Audi R8 V8 Test Drive since 2007 compartment

Twilight playboy

An annual quota on the Audi R8, which is allocated to Russia, is only 100 cars per year. Who are these happy Russians, for whom the factories of German non -Karsuslims perform labor exploits for the editor -in -chief of the autopilot is extremely clear. Always categorical in his judgments, he united these people into a special category - citizens who would like to lead the lives of permanent playlies, but they have a serious business. Therefore, these citizens are playboy on the residual principle. That is, most of the calendar year is carried by a personal driver on the eight of Audi. The output part of the year they themselves take the family to the Audi Q7. Finally, in the happiest of 365 days - but most likely these are happy nights - they get behind the wheel of Audi R8. To understand for themselves and make it clear to others that they are quite e-gi!
Black, but not boomer. For the first time, this amazing black car was tested by me on the Tracpeedway Lausitz track when it was still gray. Gray, not in the customs counterfeit sense, but gray precisely in the color of the body. The second time, this stunning black car was tested by me on the track of the Tushino airfield. And then he was already black.
 
I liked the black Audi R8 with silver sides than the gray Audi R8. This anthracite kner lifts the vehicle qualification to an immeasurable height. This kner indicates the presence of a developed taste. As Salvador Dali used to say, to check the presence of taste in a person is easier: the color of the carpet in his house should be combined with his eyebrows. Gray R8 is gray eyebrows, and the seventh R8 is no longer. In addition, in a gray car, the side linings are almost white. And it’s hard to imagine them some other. But on the black R8, there can be any shade. At least yellow. At least red. Even without hesitation - green. And these experiments with a palette will not worsen the car at least.
 
Going crazy with the car only because of its color is in 99 cases out of 100 girlfriend. Going crazy in black is the case of R8. Attempts to present the R8 car in other colors are doomed to failure.
    
Running ahead of the steam locomotive is stupid, running ahead Audi R8 is unrealistic. Nevertheless, one of the American clients tried and overtook time, posting $ 12,601 at the Ebay online auction for the right to conduct the test drive of this car. Lucky tested the car first at the training ground in Nevada, and then on the streets of Las Vegas.
Additional acceleration to the R8 advertising was given by designer Karl Lagerfeld, who made a series of black and white photographs of cars on the Plainer near San Trope and introduced it to the public in the New York Audi Forum. His work and Kaleidoscopic calendar Kaleidoscopic Vision of a Car, which reveals new design prospects and which is awarded to some chosen customers Audi R8.Audi R8 Black wakes up fantasies. Fantasies of a very different nature. He reanimates the creative body, even if this organ was bought to the appendix. He is so beautiful that you think: my God, have there any cars in this world to the Audi R8? And were those cars - cars? Everything fades before the beauty R8. Stunning shapes, eyes, face, under a transparent glass motor, illuminated by white LED lamps ... Then it is excusable to go astray on the Playboevsky Tezaurus.
The unique exterior design may even make you think that the R8 is not Audi. But being inside the car, you will understand that this is the most Audi. These devices (the arrows of which, when the ignition is turned on, make you salute, jumping to their maximum, and then falling off), these buttons, design elements, art and technological things you see in A8, TT, and Q7, and in A4 , and in Allroad.
In the chairs of this car, which seem to adapt to your figure by themselves, it is very pleasant to sit. Do not go anywhere, but just sit in a parking lot at a popular restaurant, at a fashionable boutique, on Red Square. In short, in a place where people walk past you in crowds. They go, take the car and you in it for a work of art, shoot and remove the whole family on their digitalists and mobile phones. If they are lucky, they can even see a bird during photographing. It’s you by pressing the key, on the central tunnel, raised a spoiler as a greeting. In dynamics, he rises himself, it is worth passing the car a certain, over a hundred, line.
 
The door nicknamed the beast. Any fool brought by the wind into the Ferrari Scaglietti car will understand that this is a bomb. Audi R8 is not a bomb. This is a slow -off mine. Fools do not know this. And they risk joking with Audi R8 jokes.
 
My acquaintance said that at night Audi R8 is often confused with TT, and believing that the TT-owner can be hazardous, cut it and do not notice it, and somewhere they even discriminate. In the daytime, aggression becomes less, and more respect. But still, in the views of most simpletons, bewilderment brings out. What kind of car is this? It is clear that it is cool, but how much?
 
And this is like an album of good and very serious music, which, unlike pops, is not included in you with liquid spam. Rather, you enter it. At first, serious music that falls on you from a dozen speakers of the Bang & Olufsen audio installation in 465 watts is difficult. She may not even like her. You may even strangle you at first. But having made an effort on yourself, comprehending this music, you will understand how much the world is more complicated than the potassium-raspberry. And the malicious habit of listening to serious music turns into love.
 
In order to put a more economical LED optics on the Audi R8, the concern needed the official resolution of the European Union. And the economical European Union gave it. Now the LEDs work in all modes - daylight, dimensions, near and highlight. In just one block fluvation-54 diodes. Audi first introduced achievements in the field of LED technologies in 2003 at a Detroit car dealership. The Pikes Peak concept was equipped with LED fog. At the Geneva salon of the same year, the Audi Nuvolari Quattro concept with LED headlights was demonstrated. Now Audi equips with LED boots of daylight headlights in models such as the Audi A8 W12 (2004), Audi S6, Audi R8 and Audi A5 (since 2006). Audi R8 is a really complex car. Here, even at the level of intuition, such opportunities are felt that it makes no sense to discover. And, probably, do not take risks. This machine is created so that you look behind the hidden door called GT. He looked, scared and did not enter. In order to control the GT machine, you need to practice a lot. In order to survive at GT at full move, we must have the highest qualifications.
 
But if you intend to get up to Grand Turismo cars without fools - buy yourself Audi R8 first. And only then think about Ferrari F430, Porsche 911 GT, Pagani Zonda. By the way, I could not even predict whether Audi would go to the GT championships. And whether she will go with this, of course, strongly redone, the R8 apparatus or build another. The company is now on such a crazy rise, its victorious tide is so strong that Audi seems to be ready to swing at any bold projects. It will be necessary, and the Mark Road will build (of course, with a quattro drive).
 
German cars traditional customers of German tuning studies. In order for the Audi R8 to become even better, several companies are ready to take up at once. Kircherer, at the request of the client, will reduce the ground clearance in front and behind by 15 and 30 millimeters, respectively, and also increase the diameter of the wheels to 19 and 20 inches. ABT SportsLine, in addition to installing 20-inch unique discs and anti-wing, is also engaged in adjusting the suspension. Atelier B&B too they will conquer over the Audi R8, increasing the power of the atmospheric eight from 420 to 450 horsepower (thereby dropping 0.3 seconds from the acceleration record to a hundred) and reducing the clearance by 10 millimeters in front and 20 millimeters in the back. 20-inch wheels and accessories in the assortment. Flight management. R8 is not a GT car. This is an absolute high-tech, this is refined futurism, and GT is a sport where all technological, design, aerodynamic are in a word, in general, all developments-have a dull narrow-minded goal: to make the car go even faster.
 
Although the R8 rides quickly, this car is rather in order to accustom the driver to 420 horses, to try their lynx than to drive these horses in the gallop, and immediately go to the other world. Audi electronics, its four -wheel drive, a robotic box will save the driver from idiotic acts. Along the way, I note that a robotic box is undoubtedly an application for the future, but it forces you to conduct a complete audit of your driver skills, you will have to master the steering wheel control algorithm as an unfamiliar computer program.
 
For my taste, I would still refuse the help of the auxiliary systems. I would just be terribly interesting to see not civilized, but the animal grin Audi R8. In a sense, a little bit, this idea gives fun with the Launch Control system. You put the sports mode S, turn off the ESP, hold the brake, click the gas until it stops, that is, up to 8,000 rpm, throw the brake ... flew! After 4.6 seconds, you have one hundred kilometers per hour on a speedometer, after 10.3 - 200 km/h.
 
Well, of course this is cool. This can blow somewhere in the area of \u200b\u200bthe rear luggage shelf the head of your sweet companion. Moreover, as easy as her hat. If after some time pressed ceramic brakes more, then the head with a hat will probably fly back. But this attraction with Launch Control and the brakes, of course, is not such a lethal force that he farthest every time.
If I were a marketer of the company, I would leave the first version of this LE MANS car with a five -liter V10 engine and 610 horses. I would be interested in what she is.
 
On the Audi R8 in its current form, before rushing at a speed of 301 km/h, you need to put hellish rubber. Type of Michelin Brillant Sport tires, which are produced ten sets per season. The fact that tires are half of the car, all the more so, you don’t even need to prove. It is enough to recall how and why the racer Michele Alboreto died in Lausitz. On standard tires, riding at high speeds is a Russian roulette. This is called: if I die, I forgive; And I’ll survive - let's see.
 
Driving: no worthy motor? But do you want V12 with a capacity of 2000 hp. (two thousand!) At 2800 rpm: four valves per cylinder, mechanical supercharger, direct injection, dry crankcase. Like? 35.7 liters of a working volume, 730 kg of weight and 2.3 m long, but it works great on gasoline with an octane number 87. Twisting the moment is an immense, I think, not lower than 3200 N.M! The engine was made in Germany in 1944, stood at Messerschmiti-BF109G. But the motor from Messerschmitt is useless. Modern supercar is not so much gigantic power as absolute control, reliability, comfort, ease of management and reasonable price ... sharp, but soft taste is guaranteed. How to go along a thin line between an uncompromising racing car and a comfortable roadway, especially if all technical solutions are defined in advance? Who is he, Audi R8? Luxurious sybarite or fanatical athlete? They say there is only one way to find out the taste of the pie ...
Automobile newspaper Klaron: hot noon of the Nevada. I park opposite the entrance to the casino. (Just don’t think that I decided to twitch the bird of good luck by the tail. Just in Las Vegas, wherever you stop, you will see a casino sign next to it.) I did not have time to turn off the unusual-a thin tattoo of the LEDs-the Audi R8 backlight, as I see: I see me: to me A tall dark -skinned beauty is directed in a terribly senior evening dress, and behind her - a pair of macho, as if who had come down from an advertising shield.
- How Much? she poked a finger in R8. Brights with a large diamond sprayed in all directions.
-- 104,400 euros in standard configuration, miss, - I answer politely.
- Output? - Continues the dark-skinned woman to pose with the addiction of the expert.
- 420 horses.
- Speed?
- 301 km/h.
- What I can business? - She takes the bull by the horns.
Where can you buy it, beauty? I answer with considerable pleasure:
-- In Moscow!
Author: in terms of accuracy of response to gas, Audi R8 clearly does not reach the Porsche 911, especially when you go one third of the pedal. This is time. On the other hand, the furry of the engine is too linear to be called rage. These are two. And the point is not only in the flat characteristic of the moment! There is no sound hysteria here, there is no victorious passionate cry! Please try again. The second. Full gas. Four thousand revolutions, five ... Well, where is it? Six, six and a half ... well, well ... seven, eight ... well, dear, well! Passing the eight -thousandth mark, the tachometer arrow stopped, and the acceleration stopped. Wide, without screaming. Ordinary shortness of breath. Once again, abundant cosmetics have misled me. Thank you, dear, you tried. Everything was wonderful. And the brakes are three. From the point of view of effectiveness, they are magnificent, although they whistle, there is even an option - fashionable cermet (for Gallardo, by the way, this was not offered). But the settings ... Okay, I think it's me, corrupted by the stunning feedback of the Porsche 911 brakes, I just can’t get used to it: no matter what braking, then a bit of a nose. I give way to a lady from a businessman. So, after all, she has a continuous overdose.
QUATTROROROOTE.RU: By inserting the key into the ignition lock, we turn it slightly and press the gas pedal to start an eight -cylinder engine with a volume of 4.2 liters. The driver sits low enough, and it is not easy to see where the short hood ends, but thanks to the adjustments of the steering wheel and chair it is quite possible to choose the right landing for sports driving. As soon as you get behind the wheel, you immediately understand that the new Audi supercar does not need to be perceived at all as a purebred racing car, which is capable of taming only a few groups of virtuoso riders. Rather, it is a magnificent Grand Turismo, impressive, first of all, with its ability to be a car for everyday driving. The amount of free space on board for the driver and passenger, equipment, decoration, visibility - there are no complaints about anything. Everything is good and with slow movement in parking - the clutch can be thrown and not afraid to drown out the motor, while the maneuvers do not reversing thanks to a good review back, which was difficult to expect. Having left the resort on the outskirts of Las Vegas, we are heading towards the mountains surrounding this city, located in Nevada ...
Audi R8
Gasoline engine, v8
Working volume (cubic cub) 4163
Power (L. S. at about/min) 420 at 7800
Moment (Nm at rpm) 430 at 4500-6000
The drive is complete
Gearbox6-st. MKPPR-Tronic
Length/width/height (mm) 4431/1904/1252
Equipped mass (kg) 15601565
Maximum speed (km/h) 301
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 4.6
Fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 22.1/10,220,4/9.6
Price in Moscow $ 170 261 $ 181 942
We thank for help in organizing the shooting of Audi Russia (495)234-0233 and the Russian Automobile Federation
Text Nikolay Fomenko
Photo Andrey Danilov
          
 
 
 

A source: "Autopilot"