Alex Roy reviews his dream car: the Audi R8 Blackbird

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Alex Roy reviews his dream car: the Audi R8 Blackbird

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Alex Roy reviews his dream car: the Audi R8 Blackbird

Posted Aug 13th 2008 1:29PM by Jonathon Ramsey
Filed under: Gadgets, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Tech, Videos, Supercars, Audi, Toys

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Alex Roy, currently locked in an M5 with our own Damon Lavric, recently got a video tour of a rather nifty Audi R8 owned by someone who insists he renames nameless. Codenamed Blackbird, the coupe is stuffed with enough gadgets to be a testbed for NASA's shuttle replacement, but don't for a second think the interior resembles a jungle of wires, screens and antennae: all the electronic gear is seamlessly integrated in a most impressive way. A sample of the wares in the blacked out supercar with the gunmetal gray blade include four GPS units, two radar detectors, police scanner, CB radio, kill switch for all rear lights, high-speed broadband Internet with Wi-Fi running on a tablet PC, power ports, takedown lights, a remote-controlled exhaust bypass valve, and -- get this -- a liquid-cooled infrasonic wave pulse generator. Apparently, you don't want to stand by that last item if you wish to have children. Follow the jump for the whole story in moving pictures. Thanks for the tip, Mike!

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Needs a little red light moving back and forth up front!
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That's a combo nerd/motorhead - gasm.

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