Ah, the infamous Green Hell. As many of you likely know by now it is a publicly accessible roadway. While many manufacturers, specifically performance-oriented ones, test their latest wares on the track you can still lap it in just about anything with wheels and can carry speed.
Yes, that includes RVs.
What Audi did this week was an accomplishment -- it set the fastest time around the 'Ring in an electric drive vehicle at 08:09. Of course, being an electric vehicle, it did so quietly.
Typically sports cars, specifically those that hover at the eight-minute mark are of the LOUD variety. So when CarScoop compared the R8 e-tron's lap with that of two other cars at the track on the same day, I have to admit I got a kick out of it.
Call us old fashion, but we believe that a sports car has to arouse all your senses with its acceleration, speed, handling, looks and of course, sounds...
...after watching this fresh video footage of an undisguised R8 e-tron prototype running around the Nürburgring and then comparing the sounds to the Pagani Zonda R and Huayra that happened to be on the circuit the same day, we can't help but feel dispirited for the Audi, even though we understand that they're different type of cars…
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