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Question is, will this car bring Dervy back to being a VAG fan.This'll make Derv Perv
Jan 16, 2008
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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
S**te 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 s*it 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
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