Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £78,300 to £78,300
Purposeful, modern appearance, convincing performance, excellent ride/handling balance.
Not quite as involving as it should be, poor visibility, lack of storage space.
Audi has scored a direct hit on the supercar establishment with its first shot. Not perfect, but exceptionally capable and very, very desirable.
It may be some time before Euro NCAP gets around to crash testing a car with a build of just 3,000 units per year, so independent safety data on the R8 is thin on the ground.
However, Audi did provide a full cutaway model of the R8 and I can vouch for the immense solidity of its construction. There are, of course, four airbags on board and considerable side impact protection in the doors.
