Living with the Audi SQ8 - 1000 miles in a week ! [CarVid19 Daily VLOG]
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- For this video we are going back to January, to a time before lockdown when it was OK to drive 1000 miles in a week, and I couldn't have asked for a better car to do it in...the simply awesome Audi SQ8.
It has 900Nm of torque giving huge amounts of performance. It is super comfortable with cutting edge autonomous driving technology, a trick anti-roll system and four wheel steering. The big question is what is it like to live with and just how thirsty is it ?
A big thanks to Audi UK for letting me experience the SQ8 for the week. It left quite an impression !
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I was shocked at the discrepancy between the onboard and manual mpg calculation. I thought it must be wrong, but it wasn’t! I designed software to keep track of mine. I do my calculations slightly differently. Example: Miles divided by litres times 4.546. There are 4.546 litres to a gallon.
So 341 miles divided by 43 litres = 7.9 miles per litre. Then times that by 4.5467 = 36.05 mpg. Keep up the good work Pete.
Took me a bit longer 😂😂
Great review I have the Sq7 and find it a joy and have gotten upto 44mpg and 30mpg round town.
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Wow, how things used to be. Driving, face to face meetings, expensive fuel. Great video, wonder when you'll get the chance to do a similar one again...
I was weird looking back. Seems so long ago 😂
I remember the days when we could jump in our cars and drive to work! Great video top car!
Seems so long ago 😂
I love London Driving me , My Chauffeuring City back in the early 2011
I used to love London driving back when I was a courier in the early 90s! Hyde Park Corner = Lydden Hill racetrack!! (without the hill, obviously)
I wish I had your parking skills. Technically the SQ8 surely is a good car, but to my taste and needs (apart from the fortune ist costs) it is too big, it‘s a real monster. Your suit is smashing!
Cheers Stephen. Glad you liked the suit 😜
Been waiting for this, great review. No surprise re: inaccurate computer mpg figures, Audi want you to think your car is giving better fuel consumption than the reality, they think you'll never check. My A6 is the same, more VAG dishonesty.
You have been very patient as it was you that asked for the brim test 👍
Driving on the wrong side…. Wait the driver seat is on the wrong side too… haha
The Vorsprung model is £103K but a fully specced S-Line with all the extras is about £90K, so you can have you cake and eat it. Audi is charging £13K for a black grill.
I almost have 1k miles on my SQ8 and I’m absolutely in love with this car’s comfort and performance.
Hey.... It's good to see Pete with a decent haircut... Hahahahaha... :-))...
You are just a big kid with that walkie-talkie. But to hear Mrs. PP was funny. You do know she's going to kill you? :-))... I'm surprised you weren't in sports mode trying to keep up with the Boss!!
OMG!! And Pete's now working for Gieves & Hawkes of Savile Row :-))... And... Back into scruffs the following day :-))...
OK! So you didn't put loads into the film, but I still found enough stuff to talk bollocks about :-))...
BTW. Lovely car, but I still prefer the new 2020 BMW X6M50i. Just something about that motor!! :-))...
She doesn’t know she was in this one 😜😂
@@PetrolPed - "She doesn’t know she was in this one"
Precisely my point. The Boss will find out. It's been nice knowing you Pete :-))...
Nice review. I do like the SQs - couldn’t match Mrs PP in the clubman though. You may have covered it before but I’d be interested in hearing about arrangements with dealers/press cars - fuel, mileage, insurance, dos/don’ts, restrictions imposed etc - do they vary, who are the strictest/least restrictive?
Manufacturers press cars are all pretty much the same. You get the car for a week, they insure it, no mileage limit, Delivered with full tank and collect with at least half a tank.
Some will give fuel cars for certain trips, Europe travel must by pre authorised. Not track use unless specific permission given.
Some brands are overnight loan only with collection. Dealers are normally anything from hours to a couple of days. They sort the insurance 👍
Petrol Ped many thanks for taking the time to reply. That’s really interesting. Thank you. 👍
Great review as always!
Thank You 🙏🏻
Do you think that in a long autoroute cruise, without sport drving,in she really more confortable than q8?in your video,she seems too loudly for a luxury car
Definitely a beast.
Yep 👍
Is it a V8 OR a V6 car 🚙. Great video 🍷🇦🇺
lawrence gatt 4.0L twin turbo V8 diesel with 48 volt mild hybrid.
Diesel V8 twin turbo with 48v mild hybrid to remove turbo lag and help economy 👍
Really enjoyed your review 👍. What sort of mileage did you get from a full tank of diesel? Was it anywhere near the 550 miles it said after you filled up ?
About 500 if I remember correctly 👍
Petrol Ped 👍
Lovely car, definitely a bit pricey though, my misses loves her suv's, I doubt she would spend 100,000 on one though, maybe a sq5 or sq6 🤔🤣🤣
SQ5s are great, apart from the nasty fake exhausts 😢
The on-board fuel computers are never accurate for some reason...I’ve never owned a car where the figures matched.
Is this diseal or petrol
Boom!
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Can I ask what your day job is?
Full time UA-camr now. Used to be a trainer in mobile communications technologies 👍
British car park spaces are ridiculous I can barely get my A4 in some of them they are so small.
I'd be happy with 25mpg in a beast like that, I had a TD5 Discovery that would do around that if I was lucky, and there's quite a gap between both those machines!! 😂👍🏻
I love with this video how you put walkie talkie in the cars! Such a you thing to do!
Mr PP had got better at using them. Really useful 👍
I enjoyed the video but you spent the majority of it discussing the mpg..This car cost 100k..It must have so many other features and characteristics to talk about ? A Doug DeMuro review of the same car would be 2 hours long 😀
You need to watch my other video with the same car 😜
ua-cam.com/video/wHhOAVCVZNg/v-deo.html
Hi pp 👍what a monster! Sounds a very powerful exhaust note! Cheep Lamborghini urus! But I also would prefer the rs6 estate! Gorgeous! 🥂
The Urus makes it look like a bargain and I would love an RS6 👍
I tell you what. The Audi may be cool but not as cool as your big old fashioned open barn-style garage
Thanks. It used to be part of a farm 👍
Good vid Peter, looking dapper in your bag of fruit. Amazing 900nm torque god that would pull a house down. Also petrol at 1.25 then what is it now ? Here in ozz its currently 85cents a liter bloody cheap ahh for my 6 litre V8 lovin it. Thanks again Dave from downunder 😎
Petrol is now just over £1 a litre. £1.02-1.06 👌
Last summer I paid £1.63 for Shell V Power at a motorway services 😳
£100k for a diesel SUV is crazy money! A great car but why you’d buy this over an RS6 is beyond me - who really cares about fuel economy if they’re spending that much on a car? Great video Peter 👍
It sure is a lot of wedge 😳
Just a suggestion, you could do a video comparing the S4, Ruby roadster and Charlie clubman. With things such as sound, interior quality, exterior favourites, pros and cons of all of the cars and practicality. What ever you decide to produce will be brilliant! Keep up the hard work your content is really entertaining. Thankyou for keeping me sane during quarantine. Stay safe.
Thanks for the suggestion 👍
sorry mate i stopped watching half thought this seems to be all about fuel economy. who buys an S audi and gives a toss about that.
There was plenty of other stuff in there too 😜
Sorry, I cannot agree. I do around 50k miles a year all over Europe and real range is really important to me.
Great review. Not overly surprised by the discrepency between real and Audi calculated mpg, they assume we'll never check 🙄
Urgh, it's not a discrepancy. It's the minority of time spent accelerating, whe mpg can / will be something like 3 - 10 mpg, that counters the majority of time spent at the mid-30's.
@@numbereightyseven I think you misunderstand the issue. Audi average mpg seem to overstate the figure e.g. Trip computer states the car is doing 32mpg when it is actually doing 28mpg. This is checked by filling the tank & noting the mileage. Next time you fill the tank, note miles travelled and the fuel used to calc mpg or km/l or if you prefer l/100km. Over time you will get a pretty good idea of what economy you can achieve. The longer you do this, the more accurate the figure will be because it will allow for things like temperature (which affects fuel density), and how accurately you "fill" the tank. Car manufacterers are not know for their honesty, try it :-)
@@peter.russell Car manufacturers' claims might be inaccurate, but a car's computer calculation is almost never wrong. That's an urban myth. PP calculated an actual mpg (miles on speedo, volume of liquid into tank) of 25.16mpg.
He then said he'd not noticed the gauge "not going below 30 that much."
There is no discrepancy here. The issue in your reply is with "you will get a pretty good idea of what economy you can achieve". No, people generally underestimate the effect of thirsty brief periods of acceleration.
Eg. If you drive 26 miles: 90% of it at 32mpg, and just 10% of it at 10mpg, you get 26mpg, ie using 1 gallon. (not of rounding in there).
10mpg under normal acceleration is probably conservative.
PP noticed the 90%of time at 32mpg.
@@numbereightyseven we are going to have to agree to disagree. The figures I have demonstrate the trip average mpg is not correct, you an try to persuade me otherwise but I know my calculations are correct.
Probably right there 😜😂
32-38 MPG is very low for this car. This is about 8.5lt/100km. I get this in my MX5....when i am driving calmly. BUt i suppose you did mostly highway miles so this is OK. Αnd then I saw you actually did 25 mpg (manual calc.) which seems to be the anticipated number for this dinosaur
Do you think if you put the SQ8 Prestige into its most comfort mode, that it would get anywhere near as comfortable and quiet a highway drive as the Q8, especially as the Q8 in its version of comfort mode? I love the power and look of the SQ8, and don't mind spending the extra money, but I do a lot of highway driving and I've heard that the loaded Q8 Prestige is incredibly quiet and smooth and comfortable a ride.
Loved this review and it was so nice seeing you driving a car & normal life out there before lockdown. Reminds us all that we will have that back again sometime soon. Very smart in your suit too 😊.
It was nice looking back and remembering the time I would regularly do 1000 miles a week while is was filming the TV show 👍
Pete, noticed the SQ8 had an in-armrest charging pad. Did you have the same overheating issues with the Audi that you do with Charlie?
The wireless charging is not such an issue with overheating, it's the combo of that AND wireless CarPlay.
Interestingly I had a magnet on the phone for my Mega Mount in the Mini so wireless charging didn’t work 😂
RS6.No RS4 plus a used mini clubman would be my route.👍👍
Actually I’d go RS4 too. The 6 is just a little too big 😬
I own a 2010 Audi A6 3.0 Tdi Quattro, with a 80 litre fuel tank. It costs me 100 pounds to fill up 😧, my mpg is circa 34.
Great video 👍, interesting insight to living with the SQ8.
Thought you’d get more than that 🤔
@@PetrolPed 34mpg is over 2000 miles and predominantly urban miles. Will easily do over 45mpg on a long journey.
As usual, a great review Mr PP. I really enjoy your content. I’m seriously considering trading my RS5 for the SQ8. I’m in the US so it would be the petrol version with 500hp.
Oh wow 😮
Quite an interesting 🧐 one that. We had a Vauxhall Insignia SRI VX-LINE TWIN TURBO DIESEL. To fill the tank fully would cost about £68 and we’d get around 732 miles in the tank. Now if you were cruising around 55mph you could get between 60-73 mpg. And yah that also is a bloody big car 🚙. Nice one ☝️ though Pete, I’ve always loved 💓 a good Audi. Please stay safe & healthy out there 💋
Wow that’s a good MPG number 👏
£1.28.9 per litre supermarket fuel! I’m now paying £1.22.9 for Shell Vpower. During the Covid19 outbreak. Just shows the difference in price in a few months. Before anyone moans, I’m a Supermarket HGV Driver.
Last summer I paid £1.63 for V Power at a motorway services. I was in a V10 R8 and ran out of fuel and had to put super in it 😳
Looks like a nice vehicle to drive on a daily basis & with plenty of performance when you plant your right foot 😉. 👍❤. Uk gallons different from U.S. gallons?
I'm averaging 23.5mpg atm with my LS3 6.2L; my best mpg has been
37.1 on a long highway trip.
In the Americas, a gallon is equivalent to 128 fluid ounces or 3.785 liters (American spelling). But in the UK, it's 160 fluid ounces or 4.546 litres (British spelling) 👍
The part of the vids where you are taking about the vorsprung option, those roads look familiar 🤔 it looks like the road from Church Stoke through Lydham and Plowden heading towards the A49. That's my neck of the woods. You could have called in for for a cup of tea 😊
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Big car. Time in London hurt your mpg. Hate city driving. But I do agree if I could spend 100k it would not be a big ol Audi suv.SUV. cheers to you have fun
Cheers Bud 👍
Long but still an interesting video, the Audi sounde great and seemed to drive very smoothly but I din`t know who would be the end buyer, someone with plenty of conkers and not worrying about economy I hear you say. If someone was to gift it to me I would take their hand off, wouldn`t anybody? See you tomorrow Pete Stay Safe.
It was such a busy week I had SO much footage. My first edit was 35 mins long 😂😂😂 Cut a lot out and had it not been for lockdown and I thought people might like the distraction I would have cut it even more 😜
1000 miles in a week...heaven!!! When will we get to do that again! Sounds like the Audi is a good choice but when depreciation has bitten! Safe driving out there...in the garden though! 😳😳😀😀😀😀Richard
The good old times 😂
That SQ8 is a sweet ride but I’m with you Pete, I’d have the RS6 💯 all day long. I think 25 mpg is pretty fair for a large, powerful, AWD SUV 👍🏻🇨🇦
It was a mega car 👍
Audi recommends a 1000 mile break in, which I did for the 18 Q7, guessing did not happen with the SQ8 u demo’d, wondering if they recommend it because if may avoid oil leaks which is so common with Audi?
Press cars don’t get run in 😂
Interesting impressions of this vehicle and I agree that Assisted Driving is great for some peace of mind in keeping to the speed limits - I use it all the time in my 330i. Can you tell me if there is any lag in initial acceleration as I have read recently with diesel 6 cylinder Audis? Regarding parking, I have heard that you can get a ticket by not parking within the lines - is this true?
Yep. Happened to my wife once 👍
Love the reviews Pete, and in general I'm rarely negative, but this perfectly illustrates how a 'Group' can add a different badge and charge double the price. Who in their right mind would choose a Urus over the SQ8? It does everything in the same way and one particular way, does it much better.... it preserves your street cred! Thanks PP, stay classy, take care.
I agree. This flies under the radar and the Urus sets it off 😂
Hello chaps
Simon W Evening
François G evening
Hi 👋
I was wondering what happened the SQ8. Definitely worth waiting for.
It may have been big for the car park, but you managed a great job parking it Pete, better than the Focus beside you!
Either spaces are small or the SQ8 is huge 🤔
I enjoyed that Pete. I didn't spec 4 wheel steer on my Q7 and haven't regretted it, you soon get used to the size of these big Audis and they're no problem what with the lightness of the controls and all the warning bleepers and chimes. Reversing a trailer is magic with the Audi assist mode, maybe you could feature that sometime if you haven't already. Cheers.
One of my favourite driving things to do is towing and particularly reversing trailers. I am pretty good at it 😬😜
You looked liked you were having a bit of a process getting to average mpg. 😂Try Miles driven, divided by litres filled, multiplied by 4.5 for mpg.
You should have seen the bits I cut out 😂😂😂
Hi Peter just goes to show the difference between the in car mpg readout and calculating it properly yourself. A 7mpg difference is huge.
Yep sure is 👍
Really enjoyed that. Imagine just being able to drive where you want to!!! Did your friends who weren’t we’ll have very bad flu symptoms?
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Good afternoon. Very very tasty car indeed. Technology has come along so far. Some for the better, but some for the worse. Very nice indeed.
Hi Bud 👍
Cool video Pete. Great to see ya out in a car, driving ! Even if it was old footage, pre - zombie virus 🦠. Cheers mate. Matt from Australia 🇦🇺
It was weird looking back while I was editing 😬
Oops... 4 people have mistaken you for a Justin Bieber video again
😂😂😂
Great video good to see some actual figures on mileage rather a beast of a car isn’t it, maybe an Audi RS6 review coming soon 👍
Can’t wait to get my hands in the RS6. Hopefully once lockdown is over 👍
Very smart fella. You are connected with the car lol.
Hi Pete. Quick question. I have bought a 2017 S3 saloon with matrix headlights same as sq8. Haven't put it on the road yet. Do you drive round everywhere on full beam or do you have to put it on dip beam around town. Really enjoying all your videos. U are a legend 👍🙂
You can do both but the cool thing with Matrix is to just put them on and they will put full beam on whenever they can 👍
@@PetrolPed Cheers Pete 👍
Is it Monday already?
Yep...well it’s now Tuesday 😜😂
Way behind with the uploads. Loved this one Pete and no need to apologise, the longer the content the better. Thank you.
Thanks Darren. I appreciate that you always take the time to comment 👍
I have a 2018 sq7 vorsprung. I was looking at the sq8, what would you prefer now you have driven the sq8 for a week.
I think the SQ8 looks a bit more sporty and menacing but the SQ7 is probably more practical. Driven them both and there’s not much in it. Both brilliant 👏
Thanks for the info Pete, I am just not sure where to go after the SQ7 its a monster and so capable in all respects, love the channel 👍
Test drove this as my 4.4 V8 diesel Range Rover replacement but noticed a huge lack of power before 3,500rpm... did you not notice this on your review?!
Hi
Hi 👋
The unmistakable clink of wine bottles in the footwell 🍷🥰
Damn...someone noticed 😂😂😂
you new home: petrol station
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I'd say keep it more about the car. Very little info in 25 minutes...
I create a mix of content on the channel. These ‘living with’ videos bring another angle to look at the car from. They generally get a very positive response 👍
@@PetrolPed I have just seen your review and really liked that format! Never seen another reviewer answer viewers' questions!
Dapper and scruffy Pete in one video! ;)
LOL 😂
SQ8❤💖💗
Who is this guy with the nice hair cut driving the sq8?
Some dodgy geezer 😂
@@PetrolPed 🤦🏼♂️😂😂
What a beast! Vorsprung pack gives you more than you'd ever need. Love the self drive function, un nerving though !!
Very 😬😂
Great video, torque monster...
Indeed 😳
Really liked the video.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Nice to see you drive past my house hahaha
Did I 😳👍👍
Petrol Ped just north of oxford on your way from the Cotswolds...and your right first thing at sunrise it’s amazing
Hi Ped
I do like this car, but price and size are negatives. Economy figures not bad considering what’s under the bonnet. Can understand RS6 being preferred choice. We can but dream.😉
And it’s a good dream but a dream non the less 😂
Hello all
Hi there 👋
Hi
Hi 👋
First! Evening guys!
only 1.40 pm here in Quebec, CA :)
Boom 💥
Don’t put your dog in someone else’s car.
Why not ?
It’s the weekend 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Nice review nice car but I could spend my money on some nicer cars👍🧽🦠😷
Yep 👍
Another great video Pete, great tech and the torque to overtake was amazing. Personally if I was lucky enough to own one I wouldn't be looking at the mpg as just would enjoy driving it 👌
I know. Don’t get me wrong the car is all about the driving 👌
Looked like a nice motor. Don't quite understand the focus on mpg - to be honest, if you are buying an SQ/ RS / M car you are buying it for noise and performance and understand that there is going to be a price to pay for that. If you want to ring out maximum mpg all the time then you are going down the standard TDI route. What was quite interesting was the disparity of what the car was telling you and what you actually got though. Not going to bother with a similar exercise on the RS3 though - what the car is telling me is bad enough!
I find it interesting how these kind of performance cars can vary so wildly in the efficiency 🤔
Someone looks delicious in a suit 😁
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1000 miles in a week during lockdown? How? All essential journey...? Please explain.
Did you actually watch the video ? The intro clearly stated it was filmed in Jan 🙄 Think before having a go 🤔
@@PetrolPed No, I actually don't watch videos like this, I only comment on them, this why I asked. Well done kid and stay alert!
Kim Riley Made yourself look a right mug there didn’t you 🙂
@@garymason7 A mug? I don't think so...I only asked for an explanation as I did not even watch the video. 🙂
@@PetrolPed Why would anyone comment on a UA-cam video without watching it? Thats like buying CDs and never listening to them. Big fan of your channel keep them coming.
Love the review, of course we don’t get that car here in the US, keep them coming Pete👍😁😎
Not another one 😢