Audi A8: London to Edinburgh and Back

This is a great clip where Jeremy Clarkson, a British car reviewer for the show Top Gear, takes a diesel Audi A8 on an 800 mile trip from London to Edinburgh and back, to see if he can squeeze 800 miles out of a 19.8 gallon tank. It's very well produced, fun to watch, and suspenseful. (And this is coming from someone who doesn't care much for cars.)

Enjoy!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6784354703472305949&q=top+gear

~Ulrika~

Diesel? Diesel!

Do you have any idea how polluting and vile a diesel is? Filthy muck!

Sounds like the engine's knackered. Pukes carcinogenic particles everytime the driver accelerates. Stinks. And you can't even tank up without getting your hands covered in it! AND it's gutless and has horrid driving characteristics...

Petrol - so you have fill up twice as often. So what! If you can afford an A8 you can afford to run it.

The man's finally lost it.

I think a proliferation of sites like Google Videos and YouTube.com have really helped to showcase things like this. I remember a time when I was looking for "fuel efficiency videos" and came up hard-pressed. I find something wonderful about videos like this is they really showcase not only the beginning and the end, but the journey in between. Too often I've read paper studies which didn't have a flavor.

I had an old car (well it was my Dad's, really) that was diesel-powered. I liked how cheap the fuel was in comparison, but now that I think more about it, the engine certainly had a distinctive sound of putt-putt-putt.

I can't think of Audi, now, tho, without thinking of myself, because of Jauani Wu's reference to Audi TT.

The interstitials showing the various panels and the "miles to go" decreasing, those are sort of like 24?