johndoh, I was concerned about this issue based on your previous posts, but I can happily say that a month into my A6 2.0TDi S Tronic I thankfully haven’t experienced any of this at all. If I let it stop/start on a roundabout while waiting it takes a second or so to start and move of, but if i don’t let it stop, by not pushing hard on brake, it is instant. I came from a manual 5 series so wasn’t sure what to expect right enough.

Oh, how disappointing. That’s not a 20 year itch scratched. That’s a 20 year itched gobbed at and roughly wiped down by some flubbery bearded lady masseuse. It’s hardly releasing your inner James Dean or Gordon Gecko.

Stalks off to contemplate my own midlife crisis and doing it right.

My daughter’s school friend can hand-fart “Ode to Joy”. A level of talent and dedication that I will never attain.

Hmmm, you’re not American are you?

Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that the OP has managed to buy a car an’ all. But let’s keep this in perspective.

For the price you paid for the Mecan you could have bought a proper MPV/SUV and a proper (used) Porsche. Opportunity missed!!!

Hope you enjoy it. I always wanted a car that was listed in the back of EVO magazine. Last year I acquired one. OK, it was just about the cheapest car listed (RS Twingo 133), and OK, I drive it about 50 miles a week in total, often with a bike in it, but you, know, it brings a smile to my face when it hits the rev limiter (every drive), and it reminds me of my late mother (who told be to buy a car and paid for it).

, yes, you did, fair point 🙂

I achieved my life goal in 2005 when i danced on a stage in an eastern European nightclub to the final countdown.

Everything since then has been icing.

I was talking to a bloke the other week who’d owned a car I’m particularly fond of, and would love to own, a Merc C63 AMG.
He’d had it on a lease for two years, and it cost him 10k! £400/month, 17/gallon, £1000 for a set of tyres, he went through three sets, £250 for new pads and discs, fitted by himself…
I can only dream of having the lifestyle to be able to run one…
But I have actually driven one. I get paid to drive cars, lots of cars, some ordinary, some pretty disappointing, some hugely desirable, and so far I’m not jaded at all, I really enjoy my job.

@tony the Macan drive is pretty amazing, the active suspension is very clever. I have owned my Cayman for 10 years so pretty familiar with it and I think having driven the Macan it would be about as fast round a circuit in my hands.

Why a Macan, its a 4 door / 4 seat car. “SUVs” are where the sales are these days.

I’d get really hacked off if I had a really nice, high-performace sports car in the UK – all that cash to get a superb bit of high-end engineering that can go like a turd off a shovel and then find myself spending so much time sitting in traffic jams which is the reality of UK driving now, and hoping not to get it scraped in the supermarket car park…

I’ve a mate living in abu dhabi who’s finally got himself a Dodge Charger – he’s wanted something like that for 15 years. Funnily, he doesn’t really care about it that much now he has it – it’s got a baby seat in the back for his daughter and all he really cares about now is his family… all that waiting and now he’s really not that fussed.

A mutual mate has the right idea – a Caterham – proper fun performance that you can actually get some fun out of on UK roads. Less of a fancy status symbol and more of a proper drivers car of course…

20 years ago exactly I dreamed/planned hiking and painting along the lengths of both the Severn Way and the SWCP. A total of 840 miles. A few months after 30th birthday disaster/disease struck and it’s been a tough 20 year process to get out of wheelchair and off crutches to now walk up to 3-4 miles a day, every day. Before incident I’d happily march 20-35 miles per day on long-weekends and walking vacations

With this progressive curve I predict another approximate 2 years of rehab/training at current rate to achieve 10 miles a day. This would see me taking about 28 months off to complete the walk.

This is a lot of forward planning/family negotiations and I’d have to figure in completing one (2-3hr) painting a day en-route to make it pay for itself. Backpacking with camping gear is out of the question but I’m damned if I’m not going to walk it, so planning to get/fashion a hand-cart for camping stuff. Stiles and gates challenge that option, yet needs must.

Part of me feels I should just give it up and aim for smaller, numerous goals as this stubborn will to see it through perhaps puts me in some kind of silly perma-mid-life-crisis. Maybe I should figure out a cycle-hike combo, yet I know deep-down it’s the uncomplicated walking/painting itch that needs scratching. Once in a lifetime 🙂

Isn’t that what keeps life interesting? Judging others is too harsh here, walk a mile in another’s shoes etc? After all, we each of us had/have dreams? Am really happy for the OP – onwards and upwards!

This is, pretty much, the only thing I have ever *REALLY* wanted.

Got a ’78 in tobacco sunburst. 8)
Don’t even play it; I play a £250 Yamaha bass.
Sorry. 😳

Yes, all cars get stuck in the same traffic. I gave up on fast cars due to the fact you can only drive around slowly following the traffic.

In the 80’s you could go out for a drive on a Sunday morning but now even going out at 08:00 you hit traffic.
Another 2 years and we should be back to the good old days what with Brexit and all.

I’ve always wanted a van, a nice battered old van I can keep in the squalid state it deserves. Finally, after years of destroying cars, my wife looked at the mud and gel caked upholstery and has decreed I’m just not to be trusted with cars and I should buy the shittiest panel can I can find 😀

The art of attrition!

Malvern Rider is currently winning the thread, and I say that as a Porsche fan who’d quite like a Macan. (I’d prefer a 911, but would happily accept a Macan if anyone’s offering…)

I’d say that by all reports the Alfa Stelvio is meant to be run the Macan very close to being the best small SUV however it wouldn’t fulfil your 20yr dream so fair enough.

Macan a compromise for a 911 – I think that your post actually points it out. The 911 hasn’t gone four seats and space for a young family hence compromise. Driving wise. Maybe I’ll try a Macan and see!

Sheesh, you’re a bundle of joy you lot !

Not all UK roads are stuffed full of cars crawling along at 30mph so it is feasible to enjoy driving, I stay in Galloway and it’s rather quiet when you get away from the A75 euroroute. Last week i drove home from Ayr to Kirkcudbright (60 miles) at 6.30pm and only encountered a handful of vehicles on the road of which the majority were heading up the road to Ayr, certainly way less than 20 vehicles for the entire journey which made my drive back down the road very peaceful and enjoyable.

I often used to head out for a “spirited/making progress” blast in my 190bhp MK2 golf gti when i had time or just fancied a wee jolly for shits n’ giggles, i’d very rarely encounter other traffic and there are extended sections of certain roads where you have full clear line of sight with no junctions/roads encroaching onto the main carriageway so you had no fear of someone pulling out in front of you, A cracking way to spend a couple of hours and £30 of petrol.

Enjoy your new car j5kol, don’t shout at the kids too much when they rub chocolate into the rear seats 😀

On relection my post was just mean. Not that the OP will care, but its not nice to piss on someones chips when they are excited.

The macan is apparently an awesome car, and whilst not what I’d buy, I can definitely see why hes excited.

I bought my Porsche on a whim one weekend, and whilst by no means as luxurous as the OPs car, they are fantastic motors. Hopefully see some pics up soon!