The Audi was lovely but I couldn’t get excited about it, seemed to lack soul that the beemer had.
I know exactly what you mean Gary. I have lost count of how many cars I have driven over the past 40 plus years of my driving life, but it runs into hundreds. If I had to rank them all then I’d say that probably 8 of the top 10 would be BMWs. They seem to be absolute masters of getting the right balance between quality, refinement, handling, performance and efficiency. Since first discovering how good they were over 20 years ago, I’ve moved away from them several times but have always found the alternatives to be lacking in one or more of these critical areas, and I’ve always been glad to move back to a BMW.
I was passing a BMW dealer today and popped in to take a look at the new X1 but they only had one and it was out on loan. They had an absolutely gorgeous X5 50i in Tanzanite Blue in the showroom, but at over £80k I was able to tear myself away from it ?