The Perfect First Supercar? Audi R8 V8 MANUAL Review - With Expert Buying Advice!

Hello everyone, today for the next installment of my affordable dream car series, we have something that is quite tempting: it was the car of choice for billionaire philanthropist and playboy Tony Stark, but today you could have one for the same price as our Golf GTI which, of course, we are talking about. the Audi r8

first

ly a big thank you to the lovely Andrew aka voice magician who is currently next to me in the passenger lavatory because this is his car and in the second half of this

review

he will provide insight very practical yes Do you think the RA is a car for you?

The R8 has an image problem because I don't think it ever knew what they wanted it to be. Is it a sports car? Is it a

supercar

for me? I've always seen it. the RA as a

supercar

, but I have seen it as the most accessible and simple supercar. Now many people immediately dismissed it due to the original engine having the 4.2 liter v8, an extremely close relative of the lump found in the RS4 of the time with only a few modifications, namely the crankcase lubrication system. dry that I had in this particular car, it makes 430 horsepower, although by modern standards, including modern r8 standards, that's not much, you have to remember that just a few years before this car came out, Ferrari was selling the 360 with around 400 and a 911 Carrera S at the time was around 380, as was the Aston Martin v8 Vantage, these were also quite a bit cheaper when they came out than they are now.

I could buy one for a little over $80k if memory serves, while the modern one starts with a 1 and has a few notes after it. I never originally fell in love with the R8, but over time its appeal has really grown. It helps when When we are presented with an example as immaculate as this one, it is a credit to its owner and the key is that it offers the experience of a supercar; There's no easy way to replicate the special feeling you get from a mid-engine vehicle like this. It's amazing to be in this and time has actually been very kind to it.

Now there are a few things I don't like about the car, which can apply to many others I've driven, including that there should be options. of material for some of the interior fit and finish and the fact that they used basically every part in the Audi parts bin for the interior, the good news of course is that they are certainly high quality parts, but if already had them for example rs3 and then you got into one of these you may have been a little disappointed but if you can get over it it certainly is a very nice car to drive and this Magna Ride equipped example is absolutely beautiful too , it's been a long time since I've driven a v8 r8, all the examples I've driven recently were V tens and I've also been lucky enough to drive some very special examples including the GT and LM x, but there's something that none of those Two cars that have this glorious

manual

gearbox in their

first

attempt at the mid-engined supercar have already achieved one of the things that has often been a hallmark of things like Ferrari: gear shifting, this is absolutely wonderful and, as far as I know. in question deserves to go down in history as one of the best gear changes ever installed in a car it is spectacular even for driving at modest speeds it has a wonderful weight it is very precise it does not produce the same click delay as a Ferrari, but the It is pleasant Hold the knob over the giggles and it's simply the highlight of this car.

It's such a strange thing to wear an Audi badge because when you have a high-revving naturally aspirated engine and a

manual

gearbox, these aren't things. what people commonly associate with Audi what people most readily associate with that famous foreign German brand is all-wheel drive and this car has what in these early cars is a proper torque system which later became a Haldex for the marks two cars at once. maybe I'm also a little cruel to my memory of the v8's pace because when I first drove one I didn't think it was that fast, but it's actually zippy enough and has plenty of traction from below because that v8 engine, although it reaches over 8,000, it is actually very little square, so it sounds quite a lot compared to, for example, the BMW v8.

When on the e92 m3, the steering also lacks some texture and finesse, but it has a good weight to it and I think it's actually superior to the car. who kept just going down roads like this, which I have to thank my passenger for choosing because they are brilliant, it feels amazing if you want to buy this as an event, oh you could do a lot worse, it's a Supergirl, it's 911 for a car sports. The 911 Turbo is not a supercar, this is a supercar, if you want it faster get the v10. There are a lot of people here who love the v8 and it's probably a good time to start talking to the guy who decided to buy this one. because if you're looking for some decent

advice

on this and other cars from the Volkswagen Group and here you are to talk, welcome to the channel Andrew, hello everyone, tell us about the basic specifications of this cast, people know what we're looking at, okay? it's a 2014 car, it's a very late brand, the new car came out in 2015 so it's a facelifted model, the facelift was from 2012 and to be honest there weren't many changes but the changes they made were quite important, so we have You have slightly better entertainment, you can connect your phone, which is a very important thing nowadays.

Externally you have a different style of wheel and you have more modern lighting so at the rear we have LED and at the front we have full LED headlights so it looks good basically the lighting matches the rest of the car now and it seems like it's my favorite R8 looks-wise and I think when you put it on social media, people generally prefer the brand because it was the Originally, everything that followed is basically the same car, so did you look specifically a V8? Well, that's an interesting story because Audi lent me a V10 when I was scheduled to take us for a weekend.

Audi Driver International and the amount of fuel that was burned made me realize that a V8 might be more than enough for my needs. It was a great car, the V10, but I didn't think the cost of ownership would really be justified when it. I came up with what you gave about the v8 so yeah I guess on that basis I was quite happy with a VA and it also suited my budget because V Thames was still a bit bigger so you sorted out a face lift specifically, yes, I did mostly. Since they weren't really that much more expensive, I bought this car at the end of December 2018 and that was a pretty big deal too.

A good winter buy with any type of performance car is the time to do it and I went to Scotland for this car at the time, the smart v8s, the first ones were in the 30s range, low 40s and this was 50,000, it's actually the highest rated, 452, so the gentleman for a car that was a 2014 compared to a 2007 in 2018, I mean, that's like not even half its age was a no-brainer really when the wash came out. face in 2012 and both v10 and VA were refreshed at the same time they did yes for the rhg ver it was the last special edition of its kind on the Mach 1 platform and then you got the S tronic with the facelift that was really a great thing because in general they are very similar, the S tronic gearbox replaced the art, give up if you want and also that was the night and day difference that the manual had. on, but when the S tronic came out sales dropped massively, so the electronics are the single-clutch gearbox that Audi used, which is essentially the Lamborghini, a gear system, but the repackaged S tronic was the dual clutch when the cars came out, they basically said they have to put a dual clutch in it because there is no dual clutch that would actually fit in the car, but eventually they realize that a car like this, being an Audi flagship, deserved the s-tronic box and unfortunately brand two cars come exclusively. in the S tronic that's true and just be fair, yeah, so I think that's one of the things with this because basically, deep down, if you didn't know if you've been living under a rock for the last decade and a half, this is a Gerardo Huntley is essentially not building the same booster that I built, but in people and there are differences, but the fact is that you can buy one from 2007, being the first, yes, so you buy one of these from 2007 for basically 30 thousand dollars depending on the example. you're happy to go, it's about half the price of the Gallardo row you're going to find, which will be another four or five years older, so they're great value for money and, if you're happy to live with an art Roenick v10 those have dropped a lot in price recently they are falling through the floor you say they are not badly built in the same factory the Huracan bodies are definitely made in Germany and shipped to Sant'Agata and I am pretty sure that that This was also the case with the Gardo, so we built the actual bodywork at aluminum specialists Factory and Excel, along with spilled luggage.

Yes, I can't say for sure with the Guyardo because I don't know. I don't know that long ago because the r8 was built in a different factory, yes, marked 1 for the brand; They built the special factory that Bourlingueur offers on the outskirts of Neckarsulm, but it was built in Mecca salt, so the transition with the brand 2, but They say that Huracan bodies are made and shipped in Germany, so I'm being a little geeky, no, that's it, that's what it's about because part of the point of this series is to try to talk a little bit more about some of the things. which are of interest to people who buy these cars and the more practical side of things now Andrew, in case you don't know, runs his business book assistant, which is not just a YouTube channel, he also has a car sales business that focuses primarily, unsurprisingly, on bags. product, yes well it briefly broke away from the old past so the DWI defense dropped, it hasn't branched out into Lamborghini or Bentley yet but who knows, yes you gave me some

advice

one day because although these are a pretty durable general knowledge, there are a few things that people should keep in mind if they're

buying

, yeah, a lot, especially because you know, the first one is 13 years old and if you took it, you know especially that it's the average car, you'll find the La Bill could be many thousands of pounds, so inspections are probably the best advice if you are going to buy one.

Have someone take a good look at it because it could save you thousands in fees during the critical inspection, but Magnus, I'm surprised. I'm a big fan of Meg Ryan because when you push that little button, it gives this car a much more aggressive feel, it bounces off the road a little bit more like a GT3, but interestingly though it doesn't affect the throttle response. Because she makes the suspension tighter, she just feels, I mean, sharper in the corners. You know the rear end moves a lot easier if you're in it, if the shocks are firm, so I highly recommend it.

I know from the

review

s that they don't bother. I remember when they were still relatively new cars, they were only a couple of years old and magnetic ride very quickly became a must have and originally not a very expensive option. I seem to remember it was hundreds of a motorized option rather than a thousand pound one, but if you were trying to sell an R8 that wasn't equipped with magnetic ride, you'd have to price it about five grand less than one with for anyone to be remotely interested in

buying

it. but the front that we have corrected is that it comes out wrong, so I have what was cut privately.

I didn't get a guarantee because mag, if you're wrong, the savings from buying privately have just gone out the window. to replace the shock absorbers in pairs and they are not cheap but I had my fingers crossed because this being a later car Audi would have revived it when they got to 2014 and I'm pretty sure that's what they did because there was a new type of magnetic damper and you should have installed them in pairs at the rear, so there are improvements in this car. Touchwood, although there is a touch of plastic, yes, or leather, every plastic has been good all the time. the panels are aluminum throughout the aluminum frame, there is actually no steel in its construction other than the bolts in the bits for tension, so although people think aluminum doesn't corrode, unfortunately it does, yes, and the early cars were very prone to chips turning into blisters and Audi repainted many of them, these cars have one or two here and here and they are not worth dealing with, yes it has a 12 void corrosion warranty years, which, if I understand you, to the point where I want them resolved.

I will take you so you can do it, but you have to be careful, yes, because I find it very unpleasant. Oh, I've seen enough martingales do it too, yes, even the McLarensThey are suffering from it at first. The MacLarens have already suffered a lot and there are limiting panels, so in terms of running costs and such, there are quite a few people who I think are looking to upgrade to one of these frogs, let's just say a 911 and a roughly lower budget 911 you would be talking about 900 maybe one of the first 99 7's and I know my neighbor is thinking about upgrading it's 996 c4 for one of these so you've already had some c4's yeah with a 99 7 sorry three with a 997 in the middle, so there was a 996 crossed with a 997 sandwich, so how do you find the overall routine maintenance costs in this well?

I stupidly went to a dealer for hours for an oil change which cost around £500 and didn't end up the way I did. I wanted it done so if you go to a specialist I only went there because I wanted them to look at the areas of corrosion that it had become. I realized they couldn't do that even though they should have been able to so That I wasted a lot of time and effort going to my guide when I could have gone to a friendly specialist, paid half the price and just gone to a specialist. The Audi body shop goes to the body inspection so you know they aren't that ridiculous.

I think the spark plug was done in April, when it was six years old, and I don't do it myself if you want to pay for transportation to do it. It probably wouldn't cost more than a few hundred pounds if you went overseas, although they like to triple the cost of the work you pay a specialist. So is there anything that requires the engine to go further, for example things like the clutch? The only thing that keeps coming up with other owners is that when the air conditioning compressor fails, there is a time when I have to say whether or not the air conditioning in modern cars is generally the wind on the ground, so yeah , that could be a bad engine.

It could be someone with dexterous fingers and especially a workshop you can do it without, but I guess it's an engine-out job and I think grinding the gearbox isn't actually that difficult because they're in the back, so that you have the engine right behind you. us and the gearbox is located under the exhaust yeah you can go you know you would be doing a lot more work to get close to the engine with the gearbox out of commission and the gearbox is actually Lamborghini without words. I'm starting with the badge. on it, which I don't know if that makes it more reliable or not, let's not get into that.

I'm not too worried about the running costs of this car, okay, we pay 550 in taxes, but you pay that for a golf r32 or you pay it for Arrived and finally because we're not going to make the video too long, how would you describe the feeling of this compared to a 911? How would it work? Yes, okay, it's bigger, it's more of an event to drive despite the interior. It's nothing special, you forget what people see when you're sitting behind this TTS cockpit and you know it feels like a real occasion to get off your aircraft carrier just by looking at it in your Gary, just sitting in it, it feels like The Porsche really special ones are great but they are too easy and the badge is shiny.

You know, it's better than an Audi to have a Porsche badge, but I think this isn't really an Audi, it's basically a Lamborghini. a lot less money and you can have a v8, which is a lot less scary to own than a v10, so it really is an entry level supercar, it's affordable and it gives you that feeling of driving a supercar, you know it's slow, it's wide . It is not practical in many ways. Porsche have made flying more practical. Yes, in terms of storage, here you have a trunk in the front that is a very strange shape and then you have this little shelf in the back that is actually more useful than it initially seems, but I tend to use it if you are On a longer trip, it's good for carrying things to where you're going and that's it.

I'm there, there's OVW, obviously there's a VW festival or something. This is happening today because it's full of camper vans and all that, but I should probably also point out that we haven't started and the caffeine in the machine we started from Gilks ​​Garage Cafe which I thought was a really lovely little place, small setup and nice, family owned. The garage is in its fifth generation of ownership, they have now been there since about 1900 and in fact they basically predate the car or car or friend you know as normal transportation. You see farm equipment used for hooves and horseshoes for shoes. to start selling fuel because people started using tractors and then they became a Hillman dealership yeah roots yeah I think guys are just more anxious even though it's about ten minutes from the coffee machine and a great breakfast, a good coffee is a good coffee, a hot chocolate.

It was lovely, yes. Oh, a transmission. I always try to be a good supercar owner. I'm doing my bit day by day to try to improve the image of Audi drivers where I can, so yeah, basically, to make a long story short, okay, yeah, nice car.