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

[Theodore Chen]

paul,

the R8 might be faster than the viper GTS on a track, but it's almost too refined.  it's almost like driving a very nice and fast audi instead of being in a sports car.  when you're driving a viper, there's absolutely no doubt that you're driving a sports car.  one man's refinement is another man's isolation.  you've got a 930 turbo, so you should know what i mean.

an R8 with six-speed might make me feel differently.


it's not that i didn't like the R8.  i loved the car.  but the R8 didn't invoke the kind of chest beating antics that the viper does.

-t.



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From: "pkrasusky at ups.com" <pkrasusky at ups.com>
To: tedebearp at yahoo.com; t44tqtro at gmail.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 5:34:54 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR


 
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.