Thread: D4 faster than 200series? Youtube video.

You got blown away by a Prius as well? ... the one that got me was a Taxi and it had fifteen Pakistani tourists in it ... I agree doesn't it just suck! ...

By the way anything that goes sub 4 to 100 is freaking fast, that must have been fun. ... and my bet is on the Porsche 911 on the Gibb River Rd. ...

The big downside for the Disco is the weight. The 3.0 SDV6 is a great engine, but it is carting around some serious kilos. Will be interesting to see what happens with the next generation when it is gone on the RR diet. Should help the fuel economy too.

Just look at the performance of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and its great fuel economy, 8 speed gearbox like the Disco but a few hundred kilos less.

Meantime, I never met a kilowatt I didn't love. But if you want to go really fast, get a motorcycle or stay at home - apart from Rich84 and his supersleeper S4. Usually the lads in hot WRXs and whumpetty V8s get disposed of without even nearing redline.

Originally Posted by powerd

The big downside for the Disco is the weight. The 3.0 SDV6 is a great engine, but it is carting around some serious kilos. Will be interesting to see what happens with the next generation when it is gone on the RR diet. Should help the fuel economy too.

Just look at the performance of the Jeep Grand Cherokee and its great fuel economy, 8 speed gearbox like the Disco but a few hundred kilos less.

Meantime, I never met a kilowatt I didn't love. But if you want to go really fast, get a motorcycle or stay at home - apart from Rich84 and his supersleeper S4. Usually the lads in hot WRXs and whumpetty V8s get disposed of without even nearing redline.

Thats right the SDV6 is a sweet sweet engine and I'm agreeing there hopefully it gets some good weight shed off it and that really makes a big difference to performance and fuel economy!!

My mates Q7 is great on fuel and pretty slippery to when you stick the boot in and i think its like 170kw and 550nm cant remember he's got one of the first ones but it still feels like it wants to go!

Originally Posted by Rich84

I love my 2.7 RRS, but I have to laugh when people 'race' 4wd's. After all, no one really cares as long as they perform acceptably. I'm sure that's not just me? Just like I don't really care which out of a Porsche 911 or a Ferrari 458 italia would perform better on the Gibb River Road. You already know they're both going to suck.


My last car was a stage 3 B5 Audi S4 putting down ~366awkw. 0-100 in under 4 seconds and a quarter in the 11's - in an understated looking sport sedan, no gay spoilers or anything, no lumpy idle. For the stop light drag it would take nearly any car on the road by surprise, even supercars!


THAT was a blast.


In comparison I remember about a year ago I had an edge-of-the-seat race in the RRS up the freeway vs a Toyota Prius. I manually shifted to fourth because the autobox was holding third way too long and the diesel has no grunt up high. I think that's what lost me the race.

Definitely agree there really to me performance isn't that big of an issue when buying a 4WD i had a TD 150 Prado Auto it was slow as but seemed to feel pretty acceptable when getting going.

As for the RRS i can imagine you would love the SDV6 3L they are so good to drive such a nice engine the torque is just so smooth and sweet i love it. I love giving it a boot away from the lights other than that it doesn't really bother me the speed.

Thats what i tried to tell my mate when he wants an SQ5 i said really its not that important i personally think it will be rough as crap for out back roads out in central QLD but anyway i said a Rangie Evoque would be great for what he needs long distance highway KMs although I've never been in an Evoque i imagine they would be pretty comfortable and smooth.

Ohh that Audi sounds like a machine!

Originally Posted by TerryO

You got blown away by a Prius as well? ... the one that got me was a Taxi and it had fifteen Pakistani tourists in it ... I agree doesn't it just suck! ...

By the way anything that goes sub 4 to 100 is freaking fast, that must have been fun. ... and my bet is on the Porsche 911 on the Gibb River Rd. ...

ha! yes this one was a conservative looking bloke driving. Both empty cars so I can't offer any excuses... the sun was in my eyes? Autobox was in the wrong gear? (it was...)


At the end of the day it's a relaxed car that likes being driven in a relaxed way. Not really an autobahn stormer! The 3.0 might be different, I've never driven it, but for the first time in my life I wasn't obsessed with power when buying my Sport - I could've had the SUPERCHARGED model for similar coin (2 years older though) but for what I wanted the TDV6 was the perfect option, or maybe the TDV8, but at that point they were $15K more and I didn't want to dish that out.


It's not like I need more demerit points anyway!


The Audi was fantastic, I had a ball with it and so now is the new owner. I sold it at the right time though. Can pick up a similar one for half the price or less now. I did a few trips from Adelaide to Cairns in it and realised that I needed something that was more suitable for that sort of thing, with longer range, way more room, good economy and most importantly, me not being worried if I hit a floodway in it, or bottoming out in road train ruts on some of the dirt roads around Aramac and Torrens Creek. Or the fact that the cast alloy sump was practically the lowest point on the car.


So yes it's funny you should mention central QLD! Love it out there, but the roads are at best, not great. At worst they are bloody awful. SQ5 might be great out there, but you seriously need some underbody protection, and the german stuff doesn't have it unless you buy an ML with the off-road pack (which there are NONE of second hand). RRS was the only car I looked at that adequately squared away my desire to do off-roading while also knowing that over 99% of my driving is on-road.

I may pick up another S4 if I find one cheap that needs work, someone's gotta keep those WRXs and EVOs in line!!

When I want sub 4s to 100 I get on the bike.
Beyond that the D4 is a pleasure to drive, does everything it should and more.
Boy racing a 2700kg brick is stupidity.

Originally Posted by Rich84

ha! yes this one was a conservative looking bloke driving. Both empty cars so I can't offer any excuses... the sun was in my eyes? Autobox was in the wrong gear? (it was...)


At the end of the day it's a relaxed car that likes being driven in a relaxed way. Not really an autobahn stormer! The 3.0 might be different, I've never driven it, but for the first time in my life I wasn't obsessed with power when buying my Sport - I could've had the SUPERCHARGED model for similar coin (2 years older though) but for what I wanted the TDV6 was the perfect option, or maybe the TDV8, but at that point they were $15K more and I didn't want to dish that out.


It's not like I need more demerit points anyway!


The Audi was fantastic, I had a ball with it and so now is the new owner. I sold it at the right time though. Can pick up a similar one for half the price or less now. I did a few trips from Adelaide to Cairns in it and realised that I needed something that was more suitable for that sort of thing, with longer range, way more room, good economy and most importantly, me not being worried if I hit a floodway in it, or bottoming out in road train ruts on some of the dirt roads around Aramac and Torrens Creek. Or the fact that the cast alloy sump was practically the lowest point on the car.


So yes it's funny you should mention central QLD! Love it out there, but the roads are at best, not great. At worst they are bloody awful. SQ5 might be great out there, but you seriously need some underbody protection, and the german stuff doesn't have it unless you buy an ML with the off-road pack (which there are NONE of second hand). RRS was the only car I looked at that adequately squared away my desire to do off-roading while also knowing that over 99% of my driving is on-road.

I may pick up another S4 if I find one cheap that needs work, someone's gotta keep those WRXs and EVOs in line!!

The roads are rank in central QLD i said i think it would be too rough with sports suspension and 21s but thats up to him he seems to have turned into an Audi fanatic and won't change to anything else under any circumstances at all but good luck with it haha!!

I love how comfy my D4 is over the rough stuff just so nice!!

I've just stepped out of a MY10 200 series into a MY15 D4 and in my very limited experience with the D4 to date the D4 runs away from the cruiser at highway overtaking speeds.
The pull from 80 to 140 kph is far better than any standard Toyota 4x4 diesel

Originally Posted by Peteren

I've just stepped out of a MY10 200 series into a MY15 D4 and in my very limited experience with the D4 to date the D4 runs away from the cruiser at highway overtaking speeds.
The pull from 80 to 140 kph is far better than any standard Toyota 4x4 diesel

They certainly are a great car I'm sure as time goes by and you get more and more time behind the wheel of your D4 you'll just fall more in love with it as most people do and will find it hard to ever drive anything else they just such a great car!