Why make the side blades look gen 2?! 90% of people including most R8 owners love the look of the gen 1 and in a perfect world would just have a gen 2 engine and suspension in a gen 1 with a manual option of course haha. The 10% is probably guys who aren’t car guys and just got some money and bought a gen 2 not knowing about the R8 until walking into the dealership that same day. The gen 2 is nice but the gen 1 is on another level especially with looks. Get over comparing it to the gen 2. Me and several R8s owner I know one of which was the largest collector of them buy and sell out gen 2s we keep our gen 1s if that tells you anything. Why do you think the gen 2.0 only had a short run of 3 years (really like 2.5 years) before switching to the way more aggressive looking gen 2.5?? They would have kept that tho had Audi not turned eco stupid altho they finally learned that was a mistake. Then gen 1 was the same for 10 years with some headlight changes purely so they could be the first car to laser headlights that’s it the only change to a gen 1 beside switching auto transmissions. The 2.5 is better than the 2.0 but nothing can be the gen 1 it’s special and if you have a manual you are blessed regardless of miles! The gen 1 will be remembered it’ll go down in history as a great even if the gen 2 is faster! The gen 2 will be known sure but only as the follow up to a legend the gen 1 is a legend and legends never die!
I am part of that 90%. Proud owner of a 2009 V8 R8 manual, 40K miles when bought and like the car in this vid, has a valved Capristo exhaust. Personally even if I could go back and do the whole buying process again but with double the budget, I would have still gone with the V8 R8, and do all the mods that I want in one hit rather than save up one by one. I actually prefer the V8 sound over the V10. I totally get what you're saying and deep down I feel the same but aesthetics are subjective. If the owner is happier with the split blade design then let him be happy. Also it's only a wrap so it's just one peel away from going back to stock. It's not quite the sacrilege of say, buying a manual Gen 1 and doing an R-Tronic conversion lol.
Attention to detail is incredible
Just saw this car. Looks great
I’m loving that color 🔥 you said it wouldn’t disappoint!! Awesome build.
Super clean!!
This might be one of the coolest R8s in the metro
Why make the side blades look gen 2?! 90% of people including most R8 owners love the look of the gen 1 and in a perfect world would just have a gen 2 engine and suspension in a gen 1 with a manual option of course haha. The 10% is probably guys who aren’t car guys and just got some money and bought a gen 2 not knowing about the R8 until walking into the dealership that same day. The gen 2 is nice but the gen 1 is on another level especially with looks. Get over comparing it to the gen 2. Me and several R8s owner I know one of which was the largest collector of them buy and sell out gen 2s we keep our gen 1s if that tells you anything. Why do you think the gen 2.0 only had a short run of 3 years (really like 2.5 years) before switching to the way more aggressive looking gen 2.5?? They would have kept that tho had Audi not turned eco stupid altho they finally learned that was a mistake. Then gen 1 was the same for 10 years with some headlight changes purely so they could be the first car to laser headlights that’s it the only change to a gen 1 beside switching auto transmissions. The 2.5 is better than the 2.0 but nothing can be the gen 1 it’s special and if you have a manual you are blessed regardless of miles! The gen 1 will be remembered it’ll go down in history as a great even if the gen 2 is faster! The gen 2 will be known sure but only as the follow up to a legend the gen 1 is a legend and legends never die!
I am part of that 90%. Proud owner of a 2009 V8 R8 manual, 40K miles when bought and like the car in this vid, has a valved Capristo exhaust. Personally even if I could go back and do the whole buying process again but with double the budget, I would have still gone with the V8 R8, and do all the mods that I want in one hit rather than save up one by one. I actually prefer the V8 sound over the V10.
I totally get what you're saying and deep down I feel the same but aesthetics are subjective. If the owner is happier with the split blade design then let him be happy. Also it's only a wrap so it's just one peel away from going back to stock. It's not quite the sacrilege of say, buying a manual Gen 1 and doing an R-Tronic conversion lol.
Yoooo that actually looks really good for a 1st gen r8
Came out great, got to see it at cars and coffee
👀 that's my old baby 😂
Stock looks better
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