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oh fantastic allan... we also get a sample of this in israel.... it is not on roads yet though.. not in your country too rite ?

oh, in the left upper coprner of first pic.. there is a car that ... no i still dont have it and still not in position to have it.. i mean that car in the upper corner..

 

nice shots - go to see good things :-)

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Everything about this car suggests it should be great but Jeremy Clarkson wasn't very impressed. We'll just have to wait to see what the public think. Will they buy it or not ?

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But that's Clarkson

 

:o

 

The car has gotten good reviews over here

 

However, I am still not a big fan of the huge Audi grillwork of the current series of cars--it is just too over-the-top IMO

 

The R8 obviously has it in spades

 

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Having owned several quattros, I feel the front ends of the current models are uglier than hammered hockey puck and Audi needs to go back to the drawing board. But there is no question the R8 has presence, but the engine under glass copying the Ferrari doesn't do them proud either, IMO.

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I have been on the motorway and "approached" from behind by an R8. For 99.9% of people on the road, they know to just get out of the way...

 

IMHO, this white paint job does it no favours whatsoever. In the right colour, it's a fabulous looking car.

 

Given that we are at the end-game for cars like this, along with Range Rovers and other "gas-guzzlers", maybe they should be celebrated for more than they are. The end of an era. Dinosaurs, but fun while they lasted..

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I understand that the waiting list is considerable and there will be a huge premium if you want one quickly. I managed five minutes in the driver's seat of a prototype last Summer, although the car was full of telemetry gizmos it did seem very well put together. It looked pretty good in bright red and the carbon side panels can be specified in body colour, can't see the point of them as shown and I agree that the current crop of AUDI grilles are rather heavy-handed.

I'm told that Clarkson purposely broke part of the interior of a Bentley Continental GT which he had on test and also trashed the brakes after repeated emergency stops from 150 mph, he then complained about the brakes feeling soft afterwards! Nuff said.:o

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Allan,

Hope you don't mind me posting this here- it shows how the car looks better in a colour other than white! :)

 

I don't think it's a Leica shot, so I'll award myself another Yellow Card. :(

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Nice shot, Pete

 

You get a "light yellow"

 

:D

 

As long as we're bitching about current car design:

 

I can't stand this supposedly high-tech gray carbon-fiber/silvery titanium look on 99% of the cars that are using it

 

Yes, it looked splendid on the first TT; but now I see it on Acura's and Saturns...it has become the interior du jour and

 

I don't like it!!!

 

Rant over

 

:rolleyes:

 

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Car magazines in this country won't test drive cars for publication if they know that Top Gear have had them first.

 

I can't blame them

 

I'd not want a car after those guys had spun it into a meadow at high speed, or backed a tractor cart into it (a prototype, no less!)

 

They are literal vandals with the property IMO; but I wouldn't miss the show for the world!

 

:D

 

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Allan

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Andy - I am not so sure about the gas-guzzlers scenario. Cars have improved their consumptuion dramatically over the least 20 years. Now there are an ever growing number of scientists who say that Al Gore is completely wrong - surprise, surprise, - and that we are entering a period of global cooling when we shall need every ounce of man-made CO2 we can produce. See Prof.Robert carter :- YouTube - Climate Change - Is CO2 the cause? - Pt 1 of 4

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