[s-cars] LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

Wait a sec - you're saying you'd rather have a GTS than an R8???  While I've not yet had the priv. of piloting either yet (gRrrrrrrrrrr!), I'm having trouble subscribing to that theory sorry.

My GT2 bud had a GTS and his reviews on it - despite it being 'fast' (until like 4,800) - were abysmal from a dynamics standpoint.  And everything said about the R8 is stellar.

I'll just have to find out for mesself then 8-).

I hear what you're saying Teddy about the new cars being too videogamesque, but I think your analogy is in the extreme.

-Paul

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From: Theodore Chen [mailto:tedebearp at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:53 PM
To: Taka Mizutani; Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR

what, the audi R8 isn't on that list?

i drove my friend's new R8 with R-tronic a few weeks ago.  i drove it hard, at my friend's urging, but he was the one JNR-ing it, not me.  can you say 140 mph on the 405 in LA?  to be honest, i loved the R8, but i enjoyed my other friend's viper GTS more.  i feel that modern cars are somewhat sterile.  they are fast and handle very well, but they are more isolated.  ABS, traction control, stability control, active steering, dynamic roll control, torque vectoring, etc. - modern motoring is becoming more like driving a video game.

you guys may think me nuts, but i just passed on a friend's immaculate '03 jaguar s-type r with 64k miles for $14k.  i just couldn't see myself enjoying driving it as much as the UrS4.

-t.