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10 Responses to “Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXIX”

1. RC2 Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 11:18 am

   I wish I could laugh at that!

2. ninme Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 11:37 am

   You just need to learn to stop worrying and love the fuel-sniffing anteaters.

3. Brett_McS Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 1:51 pm

   I’ll bet they’re a major advertiser for GreeNazi Magazine.

   The A3 specifically? I was pegging you more for the upcoming Q3 (mini SUV like the Tiguan, but better). I love the Audis; they always put out beautiful cars – great design both aesthetically and mechanically.

4. ninme Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 3:02 pm

   A Q3, ehhh? An ultra-high end Tiguan!? Peter WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS and will it come out in diesel? I really want a Tiguan but, as I recently RANTED, you can’t buy it in diesel and I don’t think I really want to be buying premium the rest of my (car’s) life. Stupid, backwards environmental regulations… grumble… mutter…

   You should see our Google Docs spreadsheet on cars. Fields include: length, width, mileage, cost, warrantee, torque, horsepower, weight, 0-60, nav, leather options, etc etc etc. I think we might publish it when we’re done… And here’s something else to put on it!

5. Brett_McS Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 5:03 pm

   The Q3s will definitely have diesel in the range. But then so does the Tiguan – everywhere except in the US?

   You’re concerned about the torque?

6. Brett_McS Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 5:16 pm

   That reminds me. Are you going to put a weighting on each field and then do a sum for each model to see which is the best according to your priorities? And then choose a completely different model? That’s the way I do things like that.

7. ninme Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

   I’d be more concerned about the torque if I could ever quite figure out what torque IS. But generally I think the point is that we don’t end up with something that won’t get us up the hill we live on. That would be unfortunate. And anyway we have a field for pretty much everything. I think at some point we’d assign some value to each thing so add them up would arrive at the best car, but then I sort of wonder if it wouldn’t just come down to: Will it fit in our building’s garage? Of course, by 2011, we might not live here anymore (baby’s gonna need a room of her own soon, after all).

   And no, I found some article somewhere that the Tiguan diesel isn’t being brought to the US because it would have to be – at considerable cost – fitted with a whole new …fuel injection system or some such thing that I don’t know what they’re talking about. For environmental purposes, of course.

8. Brett_McS Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 5:46 pm

   According to various articles, Audi were seriously considering manufacture in the US (but then settled on Spain). So I imagine they will have the right sort of injectors for the US if they were going to build the things there. In fact they might have a common rail injection system, which is the bees knees for fuel efficiency and low emissions.

   What about four-wheel drive for getting up the hill in snow?

9. ninme Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 9:11 pm

   Okay I give up. I can’t find the article I found (mostly because when I was first looking I went through about a million different articles looking for someone, ANYONE to give me a reason why I couldn’t buy my precious Tiguan (I’ve only seen one once in real life and it’s so CUTE!), but it’s down to a “urea injection”. The one it’s fitted with is plenty fuel-efficient/eco-friendly/whatever, but some government guy made the rule that it has to be “urea” (that means pee, doesn’t it?) and the rule’s the rules. So you know, in order to save the environment we aren’t allowed to buy environmentally friendly cars.

10. Brett_McS Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    So that’s what they mean by ‘bio-diesel’!

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