Audi A6 Allroad Quattro: car review | Martin Love

Audi's super competent A6 Allroad may look like an estate, but it has a dirty secret. It's actually an SUV in disguise

Price: 46,505
Top speed: 139mph
0-62mph: 7.5 seconds
MPG: 50.4
CO2: 159g/km

It was 1am when we rolled off the M6 and into the services at Charnock Richard in Lancashire. We were heading north but had run out of juice - both us and the car - and 40 for a double in the Days Inn sounded if not romantic, then functional at least. But my wife was worried it was a motel not a hotel, and that therefore we'd "be murdered, like in America!" We headed to the check-in where the night manager looked like a young, blond Schwarzenegger. Next to him a trucker FaceTimed his wife, who then put their parrot on the screen for a goodnight kiss" It felt like we'd arrived on the set of Twin Peaks.