[s-cars] S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 61, Issue 43

[M Pederson]

Well, FWLIW I seem to have acquired an R8 (the manual tranny version) back
in May.  Without trying to take sides one way or another, except for the
troglodyte who's made at R&T for their articles not being up to Krasusky
standards :-), and if I'm recalling the publication correctly, a month or
two back they re-did their "Best Track Cars" issue, this time with Randy
Pobst at the wheel ~> ahhhh never mind the troglodyte competition, it was in
the August issue of MotorTrend, http://tinyurl.com/67853u  

In any event, the article covered ten (10) cars, including both the Viper
ACR (if raw is what you really want, at least one or two steps up on the GTS
I believe) and the Audi R8.  If it's any conciliation to either of you, I
think you're both right, ..... except you know in Randy's opinion, with a
time of "only" 1:40.92 the R8 (page 3) won notwithstanding the Viper's
putting in a lap 5.5 seconds faster at 1:35.117

As Randy's (& I'm sure Paul's) first High School GF told him, "Hey Boys,
speed ain't everything."   :-)

That said, I have to agree there can be a certain "numbness" involved ....
probably those Altoids Paul's always going on about  :-)  That said, one
thing one can seem to do with almost impunity in the R8 is pile back on
power almost anywhere, anytime  It kind of makes you feel you should have
never slowed down for the corner that much in the first place ... Weird

Cheers, Mikee

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR (Taka Mizutani)
   
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:39:47 -0500 From: "Taka Mizutani" 

I'm not Teddy- but unless R8s have dropped significantly in price, I'd
rather have a used Gallardo .{snips}... Except for maybe the GT3, none of
the new sports cars really has that rawness that some of the older cars
have. Okay, maybe the F430 Scuderia as
well..... Your 930 is the perfect example of what I'm talking about.

Taka

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:34 AM, <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
>
> 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 .....

>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Theodore Chen [mailto:tedebearp at yahoo.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:53 PM
>
>  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.
>