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That's pretty ugly, but ugliest?  I'd give that vote to the original Audi TT.  When it came out it could have been named the VW Beetle Sport.

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Was this the 1st time you saw the R8?
Me likes!
And not only of the fact that it´s very possible that the R8 is more reliable than the Ferrari.
And who won last years 24h du Le Mans?

Arnimon wrote on Feb 6^th, 2007 at 2:45pm:

I don't know if that's particularly telling.  The outright LeMans win hasn't been seriously contested by any other major manufacturers for years.  Pescarolo is just about the biggest Audi threat and they're miniscule by comparison.  If Audi really wants to test their engineering mettle then they'd best do it in F1 or NASCAR.  That's where the big automakers are devoting their efforts.  The best LeMans competition today (and perhaps the most important to those of us who buy street cars) is in GT2, the slowest class.  There Porsche, Ferrari, Panoz, etc are hammering it out.  P1?  Audi has that class all to themselves...

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No, the Veron was built for one reason and one reason only. To prove that it could be done and once you can prove it, there are people who will buy regardless of how much it costs.

As for the Top Gear wing, Koenigseg put that on because the car fightend the Stig sh#t less going around corners ( I say that figuratively, we all know the Stig goes by proxy)

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Probably why they wont let it go round top gears track.
But as Ex-pat said, they built it to show it could be done. Its all about pure speed with the Veyron.
The thing I dont like is the constant harping on about it being faster than an F1 car, as though an F1 car could never be as fast. As Adrian Newey and Pat simmons said a while back, if they really wanted to, they could make an F1 car that goes round a corner at 250mph given the time and resources. The only downside being the driver.

Craig. wrote on Feb 7^th, 2007 at 5:18am:


BAR Honda reckon that they can get 426kph out of one of thier cars. While being slightly modified (Honda's words) for the event, is still a track legal BAR Honda 007 – the team's entry in the 2005 FIA Formula One World Championship. At the wheel for the record attempt will be Alan van der Merwe, member of BAR Honda's Young Driver Programme. Unfortunately last October/Novembers attempt was thwarted by the weather. It is hoped that it will be done this year.

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And I suspect we'll see the same as Toyota makes their start in the top echelon of NASCAR.  I'm no NASCAR fan, and I'm only a passing F1 fan (USGP face disilusioned me).  But LeMans has seen a number of automakers show up in a field of light competition and take top prize.  BMW, Toyota, Porsche to name a few.  That doesn't make the win any less prestegous (LeMans is my favorite racing event) but it doesn't mean that the automaker has demonstrated its superiority over strong competition.

Like I said, if Audi were out to prove itself against the world's best it wouldn't be doing in in LMP1.  It would do it in F1, NASCAR, WRC, GT1, maybe GT2.