Audi R8 V10 Performance Review

Male Speaker: This is where I like the car, the corners like this because you've got a sort of quite attacking -- [Video Playing] If you go into a hot as well you can sort of turn it a little bit early and it gives you just that little bit of extra comfort, soon or more coming through to at 100 miles an hour. Male Speaker: So do you prefer the rally championship. Male Speaker: Oh! Okay yes. I always drive an electronic, if I can, because basically like I want to change out, I'll go down to second gear, now if I've got to change oh! I've got one hand off the wheel but I've got both hands on the wheel, I have got total control because the turn shift up nowadays when you don't want to and you've got just that extra little bit of for me -- Put on this, I think you have got a better balance on the steering wheel than you have when you are trying to take one hand off, when your whole muscle balance is changing, and then the second thing is if you just say you don't want to go you just you know you stick in so there and it took a long, you don't have to dip the clutch and this sort of thing and then suddenly you decide to do, not may fault, if you decide you really do want to go and you just get it back into gear, now if you go. Male Speaker: It's much more convenient. Male Speaker: Yeah, I just think it's a better way to do it. Male Speaker: Yeah, it seems like you can get faster -- Male Speaker: Oh! definitely no question because look at my down shifts here, here the car is going to take a round with all the movement then -- there all the movement that a car is doing underneath me and that I am doing it, while I start changing down and I thought controlling then -- also try to you get control of the clutch and everything else which then is the way the axles work, I am letting it do it electronically which means it just much more consistent and better. Watch this. 95 miles per hour straight line, and that for me is the natural physics of the car. It's the weight distribution, it's the center of gravity. Obviously with the V10 engine over a V8 then you can have a change and that you have got more weight in there and if its position is not correct then you are in the situation on that where you are braking heavily then the rate of the car could wander a lot but that straight is doing everything in an absolute perfect manner. So here to lay that to the road, if you would have to make a heavy braking on the highway or whatever, you'll know that the car is stable. Also if you then you have to do it in the corner, you know that the rear wheels are following the front wheels, and you don't have suddenly some thing that is going to bite you. You can predict what is going to happen and I think that's a really important part for the -- Male Speaker: Perfect balance. Male Speaker: Yeah.