2020 Audi R8 Performance Is More Than Just a Facelift
2020 Audi R8 Performance Is More Than Just a Facelift
I am an unashamed fan of the Audi R8, from the very beginning. By the time the first-generation car launched in 2009, the Lamborghini Gallardo with which it shared an architecture had already started to look dated. The R8, by comparison, looked futuristic and almost of the stars, an image solidified an Iron Man connection. Though admittedly, the Huracán is a far prettier car than the R8, still, last year's car and this new 2020 car both look better. But that’s subjective. What isn’t is how much more German the R8 is than the Huracán. And that matters. 2020 Audi R8 Performance Is More Than Just a Facelift
In 2014, I took part in a pseudo-reality show promoting the video game Forza Horizon. For those who don’t know, Horizon and its sequels are open-world driving simulators; they are a wonderful alternative to hardcore racetrack simulations, and feature realistic worlds, roads, weather patterns, and traffic. Super fun game, then and now. The promotion was simple: film a “Forza Horizon Tour” in real life, with real cars. 2020 Audi R8 Performance Is More Than Just a Facelift
They paired up a bunch of YouTubers with Video Gamers from all over the world, and assigned each a car for a 2,000-mile road trip across Europe. Lamborghini had just announced the Huracán, and in a partnership with the studio, put it on the cover of the Forza Horizon box.
Turn 10 studios, being an American company, gave me, the American driver, first pick from the group of cars, which included the aforementioned Huracán, an Aventador Roadster, Jaguar F-Type R, Porsche 911 Cabriolet, BMW M3, Audi R8, and McLaren 650S. No one had ever driven a Huracán before; this was a preproduction, non-editorial example. 2020 Audi R8 Performance Is More Than Just a Facelift
I chose the R8. The producers, somewhat aghast I wouldn’t choose the newest Lambo, begged to find out why, and I told them: because unless you’re going very, very fast, at the absolute limit of rubber’s adhesion, the R8 is simply a much better way to see the world. Because it was designed and finished by Germans, and not by Italians.
See, I love Italy. I love Italians, their food, their style, their country, and their cars. But I love their cars because they don’t build them for me; they build them for themselves, and as such, you’re going to like them. But they don’t care in the least if their cars work for you. Lamborghini’s are small cars, made by small people, for small people. And if you don’t fit in them, or if you aren’t comfortable in their seat, well, as one Lamborghini rep once told me, “This is not the car’s fault.”
So 2020 Audi R8 Performance Is More Than Just a Facelift
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