[V8] The R8 super car

[Roger M. Woodbury]

I haven't seen the newest TT "in the flesh" as yet, but unless it looks an
awfully lot better than the first version that looked like a 1947 vintage
Hoover vacuum cleaner without the wand and the bag, then I'll pass on that
one, too.

I like the lines of real cars, not things that look like mobile machine
bunkers with hunched over roofs and tiny windows.  And it matters not a lot
who makes them.  

Probably am showing my age.   I like the idea of wide open windshields and
side windows that can actually be useful for seeing out.  The Audi Q7 may
well be a great riding and handling car, but all that proves is that Audi
can make an overweight, oversized brick handle and ride very well.  It will
still be long on bulk and short of both "sport" and "utility".  

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Rautenberg [mailto:i.rautenberg at waratap.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:02 AM
To: Roger M. Woodbury; v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] The R8 super car

Roger,

To each his own, I guess.  I wasn't a fan of the Q7 'til I saw it and rode
in it.  The lines work a lot better than they look in a magazine.  And the
handling?  Simply amazing.  I could go on, but it's a moot point to me as my
fundage wouldn't allow either.  So I gather you don't like the lines of the
new tt, either?  Roger, I think you're showing your age ;~)

Ingo (mit enough V8's right now)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:12 AM
Subject: [V8] The R8 super car


> I was looking at Autoweek on line this morning, and read through the
article
> about the new Audi R8 super car.
>
> Yesterday, I took the 928 out of the garage and drove it the five miles to
> the car wash to wash off the winter's garage grime....
>
> Man!  Is that Audi Supercar thingy UGLY.  It may be "super", it may be
very,
> very fast, and very very expensive, but looking at my 928 in the sunshine,
> and then looking at Ingolstadt's latest fugly iteration of an automobile,
> I'll keep the 928.
>
> Audi is now two for two in the past month.  There is the Q7, which is big,
> ugly and expensive, and then there is the R8 which is coming, and which is
> all of that.
>
> My '91 20 Valve Avant is handsome...from a distance of about twenty feet
> when you can't see all the bumps and bruises from its 150,000 miles, and
the
> V8 is an extremely handsome, if totally unpretentious looking car,
> especially when freshly painted and spruced up with 16" wheels.  And of
> course, the Porsche 928 in the S4 and later variants is beautiful:  the
> lines flow from front to rear, and only the rear spoiler sort of marrs the
> profile....
>
> But now, we seem to be getting cars out of Germany that are trying awfully
> hard to be Japanese-looking.  The only word that I can think of to
describe
> them is the old Japanese word:  FUGLY.  (At least I think it was a
Japanese
> word....)
>
> Roger
>
>
>
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