Look at this car and tell me you don't want it. Detroit motor show, January 2008. There was one car that everyone talked about, one car that caused fuss, unhealthy panting and hot sweats in the media, one car that dominated the news pages and the conversations of millions of petrolheads around the globe. It wasn't even a new model. It didn't even herald any proper technological revolution, or stage any ecological coup. It was just an Audi R8 with a big daft TDI engine. But what an engine, and in what a car. What a thing.
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