I wish they still made the Allroad for the States. I talked to the guys at Sunset a couple of years ago to see if I could buy one and have it modified for California emissions. The cost to do so was astronomical.
A buddy of mine who works in Germany owns one of the new Allroads. He owned one of the old ones in the States and says it's night and day difference in terms of handling.
I hate what is happening to cars. They all become so big and fat. What once used to be a 5-series BMW is now the size of a 3-series. What used to be a 3-series is now a 1-series. Same happens with Audi as well. It's a damn shame.
I personally like the bigger cars. Bigger looks classier to me. Compact cars are for high school girls IMO. The only small car I've ever liked is the VW GTI's.
Size has nothing to do with class, it is all the design. Anyone that thinks that the monstrosity of the gigantic Bangle BMW is better than the compact and taut E30 is out of his mind, imho. Big and classy? or small and classier? The big 7-series is just a mismatch of flame-surfacing and strange angles. To be honest, it is easier to get nice proportions with bigger/longer cars - but with the current blobs that are required by pedestrian safety regulations in Europe - even large cars are often rather ugly. (Audi, to be honest, does a better job of design nowadays than most other companies).
Then the size of my cock makes me the classiest man in the world and I had a 1984 silver Rabbit GTI for 9 years! Loved that ride!
The RS5 is a monster (450 hp V8): [video=youtube;QxbYMjyDCqs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxbYMjyDCqs&feature=related[/video]
They are cute. But if you are going with wrong-wheel-drive, might as well get a Peugeot 205 GTI, imho (not that the Mk1 GTI are not nice, it's just that the little Pug took them a notch higher in execution). These were truly the dog's bollocks.
