We all tend to come onto forums and complain about this and that and how something squeeks or rattles or just plain doesn't work. Hopefully below will show you just why we pay that little bit more for our cars and when it really matters the strength of these cars are second to none.
My car is a fabulous silver s3 2007 reg with only 12k on the clock. It's stunning and I have had it about 6 or 7 months. On thursday we had some of the worst winds I have known for a while here in the north west. I was at a meal in Chorley and on returning to Blackpool on the M55 there was some debris covering the outside and a little on the middle lane. The xenons picked it out really well so I slowed and pulled into the middle lane, a lorry was in the inside lane and a car about 50 metres behind in the middle lane. On the outside lane a guy powered through the debris which then lifted up a large panel of what looked like polystyrene but must have been something along the lines of a upvc windowframe, the wind then caught it and it blew right into my car hittin the bonnet while still rising and smashing into the A Pillar.
I carried on as myself and the person in the car with me thought it was simply some polystyrene, it did make a very loud sound but the car was not affected in it's motion.
I got home and my heart sank, the damage cause is horrible to look at on what was an un-blemished car. In the morning i investigated a little more and realise in all honesty I am lucky to be alive had it landed just a foot the other way i'd have been in trouble. The guy at the bodyshop said if I was in a peugeot or hyundai or the like I would be dead right now, but the super reinforced a pillars saved the day. So thank you Ingolstadt for keeping me safe.....
My car is a fabulous silver s3 2007 reg with only 12k on the clock. It's stunning and I have had it about 6 or 7 months. On thursday we had some of the worst winds I have known for a while here in the north west. I was at a meal in Chorley and on returning to Blackpool on the M55 there was some debris covering the outside and a little on the middle lane. The xenons picked it out really well so I slowed and pulled into the middle lane, a lorry was in the inside lane and a car about 50 metres behind in the middle lane. On the outside lane a guy powered through the debris which then lifted up a large panel of what looked like polystyrene but must have been something along the lines of a upvc windowframe, the wind then caught it and it blew right into my car hittin the bonnet while still rising and smashing into the A Pillar.
I carried on as myself and the person in the car with me thought it was simply some polystyrene, it did make a very loud sound but the car was not affected in it's motion.
I got home and my heart sank, the damage cause is horrible to look at on what was an un-blemished car. In the morning i investigated a little more and realise in all honesty I am lucky to be alive had it landed just a foot the other way i'd have been in trouble. The guy at the bodyshop said if I was in a peugeot or hyundai or the like I would be dead right now, but the super reinforced a pillars saved the day. So thank you Ingolstadt for keeping me safe.....