Originally Posted by srika

for the love of all things holy... i think this might be cause trouble with the law in some states - the charge: "illegal exhibition of braking"...

Originally Posted by JJaber06

Damn...

On a side note, I wonder if these are bigger than the ones on the new Bentley CGT

http://www.rsportscars.com/foto/12/contgt08_06.jpg

Originally Posted by Maximized

Overkill IMO....

Which leads me to wonder if auto companies are going to one up each other with rotor size, much like what happened in the last 5 years with rims.

Originally Posted by Will Y.

$150,000

Originally Posted by cazorp

I attended an Audi event today, a first hand experience of the upcoming 2008 Audi A4, which took place at Gotland Ring, a pretty new swedish race track situated on the island Gotland.



Imagine my surprise when I discovered that they had pulled the new, upcoming Audi RS6 to display for us (Yesterday it was journalists who attended the track, but then the RS6 was safely hidden away from them for obvious reasons )



We got a good first hand view, and had the opportunity to check it out and ask questions about it. Later they started it up for us to listen to the gutteral sounds of a V10 with twin turbos, which I can assure was something other than your average station wagon!



I'll try to upload the clip on to youtube.com and post a link here soon!



Now, that's not an A4 Avant..?





Hm, LED's.... Now this looks reeally promising..





I gotta get a sneak preview...Oh! Hello there huge, beautiful 19 inch of carbon thingy!





A few hours later... revelation, finally!







Beautiful in white (This is the car from Tokyo Motor Show, ie. not really a production car, since they are being produced from week 04 -2008)





Nice LEDs





Not much space left around the engine









This car is seriously good looking from every angle.. asking price just over a mil. swedish kronor (~ € 110 000/ $ 150 000 USD incl. taxes)





And oh, we drove the sh*ite out of the new 2008 Audi A4 on track, slalom and road as well.. 3.2q manual and 2.7tdi aut. was the ones I had the opportunity to test, really good, neutral with not much understeer at all!







We had a Swedish instructor from Audi Driving Experience in Germany, with his wife, who showed us ideal lines and helped us to get around Gotland Ring really fast after some practise. She had absolutely no problem at all dusting us all in a 2.0TDI while we were chasing her with 2.7TDI's.. nice to be beaten by a lady for a change..







Really nice of Audi to fly us over to Gotland Ring for a great day on the track, really appreciated!





Now, here's the vid! Idle + some revving..



URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2XBVdxnVg

Originally Posted by shrykhar

Well, the two are sort of connected: to get bigger brakes, you need bigger rims over them. So car companies aren't entirely unjustified in putting giant rims on their flagship cars -- as the cars get bigger and heavier, you need bigger brakes, and thus bigger rims as well.

Originally Posted by Maximized

I see your point, but the giant rims aren't for performance, instead they are there for aesthetics. You can fit a 14" rotor under 18" wheels. Like I said these are overkill.