Is the Audi R8 amphibious? One way to find out

Rowley Birkin QC · 22-08-2008 4:08pm #1

bazz26 · 22-08-2008 4:15pm

I guess that driver will not be making a guest appearance on Top Gear as the Stig then?

Fozzie Bear · 22-08-2008 4:24pm

Partly amphibious at least. It seems to have ended up on the far side/bank of the canal going by those pictures. Maybe he was trying to skip it across the water much like i used to skip stones across ponds in my youth:D. Expensive test drive anyway.

carchaeologist · 22-08-2008 5:04pm

seems a very straight road to lose it!!!

what a depression....

Law_Student · 22-08-2008 5:07pm

Will the test driver be held liable for the damage, or would it be covered by the garage insurance?

unkel · 22-08-2008 7:56pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

seems a very straight road to lose it!!!

It's a rural road beside a canal. These roads tend to be as straight as straight can get and be several miles long.

Here it is: it's the road that crosses the middle of the picture vertically

Zoom out and you'll see just how straight it is

VH · 22-08-2008 8:14pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

seems a very straight road to lose it!!!

so is the road between carberry and derrinturn yet an mr2 took out about 200 yards of the ditch before being stopped by a tree - both roads look bumpy which can catch out a driver in a rwd car going at fair welly - car will start fishtailing - driver tries to recover by over steering and only makes things worse

DJ Hafez · 22-08-2008 8:35pm

Maybe a blowout and he couldnt control it then?

Hotwheels · 22-08-2008 8:48pm

Looks like the rear wheel touched the grass and turned him left abruptly..
He'll be pension age by the time its paid for if he had no insurance...

carchaeologist · 22-08-2008 9:43pm

He nearly made it to the other side!!

Rowley Birkin QC · 22-08-2008 9:46pm

So not quite amphibious, more aspirational hovercraft then?

Is the Audi R8 amphibious? One way to find out

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