Coastal Traveler - Winter 2008 - (Page 13) coastal driver Audi R8 $109,000 from Audi Performance 420 hp @ 7,800 rpm 60 mph: 4.0 secs Top speed: 187 mph www.audiusa.com The R8 is the first exotic sports car from Audi, a German company with well-crafted, safe, even stylish cars that never handled or steered as well as BMWs. They have become famous for the quality of their interiors, with real aluminum accents set into soft, textured plastics. They were safe, noseheavy cars, with numb steering and four wheel drive. Those with a fetish for discreetness favored the brand over Mercedes or BMW. They were great until you pushed them. And right there, where a BMW sedan would Flamenco, the Audi just squealed its front tires in protest. So when Audi announced that it would take on the Porsche 911, and offer a usable sports car, Stuttgart didn’t seem worried. But Audi had a head start: its parent company, Volkswa- gen, also owns Lamborghini. Audi took the $201,000 Lamborghini Galardo, put in a slightly less powerful motor, a better quality interior and perhaps the best styling of any mid-engined supercar, and offered it for $109,000. Porsche, in a testament to Audi’s dynamic threat, purchased control of Volkswagen and is developing, along with Audi, a platform that will serve a new Boxster as well as a little brother to the R8. The R8 is described as less emotionally involving than the Porsche 911, a little more technical and clinical in its precision. But it is also more comfortable. This combination of Lamborghini bred exoticism and sedanish usability makes the R8 the best bargain since the Acura NSX. winter coastaltraveler 13 http://www.audiusa.com
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