AUDI R8 X AKRAPOVIC
It’s a mid-life facelift for the Audi R8 super-sports car. If you want the abridged version, it consists of new LED headlights, a new gearbox, some extra standard equipment and a small price hike. No changes to either engine or suspension, though; Neckarsulm isn’t fixing what it rightly considers ain’t broke.
This car is so good, in fact, that it wants for some of the little motive foibles that us drivers often like to think of as ‘charm’. Trust Audi to make a sports car capable of stimulating the deepest recesses of your conscious mind and making you feel like hero at the wheel, but also of leaving you a little cold at the end of the day. The R8 has all of the dynamic ability of the full-blooded exotic, but still lacks some of the mystique.
