DaveGibson
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How much?Autocar P.65
They have an Audi TT RS on order at £50,115. £50K+ for a frigging blinged up 'Golf'.
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Twelfth Monkey
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I've thought from day one that it's perilously close to RS4/5 money.
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Boxer6
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Re: How much? | DaveGibson wrote: | Autocar P.65
They have an Audi TT RS on order at £50,115. £50K+ for a frigging blinged up 'Golf'. |
It does appear more than a little bit ridiculous. How much of that £50K has been spent on the (extensive) Audi options list?
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TimR
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Re: How much? | Boxer6 wrote: | | How much of that £50K has been spent on the (extensive) Audi options list? |
List is about £43k so not much compared with normal.
Have you seen the latest EVO magazine?
They've added a Porsche Cayenne turbo - obviously a Porsche UK car.
Some of the options added are ludicrous.
Coloured Porsche badge on upgrade alloys - £105.
£482 for a padded steering wheel rim (looks like a normal wheel from the photos) plus £341 for a multifunction steering wheel.
So that's over £800 to upgrade the steering wheel on a £76k list price car.
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Matt
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My Astra has an extra padded wheel and multi-function controls. I think they might have spent £8 on them, though. 
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TimR
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I could've had steering wheel controls on my Stilo for an extra £35.
The Alfa and BMW have them as standard and I don't think they'd been invented when the Coupe was built.
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DaveGibson
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| TimR wrote: | I could've had steering wheel controls on my Stilo for an extra £35.
The Alfa and BMW have them as standard and I don't think they'd been invented when the Coupe was built. |
They weren't for the radio but my dad's 1938 Talbot had the horn, indicator and dip switches on the wheel's central boss.
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Boxer6
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Re: How much? | TimR wrote: | | Boxer6 wrote: | | How much of that £50K has been spent on the (extensive) Audi options list? |
List is about £43k so not much compared with normal....... |
Not so much, perhaps, but still (very roughly) about 16% of the list price!
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Apex clipper
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The latest must have object?  50 big ones is a bit steep though.
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TimR
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Re: How much? | Boxer6 wrote: | | TimR wrote: | | Boxer6 wrote: | | How much of that £50K has been spent on the (extensive) Audi options list? |
List is about £43k so not much compared with normal....... |
Not so much, perhaps, but still (very roughly) about 16% of the list price! |
It's certainly excessive but I'm sure that some of the cars in magazines long term fleets have had a lot more spent on options.
I know for example that Georg Kacher's Audi A5 TDi had fancy paint and interior (plus no doubt loads of other toys) from the Audi exclusive range - the paint alone was something like £3.5k.
I think there was also an A6 that had well over £10k spent on extras.
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Pkh72
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Re: How much? | TimR wrote: | | Boxer6 wrote: | | TimR wrote: | | Boxer6 wrote: | | How much of that £50K has been spent on the (extensive) Audi options list? |
List is about £43k so not much compared with normal....... |
Not so much, perhaps, but still (very roughly) about 16% of the list price! |
It's certainly excessive but I'm sure that some of the cars in magazines long term fleets have had a lot more spent on options.
I know for example that Georg Kacher's Audi A5 TDi had fancy paint and interior (plus no doubt loads of other toys) from the Audi exclusive range - the paint alone was something like £3.5k.
I think there was also an A6 that had well over £10k spent on extras. |
It did look nice that A5 though.
But 3.5k....................
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DarthBalls
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This just reminded me - Big TC and I spotted a TT-RS broken down on the A725 on Saturday. The stupid twat (the TT-RS driver not Trev) was parked completely on the carriageway when there's a perfectly good verge.
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PG
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We did play a challenge once on the old Autocar site to see who could spec the most expensive and pointless options list onto a standard car - going for full scamperspec and then some. And Audi A4 something or other won and it seems that Audi are the wallet-emptying-meisters at ripping people off for options.
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Eff One
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The TT-RS is a nice looking car, spoiler excepted - I've seen a couple now - but seems to add little to the range besides performance. £10k extra over the good-value TT-S is far too much.
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Turbonutter
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| Eff One wrote: | | The TT-RS is a nice looking car, spoiler excepted - I've seen a couple now - but seems to add little to the range besides performance. £10k extra over the good-value TT-S is far too much. |
I quite like the TT-RS in the mags/5th Gear test but haven't seen one in the flesh close up. See an S occasionally but I couldn't envisage paying £50k for one....even if I was able to. Probably look at a 4-door M3 or Bathurst for that cash
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Turbonutter
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Re: How much? | DaveGibson wrote: | Autocar P.65
They have an Audi TT RS on order at £50,115. £50K+ for a frigging blinged up 'Golf'. |
It's arrived....at least the fuel consumption is proving good so far
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