Audi R8 drivers

[isaldiri]

HokumPokum said:

I have never tried the R-tronic box. I know it is similar to the lamb e-gear which i haven't tried as well but I have an smb bmw car how similar is it to the smb gearbox? I found that ok in my CSL. Sure it would frustrate in a daily driver but when pressing on, it's great.

Is this the same for R-tronic? i.e. frustrating when parking and moving off and clunky but when shifting at redline, perfectly suited for it's purpose?

Didn't find the rtronic box quite as bad as it's been made out to be. That was on the v10 which I was told had some software improvements over the v8 rtronic version. I thought it was considerably smoother than the smg on the E46 M3 CS that I have even on low speed manoeuvres, albeit obviously it was never going to be as slick as a modern dual clutch. Fairly certain I could live with the rtronic although why get the rtronic when the open gate manual is really good....!

[HokumPokum]

i find the brakes over-servoed thus making it hard to H&T. Prolly could be solved with a pedal kit but the ones I tried are like the aston, frustratingly difficult to H&T

so i am looking at DSG or R-tronic, I wonder if the R-tronic discount is too great

[isaldiri]

Agreed on the brakes being over servoed, that is a real shame in an otherwise really good car. If you're ok with the CSL SMG, I would think the rtronic would be at least as good to be honest. One has to assume however the rtronic will be harder to sell later though.