It's the Audi R8 supercar with a soft-top roof. And if you're now braced for all the usual complaints about super-spiders (or indeed spyders) being heavier, floppier and less precise than a hard-top super car then, stay tuned. We'll get to the truth in that in a bit. But let's not take this R8 too seriously because this car is mainly about one thing: NOISE. Yes, replete with the same wondrous 5.2-litre naturally aspirated V10 in the middle as the V10 hard-top , but no hard-top between you two getting intimate , this is a venue to experience one of the world's great engines enjoying its final gig before the suits pull the plug. Or, rather, plug it in. The successor to the R8 will, Audi has confessed will be fully electric. So this is less of a car, more of a hearse for the awesome V10 that's been in the R8, Lamborghini Gallardo and Huracan for a couple of decades. Here, it's in very fine form indeed.
