They are unbreakable.....LIES....LIES...it must have been a Maxima...

 

I overheard the owner saying, "I guess the rumors about the tranny aren't rumors"

 

Say it ain't so , Say it ain't so

 

I 've been hearing this more and more. But since they're only $75K one can have several spare tranny an still be better off than the slow Audi R8.

 

The tranny is $20K apparently you end up paying R8 money for the bang for the buck Champion....LOL ...

 

Vincent, you and I need to hope that the R8 doesn't blow anything, ever, because every little thing for this car costs a fortune.

 

it wasnt ray was it?

 

I saw that car on the tow truck yesterday too.....


today, I didnt see, but several co-workers came back from lunch in Mill Creek area and said..." I saw a porsche going to beat hell down Bothell Everett HWY... was that you?"

(I got asked by 3 people....)

Of course I answered, "No, but we all drive like a**holes you know, fast, dangerous law breakers.... it's a requirement"

 

No biggie as long as you don't keep it past it's warranty expiration

The longest I've owned a car is 33,000 miles I think.

 

Yeah but if you sneeze in a dyno room with over 20 percent humiditiy, then you void the warranty....

 

Don't worry Norman the R8 won't blow unless you stick a Godzilla tranny in it. Even then Audi won't make you cough out $20K

 

33000 miles is like 15 ferrari years right?


I was asking the GTR owner prior to tranny failure if all the stuff I have been hearing and reading is true about the warranty being... shall I say... "easily voidable" and he said "I don't know... never had anything wrong with it and I have never once used launch control"

I will be curious to run into him again and see what the outcome is... it was silver and the owner lives in Mukilteo...

I will say this -- there were 2 at the track -- the failed one and the one that did not fail... and the one that did not fail was super fast all day long... possibly the fastest car there... amongst Porsches, Loti, Caterhams, Corvettes, a Noble, M cars of all shapes and sizes etc...

 

You didn't mention the Viper ACR and Atom out there with you. The driver of the black GT-R is very good with that car, everywhere around the track. Makes everyone else feel slow.

 

Putting it on a dyno voids the warranty, and I would imagine transmission failure on a race track would fall into that. Well the GTR makes non driving fools like me drive like Lewis Hamilton so its no surprise how fast it was around the track. I have heard in the hands of a capable driver the ACR is an absolute beast on the track.

 

Walking in Greenlake yesterday we came across a fully armoured 88 Chevy Citation and the owner was as out there as the car was..Sorry all I had was my treo for pictures but I think they get the point across