Clarkson At It Again With Audi Q7 Diesel Review: It’s crap. But it’s brilliant too.

I am no fan of the Audi Q7. It is bread-bin ugly and despite its enormous size it’s so small inside that you are faced with a simple choice. Leave the dogs at home. Or the kids. Unlike a Volvo XC90, it cannot do both. However, to worry about tedious practical issues in this particular model is like worrying about what sort of golf clubs Alan Shepard used when teeing off on the moon.

That’s because this is the first road car ever to be fitted with a V12 diesel. It produces 493 horsepowers — more than any other diesel — and 738 torques. That’s about 160 more than you get from a McLaren SLR: 738 torques is enough to restart a dead planet.

It is a hysterical car, this. Mad. Bonkers. Stupid. It sits on the road network like a Class-1 powerboat would sit at the Henley regatta. Of course, it is also utterly pointless.

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DinamoR - 5/26/2009 3:12:33 AM

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clarkson is a very entertaining writer and a huge car enthusiast, but as far as the issues of the modern world and what effect 7 billion people living in a modern society has on the planet and our future, I'll leave that to some real experts instead of some dumbass car enthusiast.

SteedPub - 5/26/2009 11:50:08 AM

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I'd say Clarkson has it right on the money. I don't think people are a dum-bass or not qualified to opine because they offend my ignorance.

DinamoR - 5/26/2009 4:35:37 PM

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clarkson is a dumb ass. that is not what the green movement is calling for at all.

wins555 - 5/26/2009 2:13:29 AM

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AGree!

wins555 - 5/26/2009 3:06:59 AM

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Agree with Clarkson!

BozzorTheGreat - 5/26/2009 4:56:37 AM

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These are some incredible words...

"I don’t want one. But I don’t want to live in a world where I never had the choice in the first place."

That is absolute genius and sums up so much of what is important in life.

abcd - 5/26/2009 11:45:13 AM

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Clarkson as usual have made good points:
"And if they happen to have a Hyundai, or a Kia or one of those Rextons, which is made by a company you’ve never heard of in a country you couldn’t place on a map, then their speed will not be measurable at all.

This is because cars made by companies that earn most of their profits from shipping and cutting down forests, and have an automotive division only because it’s good for the local economy, are almost always rubbish."

Lamborghini_vs_Ferrari_Racer - 5/26/2009 4:37:03 PM

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CLARKSON IS GOD!

commander104 - 5/26/2009 7:48:50 PM

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could this be called a "sleeper"

Agent63 - 5/27/2009 7:40:21 AM

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The Q7 with S-line package looks hot!

OneOfOne - 6/2/2009 2:56:27 AM

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there is far more uninhabited space on the planet than the reverse. all the eco douches should find some of those empty spaces and then crawl under them.