We never got around to posting this news but PPI launched their incredible Audi R8 Razor. This has got to be the best Audi R8 out there from a tuner. ABT just has some bad design work, very plastic, gaudy looking bodies. Even thoguh this beauty is not pushing ungodly amounts of horsepower it is drop-dead perfect as if the Audi R8 wasn’t all ready.
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The PPI R8 and PPI R8 Razor – automobile lifestyle in carbon fibre
With the launching of the R8, Audi heats up against rivals Porsche, Ferrari and Bentley vigorously providing stiff competition. The Swabian, German tuners PPI Automotive Design GmbH, customize Audi’s flagship sportscar by stoking up the fire with even more coal going that extra mile by providing an enhanced look combined with improved driving dynamics. A wind tunnel-tested aerodynamic kit of carbon fibre in combination with a performance enhancement and special lightweight magnesium wheels in 19-inch dimensions provides measurably improved appearance whether on the race track or the elegant promenade of the elite jet set.
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Just watch clips like the Blacklist and you get goosebumps! Listen to The Journalist featuring David E. Davis, Jr., Dean of Automobile Journalists and founder of Winding Road magazine… much better ad material.
Great job on the microsite: http://www.truthinengineering.com
Do we like? Well, it’s a hard one to swallow. We do agree with the guys over at TTAC. It is/was an odd concept that made it past all the thumbs at the Audi table that day. Setting yourself up to be equated with an evil bastard..
We would have loved some more in line with the R8’s.. well everything about the R8! It is an amazing machine. Skip past all the Godfather scenes and listen/look at the R8 driving!
O-well. This is a sneak peak. Maybe there’s more to be had come Super Bowl XLII time.
and no it’s not mine… 
SpOOkyRollerDisco (vwvortex) took some sweet shots of it at Nalley Audi here in Atlanta.
I wish it was white or red but still it’s damn nice!
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There are a few books I would love to have but at the moment, with two kids running the house…
I haven’t found it anywhere but via the publisher Heel Verlag for 29 EUR
The Audi R8, available to customers since June, is the new mid-engined sportscar from AUDI AG. The entire annual production allocated for Germany in 2007 is already sold out. The name and genes of the R8 originate from the most successful Le Mans Prototype ever which recorded 63 wins from 80 starts – including five victories in the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans.
“Born to win” is filled with a host of amusing passages and fascinating photographs recounting the Race-R8’s unique success story from its roll-out in December 1999 to its final victorious race in July 2006. Author Thomas Voigt, who followed the R8 project from its very inception, shares numerous anecdotes from the seven years of competition in the course of 128 pages. Head of Audi Motorsport, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, the technicians responsible and drivers of the R8 recount their personal memories. A comprehensive table of statistics including every result and information appertaining to the sixteen R8-Prototypes built make the book a ‘must read’ for sportscar fans.
“Audi R8 – Born to win” (128 pages, format 23 x 33 centimetres) is printed in two languages (German/English) by Heel-Verlag and is available at specialist bookshops for 29 Euro.
- PaddockTalk
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Hot on the tails of yesterdays Audi A1 sketches comes the Car Magazine niujas again with the targa topped Audi R8. Not bad with a bit of Carrera GT thrown in… I’ll take mine with a hardtop.
Audi is lopping the top off its R8 supercar - and CAR Online has the exclusive proof. This official design sketch leaked from the company’s Ingolstadt design studios shows exactly how the open-air R8 will look when it goes on sale in 2009. It follows our scoop on the Audi A1 yesterday, and we have more Audi news to come tomorrow.
This drawing reveals the R8 targa for the first time, with twin speedster humps incorporating breathing vents for the mid-engined V8 behind the two-seater cockpit. The doors are deeply scalloped, as on the coupe, but this time there’s a shortened, stumpier aluminium-look blade just ahead of the rear wheels. Tone down the cartoony feel of this sketch (just look at the liquorice-wrapped, deeply dished alloys) and this is the final production car.
This picture confirms CAR Magazine’s scoop (October 2006) that the R8 will have removable targa panels, rather than a space-gobbling removable fabric roof or folding hard-top. Fact is, most buyers of this £85k roadster will live in hotter climes like Florida, where a fiddly targa top won’t be a problem.
Audi R8 Spider - First Official Pictures - Carmagazine.co.uk
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