Great Audi R8 video

[Brett Dikeman]

On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Ti Kan wrote:

> http://www.audiusa.com/audi/us/en2/new_cars/R8.html
>
> Click on "The R8 Microsite" link to go to the video.  Flash player
> required.

I gave up after about 5 minutes of staring at five different  
"preloading...." messages and the video pausing about 5 seconds in,  
until I realized I saw it weeks ago.

It's a big "meh" to me; the movie itself is brassy annoying music, de- 
saturated video, and the same old stop-and-pan-with-text-zooming-by  
style we've seen a thousand times before from Audi.  Yawn.  The R10  
video was about a thousand times better; even the cheesy "Vorsprung"  
video with Ghandi and Muhammad Ali was better than this.  Shame we  
never got the ability to grab a high-resolution version of the R10  
video...

About the only thing I find worthy of comment about the new R10 is  
that it appears to feature real knobs and buttons for stuff.

Brett