MOTOR Magazine Australia

AUDI R8 V8

REMEMBER 2006? Seems like a long time ago now, doesn’t it? Anyway, at the end of September that year Audi unveiled its new R8 supercar at the Paris Motor Show and, as our R8’s shape comes into focus through the morning fog, my first impression is just how up-to-date it looks in 2019. Its squat stance and purposeful bodywork were forward-thinking back then and despite the intervening 13 years, it still looks contemporary.

It’s cold outside, so I need very little excuse to clamber inside. Here the deception starts to unravel.

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