Audi R8 Test Drive Gone Bad

Why have their been so many accidents involving these cars. From the A8 to the GTR. Whats the real problem!?!

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 10:24:00 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -4   

It amazes me with the sure footing of the AWD of this car why it's fairly easy to lose control like this, this is almost Porsche territory.

http://www.floridacarclub.com/t12191-r8-loses-control-amp-hits-wall.html

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 10:31:02 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

Good thing this didn't happen in Florida; the 'gators' would be circling.

AAAAAAH, rich guy in Audi, FOOD :-)

— nybimmer (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 10:33:23 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 9   

Looks like he was trying to pull a Dukes of Hazzard jump over that pond!

— BHump (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 10:33:39 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

hahahahahaha!!

— carguy68 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 11:30:52 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

you don't believe that the R8 handles poorly your damn self.

— 1dott8 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 11:46:41 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

Well, one of my friends 1995 VW Golf kept up with a Bugatti on some backroads. And he can drive and I've seen him do it so I can believe that. I swear that this site has more idiot's per capita than any other site on the web.

— bintintin (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 12:05:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 8   

Michael Taylor

1) Troll

or

2) Automotive knowledge of a sack of hair.


Pick one!

— theoptimisticpessimist (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 1:03:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 13   

MichaelTaylor - come on now, you've got to be kidding me. i have a slightly modded 1.8t and there is no way an es whatever will be able to beat me.

— 1dott8 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 1:05:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

"One of my friends said his ES330 kept up with an R8 on some backroads. Now this guy can drive and I've seen him do it so I can believe that."

Clearly MT is taking a stab at comedy. A Joke like this one deserves +50 boost.

— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 4:13:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

MichaelTaylor , Nissan Sentra and Honda Civics are better car then ES330

— pchera01 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 4:32:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

MichaelTaylor

I appreciate your attempt at humor. I have a friend who drives a 2007 Dodge Viper SRT-10. I have to listen to him all the time about how his car is faster than my M3. I joke with him, because I am the better driver, that we could race with me in the M3 and him in the Viper and I would win.

I then tell him we could swap cars and race again, and again I would win.

Most of the time a good driver can go faster in a slower car than a bad driver in a faster car.

I like the humor in place of some of the kool-aid induced comments you normally make, you know the ones, "...a Lexus LS600h is faster than an R8 and Jeremy Clarkson said that the cup holders on the SC430 are higher quality than those in a BMW 750iL so therefore the ES350 is the superior luxury car to the MB S550 making the RX350 the best SUV ever, especially in front wheel drive only, because it beats the Range Rover in a rolling start acceleration test..."

You get the idea, a little stab at some humor of my own.

-00J

— Agent00J (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 4:44:38 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Some people just have too much money to throw away. He would've been better off giving the money spent on this car to charity than driving it briefly into a swamp.

— PlanB (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 11:39:22 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Like all the posers on this site,they can't drive.

— truthpursuit (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 11:46:22 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

Even the best performing car can't overcome a person's unfamiliarity with the car, or their stupidity for that matter.

— answer (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 1:29:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The fifth picture in the linked article shows the bumpy road on which the driver went way too fast.

— chewy (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 3:41:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

When you check out the pictures in the article, you see there are skid marks for a long distance that to across the road over a grass verge over the 2 way cycle path and on into the canal. I would like to hear the view of an expert on traffic accidents, maybe he way avioding a rabbit? looks like a freak sort of accident, but VERY Expensive.

— steve27t (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 4:41:40 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

At least it was a soft landing.

— no1listensanyway (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 5:01:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Hahaha...IDIOT. Kind of reminds me of the Enzo crash caused by yours truly Eddie Griffin.

— Type707 (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 5:06:00 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

I bet he told the police: "the sales rep told me to gun it, i swear!"

Experienced or not, i dont think a salesman would care about what you can or cant do, its all about the commission. Well some of them are like that...

— Alec (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 7:27:29 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

This dude choose the perfect color, it blends in nicely with the swamp... heck, it's almost destiny like.

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 8/20/2008 8:31:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2