Quote Originally Posted by RXBG View Post
and it is a hardcore, non daily drive version of the basic car. same will be true of the gallardo sv. one cannot compare these cars to the basic versions they came from. a race version of the R8 could also be produced and that would be a fair comparison with the above cars.

the bottom line is that the gallardo/R8 will soon face an ID crisis. and with porsche's say i would highly doubt that lambo will remain an audi owned company. lambo, believe it or not, is in danger of being sold........

i do not know how audi plans to distinguish the V10 R8 from the gallardo. i do not suspect the gallardo will produce more than 550 hp in final form (the last expected updated before an all new model that is at least 3 years away b/c lambo R&D is now operating on it's own profits and sans audi funding). only diff between the two will be the more daily livability/comfort of the R8. (while achieving 9/10ths of the performance at a 50K minimum savings- which could buy you a heffner kit that will kill just about anything this side of a zonda)

and finally, the V10 in the R8 is expected to be a high rev NA engine... iow- an RS4engine with two more cylinders. and not requiring a computer to release 100 more hp from it. that is scary brilliant stuff....and imo shall be a much superior engine to the one in the M5 and M6......
Lambo is in danger of being sold? According to who? At least provide a source don't just pull things out of thin air.

The heffner kit? It is over 50,000 dollars! No one is going to buy that. It requires new internals, doesn't work correctly with e-gear, and requires months of labor. To remove it later would be impossible. Not only that, it takes the car to low 11's at 128. Nothing short of a zonda will touch it? Sorry, 997 turbo's are surpassing that with BOLT ON'S, not even going to mention the Z06.

Isn't the motor in the gallardo a high rev NA 10? Why would the R8 get a better v10 than the gallardo which is what it would take to match up to BMW's v10?