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With the roof sealed, the cabin is quiet. It goes up or down in 19 seconds and at speeds of up to 31 mph, and it works at temperatures down to five degrees.
Take the fully automated top, for instance. The R8 has always been the most user-friendly supercar of the current era, and the spyder variant is no different. That’s about it for changes and compromises in going from coupe to convertible. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play It’s an option on European models, but we’re hoping it will be standard for our market.
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We tried it with the top and windows down at about 45 mph, and it works amazingly well.
There are three discs along the length of each shoulder belt, and the system automatically recognizes which is closest to the speaker.
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One innovation that comes with the spyder is a set of microphones in the seatbelts for the hands-free Bluetooth phone connection. This is where the CD changer and the iPod-friendly Audi music interface are located in the spyder, which frees up space in the glove box. Audi added a three-bin storage compartment in the back of the cabin between the seats.
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The interior is almost identical to that of the coupe with enough head- and legroom to comfortably fit six-foot-plus types, at least as far as your five-foot-nine test driver can guess. Luggage space, a four-cubic-foot trunk in the nose, is unchanged, although some might say such modest volume is already a compromise. Raised to a maximum of six inches with the top down, the window acts as a wind blocker and helps reduce turbulence lower it with the top up, and the opening allows engine noise to flow into the cabin for increased aural pleasure. Like the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 that the R8 has much in common with, the rear window operates independently of the top. When tucked away, the top sits above a large portion of the V-10, making an engine-viewing window impossible, but two slotted silver vents running along the rear deck add some visual pop. The windshield is lowered slightly, and height drops 0.3 inch. The distinctive “sideblade” air intakes from the coupe have been subbed out for more conventional scoops in front of the rear wheels, and the upshot is that the V-10 convertible is an inch narrower than the coupe, equal to the V-8 coupe’s 75.0-inch width. Thankfully, the R8’s styling has been preserved in the convertible conversion.
Instead of aluminum panels, the rear quarter-panels and the section that covers the stowed top are made of carbon fiber. Mitigating the weight gain, however, is new bodywork in the rear.
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The body-in-white is only 13 pounds heavier in droptop form, and factor in the 93-pound softtop and the electrohydraulic hardware that powers its operation plus pop-up rollover protection, and the total weight gain is kept to 220 or so pounds. (Or you can wait an as-yet-unspecified period for a more affordable version with the standard R8’s 4.2-liter V-8.) But specifically compared with the R8 coupe, all the usual convertible penalties-excessive weight, reduced performance, a floppier chassis, cramped luggage space-are minor or nonexistent in the R8 spyder.Īs to rigidity, thicker A- and B-pillars together with added braces and panels in the floor make up for some of the stiffness that is lost when the roof is cut. The biggest compromise is doing without the kidney you’ll have to sell to afford the estimated $165,000 base price when the car arrives here in late fall. This is not the case with the 2011 Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 V-10 FSI Quattro. It’s well documented that chopping the roof off a car usually includes a list of sacrifices made in exchange for open-sky motoring.
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