What Not to do whilst Test Driving an Audi R8

[CarMadMike]

In the league table of 'really bad things to do on your Audi R8 test drive', this has to be right up there with 'selling it as collateral in a shady drugs deal' and 'attempting to smoke it'.

This is a lake/pond/dyke somewhere near Woerden in the Netherlands (no, we're not making the dyke joke. Grow up). And yes, that lump of metal and carbon fibre in the middle of it is a brand-new Audi R8, as photographed by Dutch blog site http://www.autojunk.nl.

The R8 was deposited into its watery grave by an as-yet-unnamed 33-year-old Dutchman, who turned up at his local Audi dealer to take the V8 supercar for a quick test drive. A quick spin.

According to police reports, he caught a bump at about 80mph and proceeded to spoon the R8 straight into the pond.

Nobody was hurt in the incident, but we'd imagine that the driver's pride is looking as battered as the R8's sidepod.

Don't feel too bad, mate. You're not the first man to test the aquatic capabilities of a supercar...

 

 

 

 

 

Lmao!

[Guest RB26DETT]

owner: "oh, it's not a bloody hummer."

[SLRRR]

lol

 

SLRRR

[CarMadMike]

owner: "oh, it's not a bloody hummer."

 

Nah, More like:

 

"Its all your fault dear, i told you that rinspeed Scuba sounded like a good idea"

 

:twisted:

[Car Freak]

Oh piffle. That's gonna ruin the leather!

[Pherelas]

Should have got the diesel version, would have been fine.

 

 

 

 

ish.

[YeOldeTDUMan]

have you noticed what they've fixed the strap to to pull it out of the water ...

 

they've fixed it to the spokes of the front wheel ...

 

don't they realise spokes can't take much lateral force !

[The Queen]

Ouch, thats a nasty way for a car to end up.

[Mb]

I knew it already, found it quite amusing.

[AdamFraser]

have you noticed what they've fixed the strap to to pull it out of the water ...

 

they've fixed it to the spokes of the front wheel ...

 

don't they realise spokes can't take much lateral force !

 

Indeed. But it might be the only access point they could get hold of, probably because the towhook is sumberged in water. Just hope the wheel nuts are toqued high enough :)

 

When we had to pull an STi out of a ditch we managed to get it round the towhook, but when the car is underwater its a bit more difficult.

[Pherelas]

have you noticed what they've fixed the strap to to pull it out of the water ...

 

they've fixed it to the spokes of the front wheel ...

 

don't they realise spokes can't take much lateral force !

 

Blimy one just realised that, couldn't they have put it right round the wheel or somthing. One and a half tons plus the drag of the water through one spoke. Could even smash the frount window and use the A pillar.

[Gunned_Down666]

shame to see such a nice car end like that

[TDU 505]

If i had one wish, i wish that every supercar thats destroyed, burned, crashed, driven into water and etc would appear in my carpark in perfect condish :D

[Gunned_Down666]

If i had one wish, i wish that every supercar thats destroyed, burned, crashed, driven into water and etc would appear in my carpark in perfect condish :D

 

+1 rep for that mate

[eleKtro]

No longer an R8, but a

R8-off

 

 

 

 

Get it? When you crash a car you say "I wrote it off" so this would be a "right off" 8 sounds like "ight" in a sentence when used correctly, sorry boredem got the best of me. :(

 

[Iced_Bullet]

What's a rate off? :p

 

<3 ;)

 

Good joke! +rep if I can.

 

Oh, I can't.

[eleKtro]

I knew you would find it funny my Peni friend! <3 ;)