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Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: Werner on December 12, 2005, 10:21:50 am

Title: The new Audi R10
Post by: Werner on December 12, 2005, 10:21:50 am: Let's see what our favorite is and what they will present tomorrow...
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Nobby Diesel on December 12, 2005, 10:55:50 am: I've heard it's going to be a V12 oil burner.
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: hgb on December 12, 2005, 02:11:13 pm: I bet it will be a open pedal driven go kart to win the 24 Minutes du Mans. ;D
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Paddy_NL on December 12, 2005, 02:30:30 pm: Quote from: hgb on December 12, 2005, 02:11:13 pm
I bet it will be a open pedal driven go kart to win the 24 Minutes du Mans. ;D
interesting subject, has Bobblehat gone off in his winter sleep? >:(
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: neilsie on December 12, 2005, 03:27:35 pm: i wonder when the first non-combustion car will compete?
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: amazing 1 on December 13, 2005, 12:11:04 am: My thoughts are diesel.I think the technology is there,and Audi would be just
the manufacturer to do it. 8)
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: amazing 1 on December 13, 2005, 12:32:51 am: just popped up on the net over here.
http://www.motorsport.com/photos/select.asp?S=ALMS&E=Audi_R10_presentatio/Studio_shoot&Y=2005#

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/select.asp?S=ALMS&Y=2005&D=&N=&E=Audi_R10_presentatio%/Shakedown#
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Steve Pyro on December 13, 2005, 12:38:38 am: So it's a V12 diesel then. The car looks 'similar' to the R8 though.
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Lorry on December 13, 2005, 01:04:17 am: Its an R8 with black smoke, and a cabmeter

Diesel's got to work. White vans are the fastest things on the road so it all makes sense
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Werner on December 13, 2005, 01:47:32 pm: Okay, the news is out, so I've locked the poll. Most got it right with the open LMP Diesel, lets smell it in June ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Fax on December 13, 2005, 02:32:16 pm: Just took a look at it, hardly thrill a minute stuff. Looks like a cleaned-up R8 with a sophisticated truck engine. Maybe interesting from a technical standpoint for the Audi engineers but I doubt it's going to make anyone giddy with delight when it drones into view.
Fax
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Canada Phil on December 17, 2005, 10:08:42 am: Quote from: Fax on December 13, 2005, 02:32:16 pm
Just took a look at it, hardly thrill a minute stuff. Looks like a cleaned-up R8 with a sophisticated truck engine. Maybe interesting from a technical standpoint for the Audi engineers but I doubt it's going to make anyone giddy with delight when it drones into view.
Fax
Hi Fax,
Truck engined cars have won before ;D
Canada Phil
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Lorry on December 17, 2005, 11:44:06 am: Quote from: Canada Phil on December 17, 2005, 10:08:42 am
Hi Fax,
Truck engined cars have won before ;D
Canada Phil
Are you being rude about my friends and the old Bentleys?
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Fax on December 17, 2005, 11:29:23 pm: Let's not forget the Chrysler Viper engine started life as a truck lump. Grrrr
Fax
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Canada Phil on December 18, 2005, 06:19:05 am: Quote from: Lorry on December 17, 2005, 11:44:06 am
Quote from: Canada Phil on December 17, 2005, 10:08:42 am
Hi Fax,
Truck engined cars have won before ;D
Canada Phil
Are you being rude about my friends and the old Bentleys?
Hi Lorry,
Not at all. Did Bentley build Lorries too?
Try 1938. And yes Fax the Viper too
Canada Phil
Title: Re: The new Audi R10
Post by: Lorry on December 18, 2005, 11:01:24 am: I think it was Ettore Bugatti who referred to the Bentleys as the "fastest lorries ever made", and if you compare a Speed Six to a Type 35 you can see what he means. But then how often did a Bugatti win Le Mans? Is this an omen of good fortune?

Bugatti blew it, of course, with the Royale, which was far bigger than any Bentley.