Posts Tagged ‘V10’

Gratuitous car porn: The 2011 Audi R8 GT

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

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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Driven (very quickly): The Audi R8 V10

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

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.

And if soap operas have taught us anything it’s that families suffer sibling rivalries. Which is exactly what prevented the Audi R8 from getting the engine it always deserved: The 5.2 litre V10 from it’s flashier older brother, the Lamborghini Gallardo.
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Soap Opera Gets Sound

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

R8 3:4

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”.

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