<![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> I saw an R8 driving up the 710 here in LA with a giant bashed-in hole in the rear bumper. I wept a little bit, but not as much as I wept when the crappy-camera-phone pictures didn't come out well...I want a hat tip!!

Garebear

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> What's left of that thing would make a sweet desk for my office.

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> 1) Lambo-flambe.
2) Audi learns lesson, installs 847,392 radiators on Veyron, none burn
3) Audi forgets lesson
4) R8-flambe.

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> @PlatformHoon: oh, don't think i won't...

smokyburnout

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> @smokyburnout: Just put an Aluminum can in the fire place and watch with amazement...

RoninianHoon

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> Are you sure that isn't a rebodied Fiero?
[I'm so ashamed]

biminitwst

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> @Shapeshifter:
"Low mileage, NEW ROOF!"

Always check the carfax report...


Where is the "Save The R8s!" t-shirt guys! Now that's a cause I can wear a t-shirt in support of.

Adam

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> I've heard that Audi is planning some changes to the R8 after the 2 burn incidents. The first major change to be incorporated is the automatic burner in the front end. The purpose of this is to ensure the corporate schnoz burns evenly with the rest of the car, helping obscure the car's identity to casual onlookers.

tony-e30

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> @busessuck1: er, not quite. Early TTs had a habit of careering off the road backwards which Audi blamed on over ambitious owners but they still did a recall which tweaked the rear suspension and added the "spoiler" on the cars rump. It was an expensive exercise but nowhere near bankrupted them and of course the TT went on to become a hugely successful model

rognbrow

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> Didn't the same thing happen to early TTs, and that almost had Audi bankrupt?

busessuck1

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> Wow, that car is toast...

Now on EBAY!

"Audi R8, low mileage, slight fire damage. No picture at this time (sorry). Not sure if it runs."

Shapeshifter

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> This related to flameable airfilters?

superbmtsub

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> Thin aluminum melts pretty readily. If you put a beer can in a decently hot camp fire, it ends up a puddle in the ashes. I'm pretty sure you can figure out how I know that.

dculberson

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> This reminds me of all those pictures of Lambos burning to the pavement. Hmm....

SonomaSteve

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> They tested the R8 at Nurburgring to see how well it would burn.

@smokyburnout: I think it's just that the high-quality petrol owners of these cars use burns VERY hot.

Collins1

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> @rgseidl: The Audi is without question Aluminum -- hence our running joke, Aluminum und Schteel!!!!!.

The F430 is also bodied in Aluminum.

Jonny Lieberman

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> I believe both of those cars use an all-carbon fiber body shell. If so, the material will burn rather than melt.

rgseidl

]]> <![CDATA[Nooooooo!!!! Audi R8 Goes Up In Flames, We Cry]]> ive seen this happen to a ferari f430 too. does the bodywork melt away because it's made of a metal with a low melting point, or what?

smokyburnout

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