MTM R8 Is The Fastest Car At 2013 Tuner Grand Prix

The Audi R8 established its ascendancy once more, as Associate in Nursing R8 tuned by MTM was the quickest automotive round the Motordrome Short Course throughout the 2013 Tuner car race. With Florian Gruber, MTM’s chief racer and driver, the MTM R8 established to be the quickest automotive round the two.6 km (1.6-mile) track.

There were sixty six entries within the challenge, however none of them managed to beat MTM R8’s time of 1:06.695. The R8 was equipped with a height-adjustable chassis, three-part BBS rims with center-mount locks and a group of Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires.

At identical event, Florian Gruber recorded a best time of 1:14.0 at the wheel of the MTM A1 quattro. subsequent challenge for MTM are going to be at the European nation Ring, close to the capital capital of Slovakia, on Gregorian calendar month eighth theought ninth, 2013. We’ll see if it's equally amazing results.

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The automotive raced at the 2013 Tuner automobile race was supported AN Audi R8 V10. The tuner remapped the european and put in a replacement stainless-steel sports system. As a result, the R8 currently delivers a complete of 606 H.P. at eight,000 rate and a peak torsion of 413 pound-feet. It sprints from zero to sixty mph in three.5 seconds and high speed leaps up to an improbable two hundred mph.

For the outside, the tuner put in a replacement front spoiler lip, aspect skirts and rear spoiler.

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ABT to Debut Four New Models, Including VW Golf Mk7, at the Geneva Motor Show

Widely considered as the world's biggest tuner of VW Group cars, ABT Sportsline will head to next week's Geneva Auto Show with a collection of four new models.

No doubt, one of the highlights at ABT's stand will be the firm's tune for the new seventh generation VW Golf hatchback, previewed here in a rendering, in which we get a taste of the cosmetic applications that include an assortment of aero parts, headlamp and mirror trims, and a new alloy wheel design from the ER-X line.
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Audi R8 Catches Fire at Supercar Rally 2013 in Mumbai

This one involves an Audi R8 that was apparently immolated on its way to the Parx Supercar Show in Mumbai, India on Saturday. It happened on the city's Bandra-Worli Sea Link bridge in the middle of the day, backing up traffic for hours, according to news reports.

The R8 — a car known to be slightly less fire-prone than other supercars, although it has its moments — had two occupants at the time, according to this account on Demotix. Both escaped in time and were unharmed.
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Little Girl Grows up But Still Loves Daddy's Audi R8 Sports Car

In late 2010, Cris Ostberg posted a video of his then 18-month-old daughter enjoying a ride in his Audi R8 Spyder. The clip became an instant hit, however, due to the fact that several people grilled him about the safety and legitimacy of placing a child seat up front, he removed the video - even though it is legal to do so if you switch off the airbags.

Some 18 months later, Ostberg has posted a new video of his daughter, who is now about three-and-a-half years old. This time she hops into an R8 V10 coupe and plays around with the gas pedal to hear the 10-cylinder engine roar.

Unfortunately, Ostberg chose not to film his child on the road for obvious reasons…

But just in case someone decides to pop into the comments section to grill him again, here's what he wrote in a posting on the VW Vortex forums:

"Before the fun police gets here, YES, it's legal for her to ride in the front seat. YES, the passenger airbags are switched off. NO, she doesn't know how to nor have the strength to release the handbrake. NO, she's not tall enough to firmly press the brake while simultaneously moving the shift lever which is what it would take to engage a gear."

Source: Carscoop

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