Audi R8 V8 Test Drive since 2007 compartment

Prize game

In Las Vegas, slot machines are right in the arrival hall. He came off the ramp and, having passed fifty steps, you can already push a hundred -dollar bill into a crack. Nearby someone is greeted by a girl, combed under Marilyn Monroe and even in a dress the same as in the famous photo with the metro station from which she blows. Nearby is a black driver in white, almost Admiral, a tunic with gratings. In the hands of the mr.black plate. At a distance, people in black with Audi signs. It seems that everyone plays here and play everything.
Desert patrol. Each game has its own rules. At one time you could play with a machine gun, right from a credit card. Now they were banned, because in the evening whole states were blown here. Only for cash. Another rule suggests that the speed of speed by 10 miles per hour costs $ 350. And if at 50, then the handcuffs will be put on you and put in a real camera to criminals. Well, Snowball, come here soon! A few days before our visit, some journalist from Europe was thrown into the stain, and the Audi staff managed to remove him from Nar for $ 1,500. Through the court, of course.
And now imagine. A two -lane path with excellent asphalt curls between pink rocks. Two dozen identical cars travel along it. These cars can start up to hundreds in just 4.6 seconds. After another 10.3 seconds, the speedometer arrow would cross the mark of 200 km/h. The maximum speed is 301 km/h. We are sick at a speed of 55 miles per hour. Here is a national park, and there are signs on the roadsides that prohibit not only hunting, but also have a charged weapon in the car. Who can you shoot here? In the Comm. Or in airplanes-somewhere nearby there is a US Air Force base, and phantoms are flying over our heads, whose speed is limited only to sound barrier. In the so -called we drove the convoy along Nevada for almost two hours. And it was torture.
Closer to twilight, we returned to the same reserve. A strict aunt-ranger at the checkpoint did not want to let us in: you, they say, have a good car, and I have a good job, I don’t want to lose it, but my colleague folded my hands and prayed it, as in the Hollywood melodrama: ay meal that kip E AIDS Limit! Trust mi, pliz! The woman frowned under her military hat and a chin showed towards the road enveloping the rock.
The booth disappeared around the bend, and you can check the operation of the Launch Control system. They will catch, do not catch, even, red, red-black, Zero wins. While the speedometer shooter is at zero, select the Sports mode S. and turn off the ESP. Now, holding the brake, click on the gas, and when the tachometer shooter goes off scale for 8,000 revolutions, optimal for power and thrust, we throw the brake ... In the first second, it is not clear - this steering wheel wants to break out of the hands or the chair painfully poked into the shoulder blades: The monstrous roar Audi R8 shoots forward.
Chips in a heap. We got a version with a R-Tronic box. Audi is said to be made from scratch. Evil languages \u200b\u200bclaim that this is only a modified version of the E-Gear box, which is placed on Lamborghini Gallardo. If you play with a one -armed bandit and want not to reap the button, but to pull the handle, then you will have such an opportunity. So here. The handle of a mechanical box walks in a cululis of polished stainless steel-exactly the same as on Gallardo. In a leisurely city stream, the mechanic is even more convenient. Because at low speeds, an automatic box just sleeps a lethargic sleep. Plus at a traffic light, if you hold your leg on the brake for more than half a minute, it flies into neutral. If this feature is not known, then the green light is lit, you click on the gas, and the car roars, but does not go, and now some stretch-limousine will sign up at the back. However, we don't care. The purpose of our route is not a casino, but Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Of course, we were not allowed to go to the racing ring. Britney Spears, when she was preparing to star in the film Trading Paint (http://www.traadingpaint.com) about riders, they allowed to cut 20 circles here in a real Naskarovskaya car, and we were offered chips. Not on a cloth, but red shows-cones on a huge concrete field. During the slalom, there is a feeling that the Audi R8 with a flat bottom with diffusers in the front of the front is literally attached to the road and obeys not the steering wheel and pedals, but to your thoughts.
There are 44 percent of the mass on the front axle, 56 on the rear. Depending on the conditions of movement through the viscous coupling, from 10 to 5 percent of the engine power. The mass is concentrated in the center of the car, so the moment of inertia with a sharp change in the direction of movement is much less. Plus, the rear differential of increased friction allows you to avoid sharp drift when the load changes. For example, when you turn from acceleration to braking in a bend. In the last circle, I turned off the ESP and specially twisted the steering wheel in a bend. The feed went ahead, but the behavior of the car was clear and, after a complete turn, almost on a patch was not difficult for me to return the car to the lane.
Toward the end of this year, such an option as ceramic brake discs will be available. We have 24 pistons press on four riveted disks. I tried to slow down somewhere from 180 km/h to the floor. Overloads are such that, as a Polish colleague figured out figuratively, snot flying to the brain. Although physically it should have been the other way around.
Jack. One Englishman said that the owner of the local night club or casino will surely ignore the R8 and buy RS4 Avant. For less money, he will receive the same engine. It will lose 0.3 seconds in acceleration to hundreds and 51 km/h in the maximum speed. But he will be able to take a bodygard, a couple of girls, several suitcases with money, coffee weapons ... And at the same time, he will not pay attention.
These are completely incorrect islanders. After all, Audi R8 (as they say in America-look -at-u-car) must be noticeable. From a distance, the R8 looks like a dable. But if you come and take a closer look! It is immediately obvious that the motor here is behind the seats - the cabin is clearly shifted forward, from which even a certain sense of imbalance arises. However, we will not forget that the design here should fully meet the functional requirements - how can a car that can reach 300 km/h should have excellent aerodynamics.
Huge anti -winged on the back did not fence. The modest spoiler itself is advanced at speeds above 100 km/h and removed at 35 km/h. You can fix it yourself by pressing the button on the central tunnel. As in the days of Tazio Nuvolari, four rings are not on the radiator grill, but on the panel above it. The gills of air intakes not only swallow oxygen to cool the engine, but also perform a stylistic function: they divide the car body into two parts - a salon and a motor compartment.
For the first time, the rear blocks of lamps with LEDs with a volumetric effect are installed on the car. Front pharmacists are also LEDs. And at the end of this year, headlights will also become LED, they will resemble daylight much stronger than Xenon and even halogen. Passers -by will fall into truly religious ecstasy.
V8 under glass - like in a window. The motor compartment can be ordered by carbon fiber cladding, and also highlighted with two white LED lamps. As poetically written in a press release: R8 owners will surely want to cast a last look at this pearl after they parked this car at night. And stingy male tears will build up their cheeks.
Audi R8 has as many as two trunk. First of all, this is the regiment behind the seats, where, according to the designers, two bags with golf clubs will fit. A strange thing, but the luggage containers of almost all expensive cars are turning this measure, as if their owners, except to drive balls on the grass, have no other classes. Another trunk is under the front hood. 90 liters of those very balls can be poured into it. Or put cash won in a casino. By eye - ten millions.

Text Dmitry Gronsky photo Audi AG
 
Audi R8
 
Gasoline engine, v8
Working volume (cubic cub) 4163
Power (L.S. at rpm) 420 at 7800
Moment (Nm at rpm) 430 at 4500-6000
The drive is complete
Gearbox 6-st. FUR. R-Tronic
Length/width/height (mm) 4431/1904/1252
Equipped mass (kg) 1560 1565
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 4.6
Fuel consumption (city/highway,
L/100 km) 22.1/10.2 20.4/9.6
Price in Moscow $ 170 261 $ 181 942
 

A source: "Autopilot"