Posts Tagged ‘r8’

2008 Audi R8

Posted: March 22, 2008 by The Car Spy in Audi, General
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2008 Audi R8

Demand is hot for the R8 and the waiting lists just don’t seem to be getting any shorter. This is a well-specified Phantom Black example that is on order from the factory and the latest news is that it should be arriving at the end of May. Jump the queue and get an R8 in time for the summer! Click here for full details.

The Car is The Star

Posted: February 3, 2008 by The Car Spy in Audi, General
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An Audi R8 with balls!An Audi R8 with balls!An Audi R8 with balls!An Audi R8 with balls!

Funny how some film directors either get it dead right or dead wrong when it comes to casting the part for ‘car of the future’ for their latest mega-buck movie.

Take the car featured in Alex Proyas’s ‘I,Robot’ for instance. Audi were given a brief to provide a super-cool sports car for super-cool Will Smith and along came the RSQ. The designers at Audi quite likely had this car doodled for some time before the film but happily a bit of product placement would do wonders for the up-and-coming R8 that the world has gone gaga for today. There had to be some adjustments in the design of course because no self-respecting auto artist would include wheels on a car that was to be driven on the ‘roads’ of 2035. It seems that we will be riding along on balls instead. Hmmm.

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