There’s one thing within the water in Texas. That’s the one factor that may clarify it. The gearheads down there in the part of America that was once Mexico actually know how one can take quick shit and make it sooner shit. Audi’s second-generation R8 is already spectacular with a 533 horsepower V10 and a 0-60 time of three.5 seconds, because of its normal all-wheel drive. However what in case you needed to greater than quadruple its energy output? You’d go to Texas.
Texans are obsessive about straight line velocity, pumping thousands and thousands of {dollars} into drag racing, prime velocity occasions, and land velocity racing. That’s how retailers like T1 Race Improvement make their dwelling, catering to those sorts of velocity obsessed maniacs. If you wish to go actually quick and look actually cool, you’re just about constructing a 2005 Ford GT, a Nissan R35 GT-R, or slapping some turbskis on a V10 in an Audi R8 (or its chassis mate Lamborghini Gallardo).
In final week’s episode of American Tuned with Rob Dahm, the R8 was the central piece of the function. There’s a motive these vehicles are so nicely regarded, as a result of they’re about as docile as kittens while you preserve the revs down, however while you push the loud pedal previous 6,000 RPM, it actually wakes up and begins to construct critical enhance. Is there one other automotive you may theoretically drive day-after-day, then flip as much as an 1/eighth mile drag strip and rip off a 5.2-second run? It’s not a precise science, however estimates often put a automotive that runs 5.2 within the eighth at about an 8.2 within the quarter. Wild.
Sadly Rob doesn’t get a ton of time with the automotive as a result of a entrance axle CV breaks when the automotive hooks up in third gear. Nevertheless it’s straightforward to see that that is an unbelievable platform that can proceed getting growth into the long run. I’d prefer to get behind the wheel for a rip on the Texas Mile. That appears like a riot.
