For the record, the registration in Denmark is like this, the initial 100kDKK is taxed by 100%, everything above is taxed by 180%, plus you pay 25% VAT of the price. So a car that from factory costs 100kDKK, ends up costing 250kDKK before it has plates. A car that costs 1mDKK ends up costing 1.000.000 * 1,25 + (100.000 * 1) + (1,125.000 * 1,8) = 3.600.000DKK.

If it's a motorcycle, the 180% is 200% instead.

You see my point?;)

Cheers, Mikkel:)

But hey, we shouldn't complain, at least we "only" pay 69% income tax on everything above 4,500€/mo😁