{"id":115497,"date":"2009-12-30T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/30\/2010-audi-r8-5-2-fsi-v10-review\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:58:00","slug":"review-2010-audi-r8-5-2-fsi-v10-reminds-us-were-in-the-wrong-tax-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115497","title":{"rendered":"Review: 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI V10 reminds us we’re in the wrong tax bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI V10 – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nSigh. Another day, another 500+ horsepower supercar to babysit for a week. Such is my lot in life. Obviously I’m joking, to a degree. To be honest, I wasn’t that particularly jazzed about the Audi R8<\/a> with the defanged Lambo LP560-4 V10 shoehorned behind the seats, especially as I had prior knowledge that the more proper six-speed manual R8 5.2 FS I was supposed <\/em>to get had been unceremoniously replaced by the slusher, R-Tronic version. Before continuing one sentence further, am I aware that I sound like the world’s most spoiled rotten brat? Oh yes.<\/p>\n

But see, the thing is, I’ve driven the regular-strength V8 R8 and you know what? There’s nothing wrong with it. Perfectly neutral handling, 420 eager horses and looks that kill, or at least attract eyeballs like nothing I’ve seen this side of pornography. While more horsepower is always welcome, the notion that the 5.2-liter V10 “only” makes 105 ponies more combined with the extra weight just didn’t set off any great alarm bells of excitement. I’ll put it to you like this: I was much more excited when the 2010 Nissan GT-R<\/a> showed up at my door.<\/p>\n

It’s now seven days, four tanks of gasoline and 870 miles later. I drove the wheels off the world’s most expensive Audi, thrice<\/em>. On every type of road, over every type of surface, never venturing more than a few miles from home. I mention that last bit because discounting long trips, I’ve never put so many miles on a press car. Has my tune changed? Is the ten-cylinder R8 worth the $25,000 price premium over it’s “lesser” sibling? Perhaps most importantly, is the Audi R8 5.2 FSI an actual, honest-to-goodness everyday supercar? Jump and find out. And if you don’t feel like jumping, please for the good of your eyes, take a few minutes to peruse the gallery<\/a>, as it is one of our finest ever.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Audi, Reviews 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI V10 – Click above for high-res image gallery Sigh. Another day, another 500+ horsepower supercar to babysit for a week. Such is my lot in life. Obviously I’m joking, to a degree. To be honest, I wasn’t that particularly jazzed about the Audi R8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}