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Originally Posted by .:bHd:.

Lol you dont get the point dude. Its should be easily distinguishable. If you see this car are you gonna go up close to the headlights to make sure its all LEDs so you'll know its the faster version. Look at the M5 compared to the 5 series. M3 to the 3 series. You can tell They're Ms from far away.

Ah I gotcha. Well I think one of the main points about the R8 is the relatively conservative design. I think this car will be distinguishable enough for me to tell right away, but I obsess over details so I dunno how that applies for everyone else. The blacked out rear, fat tail pipes, different wheels, larger intakes, and bright-ass headlights should provide enough cues from all angles.

[E90ice]

ok, it's very nice....but personally, cars that cost that much don't do anything for me. nice eye candy, but how many poeple on this planet can afford one at almost 200k?

[Year's_End]

LOL the ZR1 and GTR seem to have completely re-written the books for everyone's expectations when it comes to performance/price ratios. Dude, if this came out a year or two ago it would be a BARGAIN. Then again, it should be priced lower, maybe around 150-160.

[footie]

Few people here have championed the GTR as much as myself, but it's not got the looks or the sense of occasion that this R8 will have. The interior is truly special and a great place to sit in, next will be the noise (if the LP560/4 is anything to go by) and then there is the performance. The GTR now is only capable of 4.3s without LC and roll out, the R8 in capable of less than 3.9 because Audi are quoting for 62.5mph not 60mph and as always with German manufacturers these figure are on the conservative side, so with roll out it will probably be capable on a 3.5s 0-60mph run.

I agree that $180K is a lot but bare a thought to us poor Brits, we are going to have to pay over £120K and when the £ vs $ exchange rate returns to normal that will be the equivalent of over $220K.

P.S.
I love the wheels, they are more understated than Lamborghini use but they are special enough to be noticed and be different.

[Blake]

do want

[Deda]

Originally Posted by TheCyrax

Not feeling the wheels.

agree.but that is going to be a monster!

[TK-421]

Putting into perspective the competition that's in that price range...meh.

I'd take an F430 over that any day of the week.

[Greeney]

Holy shit!!! JG WANT.

[TheCyrax]

I don't really think they could pull off flaring the fenders on this car. Have you seen how WIDE it already is?

[MJC///M3]

nice!!

[.:bHd:.]

Originally Posted by TheCyrax

I don't really think they could pull off flaring the fenders on this car. Have you seen how WIDE it already is?

Yup the neighbors got one. Very nice car

[2K5 325i]

Originally Posted by footie

so with roll out it will probably be capable on a 3.5s 0-60mph run.

Disagree. If it could do 0-60 in 3.5, bet your ass they would be telling the world. Less than 3.9 is very impressive, but down to 3.5 would have to be recorded on miracle street.

Originally Posted by footie

P.S.
I love the wheels, they are more understated than Lamborghini use but they are special enough to be noticed and be different.

Agreed. ,
-Chris

[rzm3]

BMW, your move now, please...

[TK-421]

Originally Posted by rldzhao

BMW, your move now, please...

They may have already with the cancellation of the CSL

[marty_mcfly]

YES. they finally did it right. this is how the car should have been from the beginning. from the price to the engine!

[marty_mcfly]

Originally Posted by rldzhao

BMW, your move now, please...

oh they will... they will. just wait for the new M5/M6

[MJC///M3]

Originally Posted by marty_mcfly

oh they will... they will. just wait for the new M5/M6

+1

[rzm3]

Originally Posted by marty_mcfly

oh they will... they will. just wait for the new M5/M6

well... M5/6 aren't really in the same league, in terms of performance, price, and perceived value. Let's make a supercar now BMW!

[Year's_End]

Originally Posted by 2K5 325i

Disagree. If it could do 0-60 in 3.5, bet your ass they would be telling the world. Less than 3.9 is very impressive, but down to 3.5 would have to be recorded on miracle street.
-Chris

What do you mean. It's completely reasonable to suggest a 3.5s run with a rollout. It's not a true 0-60 run in a sense.

Originally Posted by marty_mcfly

oh they will... they will. just wait for the new M5/M6

The M5/M6 will always be compromised by weight and chassis limitations.

[2K5 325i]

Originally Posted by Bimmer Loyalist

What do you mean. It's completely reasonable to suggest a 3.5s run with a rollout. It's not a true 0-60 run in a sense.

The M5/M6 will always be compromised by weight and chassis limitations.

By "rollout" do you mean rolling start? Like 5-60?

<--- Confused,
-Chris

[AV9]

sickness! i love the r8

[Year's_End]

Originally Posted by 2K5 325i

By "rollout" do you mean rolling start? Like 5-60?

<--- Confused,
-Chris

Basically. It's like 3-4 to 60. C&D only publishes rollout times, which is why they always have such low 0-60 runs.

A Few Words About Rollout
The term "rollout" might not be familiar, but it comes from the drag strip. The arrangement of the timing beams for drag racing can be confusing, primarily because the 7-inch separation between the "pre-stage" and "stage" beams is not the source of rollout. The pre-stage beam, which has no effect on timing, is only there to help drivers creep up to the starting position. Rollout comes from the 1-foot separation (11.5 inches, actually) between the point where the leading edge of a front tire "rolls in" to the final staging beam — triggering the countdown to the green light that starts the race — and the point where the trailing edge of that tire "rolls out" of that same beam, the triggering event that starts the clock. A driver skilled at "shallow staging" can therefore get almost a free foot of untimed acceleration before the clock officially starts, effectively achieving a rolling-start velocity of 3-5 mph and shaving the 0.3 second it typically takes to cover that distance off his elapsed time (ET) in the process.

We believe the use of rollout for quarter-mile timed runs is appropriate, as this test is designed to represent an optimum drag strip run that a car owner can replicate at a drag strip. In the spirit of consistency, we also follow NHRA practice when calculating quarter-mile trap speed at the end of the run. So we publish the average speed over the final 66 feet of the quarter-mile run, even though our VBOX can tell us the instantaneous speed at the end of the 1,320-foot course, which is usually faster.

On the other hand, the use of rollout with 0-60 times is inappropriate in our view. For one, 0-60-mph acceleration is not a drag-racing convention. More important, it's called ZERO to 60 mph, not 3 or 4 mph to 60 mph, which is what you get when you apply rollout. While it is tempting to use rollout in order to make 0-60 acceleration look more impressive by 0.3 second, thereby hyping both the car's performance and the apparent skill of the test driver, we think it's cheating.

Nevertheless, some car magazines and some automobile manufacturers use rollout anyway — and fail to tell their customers. We've decided against this practice. We publish real 0-60 times instead. But in order to illuminate this issue and ensure we do justice to every car's real performance, we've begun publishing a clearly marked "with rollout" 0-60 time alongside the primary no-rollout 0-60 time so readers can see the effects of this bogus practice.