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

[Michael Lardizabal]

I kinda agree w/ Ted's GTS over R8 statement.
 
Having driven a non-GTS Viper its got a lot of grass-roots old skewl,seat o' the pants type
feel. Very involved to drive it. About the only thing I didn't care for is the humoungus hood view from the drivers seat...but thats just me. I like to see my road and corner line clearly.
I'm sure the GTS is a whole different monkey compared to the early Vip I drove.
 
Not having yet driven an R8 ..., I have driven both an A5 and S5. I came away a wee bit underwhelmed ,and I just can't imagine the R8 will be that much different, but will reserve judgement until I do.
 

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:

From: pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR
To: tedebearp at yahoo.com, t44tqtro at gmail.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 8:34 AM

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.
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