Audi R8 is destroyed after fuel spillage caused fire

If you read the post you would realise this problem has already been solved, and will never happen again.
This car was a test car as well, a pre-production model, and the problem is gone for all production R8s.
It is apparently a simple software update.
So yeah bulldogz, it is abnormal, Audis are very reliable, but I doubt Lexus was there.

iepurilah, read the next 2 pages on that talk board for a better explanation, the initial post is wrong.

bulldogz, that why I said read therest of the article.
Further investigation reveals that this is
A) A test car (we can tell be the serial number)
B) A car that hasn't had the fix like it should have
C) That this will never happen again.

did one of you idiots read the article?

this was a pre production model that the press guys spilled fuel on and burnt up the car

I don't understand why my fellow Lexus owners feel the need to trash Audi. Do you need justification for owning a car thats more of a poser than a driver? Is it a lack self confidence in your purchase? I own a Lexus and I still love Audis.

I'm confident that you haters of Audi have never owned one because you would understand why people love them so. I love my Lexus but it doesn't seem to grab my soul like my Audis. So please stop embarassing yourself with the spewing of hatred toward a car that you know nothing about.

Where are the German fanboys now? it really quite here for some reason? I'm really disspointed with Audi lately, first the their test prototype Audi R8/R10 catch on fire. And now this production Audi R8 catch on fire?

So much for German superiority ha....is this what you can heritage or prestige? yeah right, heritage my a$$... What a piece of trash, this car is cost up to $120+k and now is in flame.

Even a Kia/Hyundai last longer than this piece of crap, Audi fanboys read my lipp Audi will NEVER be as realible as Toyota and Lexus.

Yeah that right I'm going to a big deal about it because this car suppose to in the supercar league. And if this was a Lexus LF-A you German fanboys will flame it to death. So I'm just doing the opposite, I guess the Audi R8 will be off many shopper list now. Might as well wait for the more power and faster Lexus LF-A with 570 hp.

Audi R8=inferior, unrealiable, cheap ripp off Lambo, Audi you really need to include a fire extinguisher on your Audi R8 to prevent this from happening again.

The Lexus LF-A will be the new class leader for sure. Quality and the extensive racing heritage Lexus has are going to make it a killer.

Don't give me the gears. Engine fires happen occasionally to all makes. Gasoline can catch fire if spilled directly on a hot exhaust manifold but the top of the engine never reaches those high temperatures. I wonder how many car fires are casued by people smoking while handling gasoline around a car.

I once put layers of store-bought foam rubber between a 4-cylinder engine and the hood to see how quiet I could make it run on the highway. Noise redution was significant. Everyone told me that the foam would catsh fire but it never did.

It would be better if you kept it shut.

Ofcourse you havent heard about the transmission problem in the all new camry yet because toyota can really keep stuff quiet. Or have you heard of the computer problem in the all new Toyota Aurion? I guess not! So better keep it shut. Thank you.

P.S My uncle has a GS430 2006 model and guess what? He had to change the transmission too, why? Because it broke down. Too much for your Lexus being problem free right?

Told you better keep it quiet if you have nothing good to say ;)

I own a Lexus IS 350 and I can't wait to get back in an Audi. This car is great in so many ways but it is lacking in many ways also. It's a poser and not for real driving. Fast but BORING.

I don't understand why you feel the need to trash Audi just because you are driving a Lexus. I'm confident that you have never owned one because you would understand why people love them so. I have had both and my hat tips to Audi, not my Lexus.

Now that's a hot car!

It ain't no big thing.

I agree and the verdict is in here's our proof that Audi's catch on fire. POS

That guy in the R8 is an enthusiast, which something that a Lexus owner will never be considered. :-)

it would appear that audis have a tendency to catch on fire...there are many more examples of this. always a hot experience!

Audis have no such history. The only well-publicised engine fire problem I recall in the last 20 years or so concerned the fairly frequent engine fires in the Pontiac Fiero. Perhaps the Pontiac marketing guys had a premonition about these fires and named the car "Fiero" accordingly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm-e-EZhuMU

Lexus Admirer, that is a negligible amount of fire history for the time that Audi and its predecessor companies have been around. I suppose that Toyota or Lexus have never ever had an engine fire. It seems that the media loves to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Disaster, misfortune and scandal sell newspapers and increase TV ratings among the lower classes.

Anyone know what happen to agent63, the guy that said he own a brand new MB S-class, M6 and the new Lexus LS460? I wonder what he got to said about this? Did he got bann or did he quit?

And I know S4, is in his room crying right now over this belove it car. Tough luck bro! No car is invincible even an Audi R8 ;)

I have to agree that no car is invincible, not even the Mercedes S-Class in which Lady Di died. However, in fairness to Mercedes, the rear passengers in that crash were said not to have been wearing their seat belts and the French medical system took an extraordinary amount of time to get initial survivors to the hospital. Whenever something like the R8 fire happens, people rush to judgement and demonize the car when the underlying problem may have nothing to do with the car at all.

If Diana had been wearing her seatbelt she would have lived.

But no more Diana, I get enough of the bloody Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers rabbiting on about her in Britain...

toyota windom = Lexus ES (until current gen.)

yep, here is a youtube link, for the lexus fans that are sensitive, please do not watch as you will see a Toyota Harier, an RX for those who don't know that a Lexus IS a Toyota, burning...

But Toyotas are perfect, we all knew that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nISitmyxbJ4

here is a link to consumers affair;

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/lexus.html

It is well known that Lexus are very reliable, not to Mr Lexus, THIS IS how you spell reliable, but I guess Lexus made your spelling very reliable...

here is another one, very interesting, he 2005 RX had a recall, the 2006 RX had the same... aren't we a bit of a slow learner...
http://www.internetautoguide.com/auto-recalls/01-int/lexus/index.html

while I am at it, check this one out, a lexus owners forum. take the time to go through a few posts... boy! those Lexus they are so reliable, they have absolutely no problems...LOL

Come on Lexus fanbois, wake up, if anything was perfect in this world, don't you think somebody will have noticed by now.

Nothing and nobody is perfect, not a lexus, not a Toyota, not an Audi, not even a BMW.

But when it comes to the automobile industry, like anything involving big $$$, the main thing is not to be perfect, but to be really good at "hiding" your problems...

I did not want to leave anybody feeling lonely

http://www.bmwproblems.com/
http://www.mercedesproblems.com/
http://audiproblems.com/

NOW, you will notice that the first 2 are definitevely full websites, especially the mercedes one, this is outrageous.
The Audi one is just a web page by some guy...

Not that I am saying that Audi are better or anything...LOL

sorry!!!

forgot the link for the lexus owners forum

http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/

http://www.mycarstats.com/

this one is very interesting, takes time to go through all the cars, and accuracy and reliability of the reports is always difficult to check, but nonetheless interesting and informative... for some of you guys that tend to open their mounth ith their brain being not engaged.
some research never hurts, it's call education, ever heard of it?

The king of recall for 2006 the big 3 and than the German brands are also close to the bottom of the list. While Toyota and Lexus and other Japnese brand has the most reliable automobile.

Don't belief me do a search on this website and you will see...good.

The Audi R8 cost upward to to $120+k and I sure hope that it will last longer than a Kia, LOL :).....ha..ha...ha..ha...

I guess they should included the fire extinguisher with the car; what do you Audi fans think? ;)

It's always a good idea to carry a fire extinguisher in the car (any car) -- you never know when you can be a good samaritan and put out some poor motorist's engine fire. Of course there is always the risk of getting cursed for it in cases where the owner of the flaming car wants to collect the insurance but it could save a life in some cases.

Come on...Lexus fanboys let flame this post to death, what a piece of crap, $120k and now it all gone. This an Audi not some cheap car made in China or India you know so I expected more from Audi.

If the BMW keep on overheating and plague with electronic problem. And if Audi cars keep catching flame like this, the Japanese, Korean,American, Chinese and Indian auto company will take over for sure.

Isn't the Hyundai is in the process making an Audi TT killer? I would not be surprise if they come with an Audi A8 killer also.

Stop the BS.....LEXUzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..

Actually they're in the process of making a Lexus LS killer.

This was a pre-production model, the fault has been fixed for production, read the whole article.

The over-heating problem with the 335i was limited to pre-march production cars and BMW's aren't "plagued" with electrical problems, BMW's on average suffer 1.8 faults over the first 3 years and Lexi suffer 1.5 according to JD Power. Woop de doo, 0.3 less faults over 3 years....

All the German car owners on my street have long switched to Lexus because Lexus are so reliable.

Which rock on that street are you living under?

The Lexus LF-A is very reliable and will never burn not unless stupid German fanboys pour gasoline over it and light it up because it's better than an Audi R8 and Carrera GT and all that other German junk.

I am glad the Audi R8 burns. It's such an ugly car.

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. The R8 looks the part it was designed for -- a value among supercars.

In the last 6 months there were 4 fire incidents happened here in Dubai and all 4 cars were VWs.

and now this R8.

Is it co-incidence or VW (and group) is really that unreliable.

JUGNU

German cars like to burn.

Wow 4 cars. Who the **** cares!!

is the VWs modded? taking care of one (modded) takes more than the avg joe to maintain and messing w/ electricals is beyond me to explain.

From a 2007 Toyota owners perspective, on Toyota reliability:

My brand new '07 Camry V6 XLE has engine misfires from hell that keep activating the VSC and I have to pullover and restart the engine just so the VSC disengages the brakes. This is the 3rd time on record; one more time and I'm pursuing a lemon law on this piece of sh*t.

The VSC is a totally different issue too. I lost traction on wet pavement and the VSC came on, but wouldn't disengage. I scorched the brake pads hoping the damn system would disengage after a half mile, then pulled over to restart the engine.

If I can successfully lemon law this POS, I'm going back to owning a Nissan. I owned a first model year 2002 Altima 3.5 V6, that had absolutely no issues in the 70k miles I owned it; and it felt faster to boot.

Oh my god! There are just too many retards on this site! Please read whole article before you post stupid posts! And even if they( lexus fanatics) are warned about the mistake they still keep on saying BS! This is pure ignorance! Time to ban some people! This site will soon become mental hospital if some people don't get banned!

You're right, Volkswagen still does have terrible reliability. But Audi is far ahead of BMW and Mercedes-Benz lately.

P.S read my comment above, oh and to explain why the problems havent been published, Toyota seems to be paying ALOT of money to keep things quiet so that people like 'Lexus' can sleep peacefully at night.

Lexus and david,

do all of us a favor, here on this post, follow the links that I posted, you know how to do that don't you? Highlight the link, right click, copy, open browser, right click, paste, enter.
Check out facts vs your imagination.
Then if you have the guts, come back and tell us that Lexus are perfect.
Because everytime you do, we know you are lying, because we do go to those websites, or like in my case, we sold Lexus and we know they are no better than anything else.
What are the intend of your posts anyway?

I wish the Lexus trolls would just go away... this is seriously annoying. The R8 is a sensational vehicle and the fire doesn't have anything to do with the car's construction.

as you noticed, since I posted the link of a burning Toyota Harrier, sorry a Lexus RX, they have been really quiet...LOL
This proves a few things:
-knowledge is power
-Toyotas do catch on fire and are recalled by 1000's
-a Lexus is a toyota since a Lexus will be sold under the toyota name elsewhere than in the USA

Therefore I wish to claim a stop on the rebadge flame war, as no Audis are sold as Volkswagen anywhere in the world.

So as long as I am visiting this website, any Lexus fanbois that will dare call a AUDI a rebadged VW, I will post a toyota harrier picture, or a toyota excelsior (LS430)...LOL

AmazinBimmer......LOL, what is your next lie going to be?

Audi has better reliability than BMW or Mercedes-Benz I have proof to back up my claim unike you.

I will buy an R8 as soon as possible ($$$$$)

germanfunboys audi reliability sucks i dont see alot audi where iam from eastcoast .volkswagen and audi junks brackdown all the time . can wait for the fk ing nissan skyline kick the fk out audi r8

this MB/Audi/BMW vs. Lexus arguementis getting out of hand. queers BOTH OF YOU, ITS THE INTERNET! GROW UP!!

The title of this post said the Audi R8 is up in flame NOT a Toyota or Lexus.

And the last time I check with J.D. Power and Associates, Toyota and Lexus still have the highest quality overall. And the German brands were really close to the bottom of the list as being unreliable.

What are you talking about Lexus? Here's the current JD Power rankings:
http://www.autoblog.com/photos/j-d-power-2007-vehicle-dependability-study/346679/

BMW are just behind Toyota and Lexus are joint top with Buick. The only German brand near the bottom is VW. I normally try and respond rationally to people's dumb posts on here but I'm starting to think you really are as stupid as I first suspected. Try posting some facts for once and see how far you get, at least you might get some respect then.

here Lexus, in case you missed it;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nISitmyxbJ4

Yes we know it's about an Audi being on fire, but if you are going to throw a stone at me, make sure I can not send one back at you . Don't start what you can not finish.

Toyota admirer

I will reply to you with quote from your buddy Lexus
"this is about the R8" which is an Audi. I can explain your lame attempt to show us that VW do have fire recalls. But THEY ARE VW's, not Audis. You just digged your hole deeper, because the Toyota Harrier is a Lexus.

thank you for showing everybody that I am right...

Wow, big deal, do you think Lexus are immune from these issues or something?

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/lexus.html
http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t27552.html
http://sedans.autoblog.com/2004/12/09/lexus-es330s-having-transmission-problems/

And? That just proves the point i'm trying to make that no car is immune from problems, as Lexus expands their line-up further it is likely there will be some teething problems, or are you naive enough to think that won't be the case?

lexus admirer

did I make you mad? oh I am sorry! You are not crying are you? because you have to go back to 1998 to find something? It took me 2 secs to find recalls on Toyota harrier, sorry, Lexus RX and I am talking 2005/6. Please see link in previous post.

I guess you don't get it, do you? Or maybe you are a sore looser.

It's okay though, have a glass of milk, you will feel better.

caltrans

agreed, they keep going at it, they are comparing a pre-production model of a limited run exotic car to 1998 Audi A6 that might catch on fire but stay mute when I post the Harrier, sorry the RX that did actually catch on fire.

I don't know hat is it they don't understand.

hey Mr. Infiniti

sure the Nissan are really reliable

http://www.lemonlawclaims.com/nissan_g_35_brake_class_action.htm

oh! and this one is just too funny

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blogs.cars.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/24/keyfob.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/consumer_alerts/&h=230&w=270&sz=31&hl=en&start=11&um=1&tbnid=lDvo99ErEDS80M:&tbnh=96&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnissan%2Binfiniti%2Bburning%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN

Okay, I have enough fun making fun of this, but no one want this to happen. I have to give VW credit for making the Bugatti Veyron. And Audi who's working really hard just like Toyota and Lexus on making alots of new and exciting rides.

I mean when you try to make so much cars at the same time mistake is bound to happen, no one is invincible. Everyone make mistake even Toyota and Lexus so I hope VW/Audi will fixed problem soon.

Lexus admirer, thank for backing me up, yeah I got your back man. Yeah, I have enough of this because I know all the German fanboys are crying right now.

So I'm done here, everyone know Lexus make more realible cars than Audi, period. That is why Lexus is more prestige and popular than Audi in the U.S. The only reason why Audi done so well globally is because they been around longer, those people buying for it heritage not quality.

The last time I check it was the Lexus LS460 that won the "Worlds Car of The Year for 2007".

Yes all of us are crying at the Toyota Harrier.

And the last time I checked the Audi A8 beat you're beloved LS for initial quality in JD Power.

And reliability doesn't doesn't equal prestige, you don't know what you're talking about. Prestige comes from years of making iconic cars which were revolutionary for their time, cars which became classics. There is no classic Lexus car.

P.S The 3-series won WCOTY in 2006 and the Audi A6 won it in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_car_of_the_year

and I think the Bently continental GT won it in 2004. (owned by VW)

lexus admirer

you are too much man, you post a link where Audi have sludge problems, when Lexus has encountered the same proble, see my links posted earlier.
What does that prove? Lexus=Audi

See, nothing is perfect in this world. Nobody is neither.
If you could read and comprehend what some of us post, you will understand that nobody is saying that Audi is perfect, to the contrary of you and a few other that are trying to convince us that Toyota are the best and that Lexus are perfect.

All things consider, surfing the net, it seems that Audi and Lexus fair better than BMW and M-benz though.

What remain almost certain is that Lexuses are sold or have been sold as Toyotas in other market, that the Lexus quality is high but that deep down it is still a japanese mass produce Toyota and if you neat pick you will find where they cut corners. The accountant have too much to say in the name of profitability, when Audi is more of an "engineer" type brand and they rarely cut corners.

If the american perception of luxury puts Lexus in front of Audi, that is more a reflexion of heavy branding and marketing, and I will agree that Audi marketing absolutely sucks.

There is no doubt in my mind, having sold both brands that Audi appeals to the car enthusiast and young crowd, when lexus appeals more to the older and not-so-knowledgeable crowd.

By experience, I can assure you that Audi will sell a lot more car if they had stronger financing too. i am not counting the number of times where prospects come to my lot and really want an A6 or an A8, but can not afford it and go to BMW, Benz or Lexus.

On the other hand, is Audi on the right path in keeping high price leases? Isn't the true meaning of luxury something that not everybody can afford? This remain to be seen and is an entirely different debate.

I don't understand why my fellow Lexus owners feel the need to trash Audi. Do you need justification for owning a car thats more of a poser than a driver? Is it a lack self confidence in your purchase? I own a Lexus and I still love Audis.

I'm confident that you haters of Audi have never owned one because you would understand why people love them so. I love my Lexus but it doesn't seem to grab my soul like my Audis. So please stop embarassing yourself with the spewing of hatred toward a car that you know nothing about.