![]() That car feels like it’s propelled by a runaway nuclear reaction, but here the power is doled out so smoothly and in such a linear way that you sometimes hit speeds you didn’t mean to because you didn’t know you were going that hard. ![]() Oddly enough, the R8 doesn’t actually feel explosively fast, at least not in the way a Ferrari 488 GTB does. In that case, prepare to read this twice, in case you think your eyes are fooling you: 3.6 (the number of seconds the R8 Spyder takes to hit 100km/h), and 318 (what you’ll reach in km/h if you keep the hammer down long enough). It’s nicely choreographed and neatly packaged, too, as this little diagram shows.Īll well and good, but the numbers we want most have to do with speed… ![]() That can be done at up to 50km/h, courtesy of some electro-hydraulic origami. But the various layers that make up the roof weigh just 44kg altogether.Īnyway, the number you really wanted to know is 20: that’s how many seconds it takes for the roof to disappear. It’s honestly hard to tell sometimes that the top is made of fabric and not metal, the way it insulates the Spyder’s cabin from the outside world so well. You’d think so, given how the car feels like a coupe when it’s overhead. It might be a proper supercar, but the R8 Spyder has none of the brittleness or fragility of one. Don’t ask us where all the weight is from, but a big chunk must have gone into making the cabin feel so solid. It’s 36mm wider than before (and is now a girthy 1.94m), but also a bit shorter. And anyway, it’s not that light, at 1,720kg. This is a car more about muscle than leanness, in other words. Too bad this is all you get to see of itĥ40hp is what it has to give, and in a nice bit of symmetry there’s 540Nm of peak torque. Instead, it gets its power from revs, and spins to a frantic 8,700rpm. The V10 engine is a monster but purely from the old school: a dry-sumped, 5.2-litre slugger without a turbo in sight. Come to think of it, it’s a supercar in its own right. Bare-knuckle, knock-down supercar bully is more like it. It’s 50 percent stiffer and does feel super rigid, yet the body weighs about as much as two tubby men (208kg if you’re a stickler for details). Its basic frame is made of aluminium and roughly 25kg of carbon fibre. The R8 Coupe underwent a ground-up revamp last year and this shares its bones, so there’s a whole new structure underneath. That doesn’t mean it falls short of delivering what a supercar does, however. It’s handbuilt in a facility where 500 people focus on bolting Audi’s fastest cars together, and it’s priced just short of what a genuine supercar would cost you. SINGAPORE - There are Audis, and then there’s this, the Audi R8 Spyder. All in, the price of the vehicle was up well over $200,000, and Tim’s dad was going to deliver a cheque upon arrival.The new Audi R8 Spyder takes a big leap forward from its predecessor, but can it tempt the rich from more exotic brands? Tim even checked the $6k option for carbon fiber light-up sills. Tim didn’t even want to test drive the vehicle, as his dad had one already.Īfter all was said and done, the order sheet listed off an R8 V10 Spyder with a 6-speed manual in Suzuka Grey with a red roof and black/red diamond stitched interior. In what seemed like the easiest sale of the century, the young man (named Tim) walked through the order guide with CB, checking off all of the options that would make any car enthusiast drool. In 2015, the poster “corporalb00bs” (let’s call him CB) had just started working at an Audi dealership in Canada, when a young man who couldn’t have been more than 20 years of age rocked up in a Mercedes-Benz C63 hoping to buy a supercar. The story was posted to the r/Cars subreddit, where it currently has over 1400 upvotes and 266 comments.
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