This'll make Derv Perv

I'm not going to look at the link, I can read the word, "Audi" in it.

Is this the big diesel donk for the aberration considered by some to be Audi's supercar?

"Wanted: new home for BFO diesel."

I'd have one

So would I, if they get the price right, 500bhp and 23mpg, add in Euro VI compliance and the biggest NACA duct I have ever seen and you have to be onto a winner. (I wonder how it will chip?)

that gives me wood :)

nigh on 190 mph 0-60 in 4 seconds and the proper smell on your hands when you fill up :)

But you can't pose in it - which is half of the point of a supercar - as it'll sound like a tractor and people will mock you.

That V12 sounds quite good.

I thing some of the better 6-cyl or more diesels sound pretty good.

But what more could you want than

12 cylinders 1000 torqueses 2 turbos the right fuel a spare tank full of fuel and no room for luggage?

Elder wrote of Audi R8 Diesel:

Roof doesn't go down.

Rubbish. QED.

Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate Douglas Payne, managed to produce the following words of wisdom

Shite off road an all.

4wd, just needs M&S rubber and it will be better than an X3.

Oh I don't know. There's the old adage about going over speed humps faster making them less bumpy, now I've done that before and it's clearly true - so by a process of complex deduction I reckon if you take an R8 offroad at really high speed it would waft along like a jag on fresh german tarmac.

Probably.

All that torque and 4wd should make it a fantastic towing car, keep the luggage in the caravan.

Nice theory. I know just the place and I will be happy to carry out the research if anyone here present is willing to lend me their Diesel R8 for a week or so.

If you're gonna tow, do it properly. Murcielago LP640, or a Viper :) Or, at a push, a Veyron.

Nah, they're shit and they'll only overheat.

Not got the torque have they? No good for a tow car. What you want is Charlie Broomfield's SD1. It's got a 27 litre Meteor tank engine (that's derived from the RR Merlin), and 1550 lbft. That'll get your caravan moving.

Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate Doki, managed to produce the following words of wisdom

Chap my Rangie was built for has a 1929 Rolls Royce which he's fitted a Merlin engine to.

Sounds awesome.

Not a Silver Ghost was it? Chap by the name of Shaun Patten, a Kiwi? JB