The New R8

"Dave LaCourse" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:24:32 -0000, "Lez Pawl"
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>>"Dave LaCourse" > wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:59:08 +0000, Dave N >
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>>>>In message >, Dave LaCourse
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>>>>>On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:50:00 +0000, Dave N >
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>Just because I predict something, it doesn't mean that I'm right :^)
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>>>>>That's obvious. d;o)
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>>>>>I had a chance to go to Barcelona, Spain for a day long school of
>>>>>driving the R8 on Circuit de Catalunya, but waited too long to
>>>>>register. Just as well, I guess, because I'll need the money to help
>>>>>pay for one in 09.
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>>>>>The Dreaming Dave
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>>>>In which case, ignore me, (!) :}, and look forward to enjoying your new
>>>>car. Such cars are now beyond my budget.
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>>> The R8 may well be beyond my budget also. Just dreaming, really. Of
>>> course my 23 and 22 year old grandsons are *insisting* that I buy one.
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>>> Dave (who will have to settle for his chipped RS6...d;o)
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>>sell the house and tell them their inheritance is now an
>>R8............between them.
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> I could do that. Maybe buy five R8s. But I would never be able to
> drive them. By the time the Chief of Naval Ops (aka wife) got through
> with me, I wouldn't be able to walk, much less drive.
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oooooo..........I'll be your chauffer, cook, cleaner, ironer...........sorry
it stops there.

My two pennies worth is that the A5/S5 is a bigger version of the TT, and
the R8 is clearly something else.

Mike Mitchell