It’s lighter, faster, more powerful due to blah blah blah technical stuff blah blah stiffer springs blah blah polycarbonate rear window etc. It also costs 193 000 Great British Pounds. Which is quite a bit for an Audi, if we’re honest.
But just look at it.
Dear God.
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Audi R8 V10, Subaru WRX Sport, 2am, Hels Hoogte Pass, Stellenbosch.
These days, the people’s car company makes a car for every person on earth. Volkswagen is now a very big family, having gobbled up Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Seat, Skoda and even Bugatti.
Robert Downey Jr reprises his role as Tony Stark, an eccentric billionaire with an incredible blah blah blah. Explosions, Scarlett Johanson, the jaw-dropping Audi R8 Spyder and a race car being cut in half by a bearded guy with lightning for fingers. We can’t wait.
Drama. Last night.
The powers that be at Vorsprung-Goldwyn Television studios in Inglewoodstad, Kalifornia decided that an extra $50 000 (approx. R500 000) would really bring the plot to life in the well-liked but rather dull soapie The Days Of Our Uneventfulness. After fighting it out with Italian Executive Producers for countless rounds of pointless but well-catered meetings an agreement was reached. They could borrow a plot line from a very successful, raunchy but expensive Italian Soap called -loosely translated- “Also In My Back Of Me”.
Alrighty, so Audi were super cool and handed us the keys to a very badly abused Audi R8 V10 last week. Sodding journalists. Anyway, the car was simply magnificent and we’ll tell you all about it…tomorrow. But just to refresh your memory, here is my take on the first R8, followed by Gavin’s inevitably hilarious view on it as well.
The R8. To get it sideways, you have to park it like this.
It’s very easy to be cynical about the Audi R8. It has the very same engine as the RS4. It has the same sun-visors as the TT, as well as the same air-con switch gear. And when you’re handed the key there is nothing, not even a little R8 moniker, to distinguish it from, you guessed it, the TT’s keys.
This is all forgotten however when you simply stop for a moment and look at the car. It is quite extraordinary. Modern in every way yet with just the right amount of curves to make sure it retains that absolutely necessary supercar trait: sex appeal. And the R8 has that by the bucketload.
By Gavin Williams
Script: So are the days of our Uneventfulness
Season: 43
Cast: Mike Horn, Tina Hope, Cassidy Parker
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Like leaves blowing by on a gentle wind with absolutely nothing happening to them, so are The Days Of Our Uneventfulness.
EXTERIOR: NIGHT
Open on a well appointed study. A man, CALLAGHAN PIFARETTI enters. He is STILL MARRIED and has never HAD AN AFFAIR with anyone. Ever. In fact, he doesn’t know what AFFAIR MEANS. HE isn’t particularly DASHING or SMART. He fixes himself a scotch (which is actually apple juice in a decanter) and stares out of the bay window. In the courtyard below he sees absolutely NOTHING out of the ordinary.
His wife enters and tells him that the company is running smoothly, and there are NO HOSTILE TAKEOVERS from men with poorly executed pseudo-European accents and moustaches.
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