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First Drive: 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI

A new V10 engine makes the Audi R8 a serious contender for supercar supremacy.

By James Tate of MSN Autos

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The R8 5.2 FSI features a reworked front fascia with larger air inlets and an aggressive lower lip. The world's first all-LED headlamps are a hallmark of the V10-powered car.

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The 2010 Audi R8 http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adT...bing_11pxw.gif 5.2 FSI could be construed as a budget supercar — if such a thing exists. But you wouldn't know it from the performance, which is world-class.
The R8 is essentially a slightly detuned version of the Lamborghini Gallardo, but costs the equivalent of a second mortgage less. In the face of other, more expensive competition, the R8 5.2 FSI offers clinical precision in lieu of a boisterous personality.
Model Lineup
The R8 5.2 FSI comes in only one trim. Aside from the fantastic 10-cylinder engine, buyers get a laundry list of standard equipment. Audi http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adT...bing_11pxw.gif Magnetic Ride allows the driver to stiffen or soften the suspension, while the springs and roll bars have been specifically tuned on the famed Nurburgring racetrack in Germany to handle the extra weight and power from the new engine. Subtle exterior changes differentiate the 5.2 FSI from the 4.2 FSI, including the world's first all-LED headlights. High beams, low beams, daytime running lights and blinkers are all long-life diodes. A restyled front fascia and side skirts further the high-end uniform, and large, twin-oval exhaust tips let the world know this is the V10.
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Under the Hood
As fun as the gadgets are, the real news is in the engine bay http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adT...bing_11pxw.gif. Audi has shoehorned a tuned version of its direct-injection 5.2-liter V10 engine into the R8 engine bay. This is the same 10-cylinder mammoth nestled in the Lamborghini Gallardo, but with slightly less power — a fact that haunts you every time your right foot goes down. The 5.2 FSI produces 525 horsepower (105 more ponies than the V8 version) and 391 lb-ft of torque. Even more impressive, the 10-cylinder engine weighs just 68 pounds more than its little sibling.
The R8 5.2 FSI can run zero to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, and if you're brave enough, the car will carry you all the way to 196 mph. Those are figures good enough to put the car solidly in the company of Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche.
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Audi offers two gearboxes for the R8 5.2 FSI — a 6-speed manual and a somewhat dated automated manual gearbox, dubbed R tronic. The 6-speed manual transmission incorporates a metal gated shifter, which may give up a few hundredths of a second in shift time, but brings priceless personality and satisfaction to the R8 once again. The 6-speed R tronic gearbox is unquestionably fast — offering shift times in the 0.1-second range — but is a relatively dated single-clutch system.
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Both transmissions are bolted to a quattro all-wheel-drive system with a slightly modified torque bias — the 5.2 FSI defaults to 15 percent front and 85 percent rear, as opposed to 10/90 in the 4.2 FSI. Audi reworked the quattro system to account for the greater torque of the V10 engine. Despite the slightly reduced rear bias, there's plenty of rearward torque, allowing the rear end to be playful without all of the terror typical of overpowered lightweights.

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