It was a standard V10. Pretty impressed to say the least… Drove it for 30ish minutes, unfortunately it was at 5-530pm so a decent amount of traffic. I did a few passes on the highway, some city driving and some sitting in traffic along with a couple on ramps. Very compliant and comfortable car, yet handles so well… Few thoughts…
Acceleration - Pretty impressive. Did several slow roll pulls, a semi launch, and couple 50-130+ pulls… From a roll as long as you’re in the right gear it hits hard and pulls and pulls and pulls hard. I’m used to low 7K redlines in my cars, so I shortshifted a few times. Lol I can’t wait to feel the better gearing in the plus… Still very happy with how it performed, it’s a very low 11 / high 10 second car. I can see the + running 10.6 for sure… From a dig and I didn’t use launch control it’s probably right there with my S4 till 40-50 and then would just walk it…
Handling - Limited opportunity here but it ate the on ramps under fairly hard acceleration… Felt more rear wheel drive bias but the mid engine layout is not something I’m used to either…
Interior - very nice interior but honestly I was a little underwhelmed. Seats were great and loved the feel. Didn’t like the gray color the car had. The matte/dull CF doesn’t do it for me but it’s preference. I do like the virtual cockpit… Didn’t even turn on the radio! lol
Ride - Car was very comfortable over bumps and on average roads while handling like a champ. It would be easy to daily this car… Drove mostly in dynamic. Steering was very tight, compliant and just felt precise, was very impressed. Very Porsche like!
Looks - I love it. I didn’t like the silver “blades”… The ara blue was nice but I will go yellow, black, or red especially with a sepang TTRS already. Love the more angular look of the car and I don’t think the front looks bad like most others. We got a ton of looks, several thumbs up, and a dude wanting to talk at a light so the car does somewhat stand out, which I don’t really like but whatever…
Basically, trying to decide if I holdout for the V6TT or order a v10 or v10+. I’ve reached out to APR to see if they will be offering a tune on the v10 to take it to the power levels of the plus as if they do I’ll save the 29K and get the V10 as I could care less about the cf mirrors and other bits or the ceramic brakes. Gearing is a little taller from 3-7 on the v10 but I can live with it. Waiting to see what kind of discount the dealer is willing to give me on a ordered car and will go from there…
V10 build:
https://www.audiusa.com/models/audi-r8/2017/configurator#50710-4S35AE_U_2-2017/H4sIAAAAAAAAAHWMywqAIBBFfyVwPTCTmkErJe2BDlTUok0_4sdX5Lazu4fLSe6AtYUayWSNhhDUJrX1137Vn8XdQsMMZnQwM7BcYKFepNVPEyqRomfi9tm2VziIQKqKFEkE3VQvM-e_Tz67orqSyzdpduSTkAAAAA
V10+ build:
https://www.audiusa.com/models/audi-r8/2017/configurator#50710-4S35BE_U_1-2017/H4sIAAAAAAAAAF2NwQqDMBBEf0XY88JuTYzFk6EbGkgWTdBDL_5IPr4ttRQ6l4Hh8Sb7HcuIF2LXLDkmNLW3Xo7t4M-ay3wzViAXiZEM5FTlutdXi7KOQNuM_RJwUEV39ygRlVZczQKBTZc4MQQ7dO9I_On-NF-2PaYTmc7H9gTr1HwJpAAAAA
Few pics… You can see my macan turbo in the background on the last one… lol
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