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USED BUT USER-FRIENDLY; WE BEGIN A SECOND-OWNER YEAR WITH AN AUDI R8.(NEWS)
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
this should prove interesting. The latest addition to our long-term test fleet is a used quasi-exotic sports car that will serve deep into the cold and snowy Michigan winter. Ideal, eh? At least the Audi R8 is all-wheel drive, and the Pirelli folks had some winter tires, so we can test the proposition that this is a year-round sports car.
Wait a sec, did he say a used car? Yes. Audi dropped the R8 at our offices with almost 14,000 miles on the odo, all accumulated during media reviews of the new model. So it had been flogged by a mix of drive-it-like-you-stole-it performance testers and newspaper business writers barely qualified to operate a car with a clutch.
AutoWeek usually requires that any vehicle entering our long-term test cycle be as fresh off the assembly line as possible. The aim is to replicate the ownership experienceconsumers don't get a car that has done its break-in miles while a team of engineers polishes out any rough edges, so we don't want that, either.
This time? Well, it's not just broken-in, it's genuinely been used. But let's not pretend here: If we had insisted on an all-new R8, Audi's answer would have been no. So, we asked ourselves, is there any point in sampling a high-mileage example? Previous high-performance two-seaters we've had didn't do many miles. Here was our first opportunity to see what it might be like to be the second owner of such a car, in plenty of time to tell potential second owners what to expect.
Besides, isn't the R8 inspired by Audi's Le Mans endurance racer? Let's see how well it endures. OK, we bent our own rules. You wouldn't?
Suitably enough, our West Coast team tested this very carwith its nearly 14,000 milesat the track. Although the second-gear synchro seemed worn, it hit 60 mph in 4.5 seconds on its best run, and you could count on the 420-hp V8 and the six-speed manual to deliver 5 seconds routinely. The quarter-mile pole came up in 13.24 seconds at 105.1 mph, and it circled our skidpad at 0.95 g. It took 108 feet to stop from 60 mph, 193 feet from 80 mph.
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