Audi A6

upcoming week, but here's a list I was presented to vote on.

The Audi A6, the Chevrolet Corvette in two different versions, Ford Mustang RTR and Ford Mustang Dark Horse, the Hyundai Ioniq 6N, the Kia K4 hatchback, the Lexus ES, and the Mercedes-Benz AMG GT four-door coupe and the Mercedes-Benz CLA 220 hybrid, a new Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan and S-Class, and then the Porsche Panamera.

I mean, some of these aren't even all new.

There's very few that are, to me, any kind of mainstream vehicle.

Not really, no.

I mean, you have RS6 at the top of the A6 family, but that doesn't have that factor.

No, it's 40 grand, 50

grand,

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm just trying to think if you...

The A6 e-tron is out.

Mm-hmm.

But they were successful in DTM.

And then by the late 90s, we see what is today, I think, among the most iconic of the historic Audi passenger cars, the series, the A, S, and now RS series of the A4, the A6, and A8.

Those all came out around the late 90s, early 2000s, after them having success in DTM and them having sort of rebuilt and regrouped.

And I think by this time, had joined forces with the Volkswagen Auto Group.

You know, they bring that luxury as well as the utilization of the all wheel drive.

They've managed to make some really interesting and compelling cars too.

And so from the late 90s through the early 2000s, we saw the release of things like the Audi A4, A6, A8, which then followed with the S4, S6, S8 cars.

We then saw the introduction of the Audi TT, The RS variants of these cars, you know, the RS4 we've talked about and waxed poetically about on this very show, talking about it among, you know, the pinnacle of those peak car era cars where we had a V8 in one of these cars.

What kind of car?

An Audi A6 2000.

All right.

So you

Because that's what 50-year-old men do now.

I see him in the CAF every Sunday morning talking about their Audi A6 estates and what they're going to do with their pension plan.

That's what 58-year-old men do.

You're utterly right.

Yep.

2006 through 2011, you could get your Le Mans Edition Audi.

Yeah, they sold a lot of those in Europe, obviously.

Yeah.

It's a heated seat.

It's a comfortable, warm, like Audi A6 heated seat.

Great.

I like that.

And even all these years.

What's that been now? Almost five, six years.

Yeah.

That the sports been out, I think, and that even the regular Bronco has been out since twenty twenty one.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, the seven's completely gone.

Well, they have the six, the A6.

So,

the, the thing flew off the shelves.

Hey, the, the A6, which is an e-tron, and also not an e-tron, exists, and the Q6, which is an e-tron, exists

The Q6, which is a legitimately good car.

There's a Q8 e-tron still, right? Yeah, somehow.