{"id":26132,"date":"2022-06-02T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=26132"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:30:41","slug":"open-road-audi-r8-v10-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2022\/06\/02\/open-road-audi-r8-v10-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Road: Audi R8 V10 Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Audi R8 holds its cards close to its chest. It\u2019s unlike many modern-day supercars, choosing to give nothing away rather than shouting its credentials. The R8 borrows its V10 engine from the Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n, but this German machine is an all-rounder, and could arguably be described as subtle despite BEAST having a \u201cVegas Yellow\u201d specification on hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Road has enabled BEAST\u2019s petrolheads to test a number of supercars. The McLaren 720S Spider was loveable yet untamable, the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera was the perfect all-rounder for everyday use, and the Maserati MC20 was pure driving bliss. With this at the back of the mind, it\u2019s hard to not compare supercars with one another, especially when most are priced at around $200,000 USD. Couple that with the R8 now being over 16 years old and it sharing much of its mechanics with the Hurac\u00e1n, and it\u2019s easy to draw comparisons or look for differences in the R8 \u2013 for good or bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, the R8\u2019s \u201cVegas Yellow\u201d paint job and screaming V10 engine also excites your inner kid. At first glance, the R8 is capable of stimulating the senses despite its lack of quintessential supercar extras \u2013 there are no showboating doors or overcompensating wings here. Instead, with it being a \u201csensible Audi,\u201d you get something closer to a Porsche 911 Turbo competitor, a car that doesn\u2019t scream nor shout simply. It doesn\u2019t need to do either, because it is undoubtedly a good car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Audi R8 has one of the greatest engines, and subsequently one of the greatest soundtracks, ever featured in a car. It\u2019s music to any car lover\u2019s ears, unadulterated thanks to its lack of turbos or faux noise enhancers. Noise is made across the entirety of the rev range, and the soundtrack switches from a deep gargle to a high-pitched scream, encouraging you to always try and find its limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This brings us on to the crux of this car. Somehow, there is no limit to what the Audi R8 is capable of. Thanks to Audi\u2019s class-leading proprietary Quattro all-wheel-drive system, grip is found in abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it was almost too much grip for a supercar, as the contrast between that V10 engine that wants to be pushed and a car that doesn\u2019t ever want to let go can be a bit conflicting. In many ways, this is a good thing, especially if you\u2019ve never driven something as powerful as this before. Safety support systems are figuring out thousands of equations every second to keep you planted on the road and it\u2019s impressive that anyone could get into the R8 and drive it relatively hard and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as autophiles know, grip should be something that can be teased, tested and played with. Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear shouting \u201cpowerrr!\u201d as he pulled off a smoke-pluming powerslide was the highlight of many a child\u2019s Sunday evening, and that nostalgic vision remains. While we can\u2019t do this on public roads, it does not mean that the car won\u2019t occasionally try to slide out of corners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of this and the steering feel that made driving the R8 almost too easy, this car is ironically the antithesis of what a supercar should be. Just because it can hit 62 MPH in three seconds and go onto 206 MPH doesn\u2019t make the R8 a supercar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is it then? It takes further investigating, and it took BEAST another stab at the car to really understand what the car is and who it is for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting early in the morning to avoid traffic, we fired the car\u2019s heart into life and set off for the seaside via country roads. This tested the R8 in all settings, from the stress of city driving to opening it up on the long straights of the motorway, or chucking it around a corner without all those overbearing safety systems getting in the way of the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here the car started to come alive. You had to have all of the systems turned off and the car in its most focused setting, typically reserved for track driving, to extract all of the R8\u2019s potential. And potential it has, as once this had been initiated the car became a different creature entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No longer did it feel like the car was doing all the work for you. Now, you had almost all control over the car\u2019s characteristics. Feeling it feed back authenticity to the driver through the handling as it responded to minuscule adjustments, thus making you want to drive it harder upon each surprising change of events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Audi R8\u2019s peak, but definitely not its happy place. It\u2019s much more comfortable \u2013 literally and metaphorically \u2013 when it is in control. But by all means, don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to not work alongside you as an extension of your right foot and arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sum up the R8: it\u2019s not as simple as another clich\u00e9 case of Jekyll and Hyde. 99% of the time the car is a great grand tourer, with a big enough front trunk to hold a weekend\u2019s worth of luggage and economy ratings that won\u2019t eat into your life savings (although, if you have a $200,000 USD car you\u2019re probably not concerned about the petrol crisis). It\u2019s comfortable and spacious inside with great amounts of visibility, and with it being an Audi, it comes with all of the latest and greatest mod-cons, each of which is optimized for the driver hence its lack of a core infotainment screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Audi R8 is all about finding the 1%. That is when you don\u2019t just fall in love with the car for everything it can do, it\u2019s when you fully understand it and build a trusting, harmonious rapport with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Audi R8 holds its cards close to its chest. It\u2019s unlike many modern-day supercars, choosing to give nothing away rather than shouting its credentials. The R8 borrows its V10 engine from the Lamborghini Hurac\u00e1n, but this German machine is an all-rounder, and could arguably be described as subtle despite BEAST having a \u201cVegas Yellow\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[31,401],"class_list":["post-26132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-audi","tag-r8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26149,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26132\/revisions\/26149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}