R8 at last
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309 months

Tuesday 21st February 2017
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Finally picked it up as part of a road trip to Northern and Southern Ireland.




2009 4.2 with 12k miles. Switchable exhaust (omg it sounds fabulous)
Lots of lovely carbon. Very precise drive, super ride quality even in sport mode and effortless pull in any gear. 4th is a lazy "just leave it there" gear :-)

maxest

310 posts

249 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Perfect.. now find me one similar please! :-)

Heaveho

7,592 posts

205 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Great car, loved ours, well done.

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Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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maxest said:
Perfect.. now find me one similar please! :-)
I'm not sure there's another with this colour and spec out there tbh! 13hr trip home was worth it!

Vitorio

4,296 posts

174 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Amazing car imho, awesome buy

HannsG

3,135 posts

165 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Subbed

coopedup

3,742 posts

170 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Just beautiful.

familyguy1

785 posts

163 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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lovely colour combo, wow enjoy smile I assume from the 4th gear comment its manual ? lovely.

Mike335i

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133 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Lovely stuff, I also immediately assumed manual gearbox, are we right?

thetapeworm

13,899 posts

270 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Very nice indeed Chris smile

Andy665

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259 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Lovely, they are aging very well and the 4.2 sounds so much better than the V10 imho

bungz

1,965 posts

151 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Very nice.

12K is nothing in 8 years either, was it just a ornament?

mx-6

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244 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Really nice motor. I'm very into my blue on cars, more interesting than black/grey/white.

That's some low mileage, someones done a nice job of running it in and letting it depreciate so you can now enjoy it!

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Original Poster:

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Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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thanks, so far so good very pleased.
manual 6 speed, sat nav (clunky), extended leather, carbon trim, titanium paint finish rims, bang and olufson with an additional upgraded amp behind the seats, 6 disc cd, phone prep etc. really nicely specified back in the day, think the paint was £2.5k, the total is £17k for the spec list as it was. Eisenmann remote valved exhaust, fairly muted when closed but fabulous when open, without being chavvy, i managed to get some noise in the tunnel on the A55 last night through wales that was childish but impressive!


ive no idea as yet how to do half the stuff it can do, however the sports suspension mag ride is nice on either setting, i'm just wary of leaking shocks there.

ive come from a very well sorted 993S (1997), so this is faster, but also feels sharp turning in, the steering seems perfectly weighted. its not the fastest thing I've had, but its more than adequate for road use. i was constantly checking which gear i was in and often was pottering round in 4th, there is a lot of low down torque.

the brakes are fab, no issues there, so far so good is the report! :-)


Chr1sch

2,592 posts

224 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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That looks fantastic, congrats smile

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Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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bungz said:
Very nice.

12K is nothing in 8 years either, was it just a ornament?
just a weekend toy! ive already put 680m on it since monday!

addz86

1,473 posts

217 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Looks beautiful, I borrowed a manual V8 R8 a few years ago and it was a lovely drive

Shnozz

30,678 posts

302 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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Came very close to one 6 months ago. Lovely car - enjoy it.

Podie

46,649 posts

306 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Nice!

Good to see someone choosing a colour!

anonymous-user

85 months

Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Just leave the Mag ride in normal mode and let it stiffen up when needed. A lot of people seem to think you only turn it 'on' when you need a stiffer suspension, but it's actually on all the time doing it's thing. The only time you need to turn it 'on' into sports mode and fix it into a stiffer setting is when tracking imo.

I had a manual Mugello blue with Oxygen silver sideblades for about 18 months and loved mine. The Sepang blue with carbon looks lovely.

Enjoy!!