dannyboy2005
17th April 2010, 10:13
At work on Thursday, we were cutting some metal and its got to be galvanised, The owner of a galvinising company came in to give us a quote and he turned up in a R8 VAROOM, oh. It only had 16,600 miles on the clock.
He took details and said "Right then, thats it, anything else" i said as a laugh "A spin round the block in the R8?" He replyed "Lets Go" :fcuk: (I wasn't expecting it, once in a life time chance.)
Started the car/ beast up and VAROOM. whole works yard looks at you. As he engaged reverse, on his 'Tv' it shows the reverse camera and it shows a green path where you should be reversing, to avoid other objects. Bloody clever.
Then as he pulled forward, the front end camera came on and showed the safest path in green, on how to avoid knocking my rear end out.
We headed towards the A3, towards Guildford. He floored it out of the industrial estate and FCUK!! The noise and speed it picks up is un real.
Got to the A3 and he 'slammed' his foot on the gas (it was a Automatic) and it dropped down 2 gears and floored it down the slip road. Probably doing 120mph and you wouldn't even realise, such a smooth ride.
Basically cruised at 90mph (with the rest of the traffic) and when there were some gaps in the traffic, he would floor it, unreal noise and quickness even at 90MPH.
We got off 2 junctions before Guildford, went round a roundabout at 40MPH and FCUK :fcuk:, NO LEAN WHAT SO EVER. You wouldn't know you were going round a roundabout if you had a blind fold on.
Floored it up the slip road to head back to Weybridge/ Chertsley and we were doing 100MPH again. Tbh, when he floored it, though it did push you back in your seat but it never made your stomach go funny. My mate had a 2.5T Audi A6 iirc as a curtsey car and when he floored that, it honestly took my breath away and i couldn't lift my head forward off of the head rest, made my head go all funny, like on a roller coaster. And it would wheel spin (ESP was on) when he changed into 2nd, 3rd and 4th LOL, where as the Audi R8 didn't really seem to have the same OMG factor.
It's so basic in side. Still has 'Knobs' to twist for temperature of the heating and still got air vents etc. It had 'Leather' but it felt and looked like cheap leather you get with some cars. IMO, there over rated the R8's and i wasn't overall impressed with the acceleration, just the handling was un real.
I'd rather have a A6, 2.5T, far cheaper, and what i thought, more of a 'wow' factor when you accelerated for what essentially would be 'A Family Car'
I was very grateful to the guy who took me out for 40 minutes. The question had to be popped to him so i could be a bit cheeky lol.
He took details and said "Right then, thats it, anything else" i said as a laugh "A spin round the block in the R8?" He replyed "Lets Go" :fcuk: (I wasn't expecting it, once in a life time chance.)
Started the car/ beast up and VAROOM. whole works yard looks at you. As he engaged reverse, on his 'Tv' it shows the reverse camera and it shows a green path where you should be reversing, to avoid other objects. Bloody clever.
Then as he pulled forward, the front end camera came on and showed the safest path in green, on how to avoid knocking my rear end out.
We headed towards the A3, towards Guildford. He floored it out of the industrial estate and FCUK!! The noise and speed it picks up is un real.
Got to the A3 and he 'slammed' his foot on the gas (it was a Automatic) and it dropped down 2 gears and floored it down the slip road. Probably doing 120mph and you wouldn't even realise, such a smooth ride.
Basically cruised at 90mph (with the rest of the traffic) and when there were some gaps in the traffic, he would floor it, unreal noise and quickness even at 90MPH.
We got off 2 junctions before Guildford, went round a roundabout at 40MPH and FCUK :fcuk:, NO LEAN WHAT SO EVER. You wouldn't know you were going round a roundabout if you had a blind fold on.
Floored it up the slip road to head back to Weybridge/ Chertsley and we were doing 100MPH again. Tbh, when he floored it, though it did push you back in your seat but it never made your stomach go funny. My mate had a 2.5T Audi A6 iirc as a curtsey car and when he floored that, it honestly took my breath away and i couldn't lift my head forward off of the head rest, made my head go all funny, like on a roller coaster. And it would wheel spin (ESP was on) when he changed into 2nd, 3rd and 4th LOL, where as the Audi R8 didn't really seem to have the same OMG factor.
It's so basic in side. Still has 'Knobs' to twist for temperature of the heating and still got air vents etc. It had 'Leather' but it felt and looked like cheap leather you get with some cars. IMO, there over rated the R8's and i wasn't overall impressed with the acceleration, just the handling was un real.
I'd rather have a A6, 2.5T, far cheaper, and what i thought, more of a 'wow' factor when you accelerated for what essentially would be 'A Family Car'
I was very grateful to the guy who took me out for 40 minutes. The question had to be popped to him so i could be a bit cheeky lol.