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The WOW! factor: Detroit News Audi R8 Review
Ria was ready. She had spent two weeks being chauffeured around metropolitan Manila in a van. That was hell for a car nut passionately in love with driving, a suffering unrelieved by Manila's traffic congestion.

When she returned to the United States, Ria Manglapus was ready to drive something new, including the big red Nissan Titan crew cab pickup truck that greeted her on her arrival at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

The truck was a necessary ruse. This column's subject, the 2008 Audi R8 sports coupe, was parked in my driveway. You can't load two week's worth of overseas vacation luggage into a sports coupe, especially not in one with an itty-bitty (3.5 cubic feet) cargo bay in its nose.

We deposited Ria's luggage at her house and returned to my place to pick up the all-wheel-drive, 420-horsepower R8 coupe -- Audi's bid to grab sales from Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche in the exotic-car wars still raging around the pockets of the super-rich.

Ria, my associate in vehicle evaluations, stared at the silver, long-nosed coupe. It stared back at her. From her mouth came a crescendo of "wows," as in: "Wow! Wow!! Wow!!!" And in a fourth "Wow!!!!" she was gone.

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The WOW! factor: Detroit News Audi R8 Review



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Treeman888Treeman888 - 8/24/2007 12:19:18 PM
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This was posted already. The R8 is a fabulous car.

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S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 8/24/2007 2:44:24 PMView My AgentSpace
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This is my favorite car. Period. So hard to resist!

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Auto_expertAuto_expert - 8/24/2007 5:00:44 PM
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That's funny. I don't think they'll ever "get" it and even if they did, it would probably be too costly for them to implement (and keep their practical/pragmatic image). It's not their bag, so to speak.

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S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 8/24/2007 11:39:00 PMView My AgentSpace
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I would be blown away if the LF-A matched the R8's driving appeal. I know it will be faster, but that's nothing. The R8 V10 will come along and demolish it if it can only go in a straight line.

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Will_Will_ - 8/26/2007 2:27:56 PM
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Why a Toyota/Lexus bash was needed here of all places will never cease to amaze me.

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S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 8/26/2007 11:57:30 PMView My AgentSpace
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Please, enlighten me. Tell me where I bashed Toylex in my post. I did not, once. Read carefully.

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golfer38golfer38 - 8/25/2007 11:17:00 AMView My AgentSpace
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The only way this car-might-be better is when they put the V10 in it. Otherwise this car IS perfect.

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1evlaudi1evlaudi - 8/25/2007 12:06:57 PMView My AgentSpace
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Yes, this is an amazing car but it is not perfect.
If it had the S-tronic (DSG), than it would be perfect.

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S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 8/25/2007 7:37:59 PMView My AgentSpace
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R8 + DSG + V10 = best car ever produced


S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 8/25/2007 7:38:39 PMView My AgentSpace
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And the incredible thing is, that actually might happen. Hopefully they can engineer the transmission to cope with 500+hp...
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