R8 V10 'Ring on Fire!

[harryo2b]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/audi-r8-v10-future.html

Uh oh! :lol:

BTW, hope this isn't STAN

[Ghostbat]

Haha. Slightly embarrassing but I guess stuff like that happens during testing.

[TopGearNL]

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=806729#806729

Third page :wink:

[Schwalbe]

I always knew the R8 was hot !!! :onfire:

BTW, we can see another reason why car manufacturer proceeds many tests which delay the launch of production cars...just in case. :wink:


Is that the actual frame of the car?! It burned completely.

Not entirely, but the exterior panel are made in aluminium and this material melt at 650 degrees centigrade.

[Schwalbe]

^^^^^^No the steel Roll cage kit isn't standard on R8s, but you can easily see it on those R8 prototype pix like many cars tested on the Ring.

[stmoritzer]

this is indeed a very hot car :mrgreen:
Thanks schwalbe for the comments.

[TopGearNL]

They say German Cars are the best build cars today.

Looking at these images that thought makes me quite scared :shock:

[Skaala]

same thing happens with the A and S8's if they are set are set on fire..... there was a car in Oslo a couple of years ago that caught fire due to a service mishap, and the firecrew had to wait for it to melt down before trying to put it out :(

[silentm]

they probably had to wait for it to melt down like Skaala said. if you shoot water into a molten metal it's so hot that the water vaporizes so fast that there is a huge explosion.

it's rather dangerous ;)

[RC45]

My fathers A6 caught fire last year, and all the aluminium and plastic bits pretty much burned up to nothing.

[TopGearNL]

^^ Well there was a fire in 1996 in the The Channel Tunnel with a freighttrain and the heat was so intense that some of the trains huge wagons with trucks in it just melted away! :shock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel_fire