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04-09-2007, 02:35 PM
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R8 V10 'Ring on Fire!
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04-09-2007, 02:41 PM
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Haha. Slightly embarrassing but I guess stuff like that happens during testing.
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04-09-2007, 03:10 PM
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04-10-2007, 12:25 AM
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I always knew the R8 was hot !!!  nfire:
BTW, we can see another reason why car manufacturer proceeds many tests which delay the launch of production cars...just in case. 
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Originally Posted by mrmojo77
Is that the actual frame of the car?! It burned completely.
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Not entirely, but the exterior panel are made in aluminium and this material melt at 650 degrees centigrade.
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04-10-2007, 02:43 AM
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^^^^^^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.
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04-10-2007, 04:02 AM
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this is indeed a very hot car 
Thanks schwalbe for the comments.
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04-10-2007, 10:05 AM
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They say German Cars are the best build cars today.
Looking at these images that thought makes me quite scared :shock:
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04-10-2007, 02:45 PM
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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 
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04-10-2007, 03:45 PM
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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
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04-10-2007, 11:41 PM
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My fathers A6 caught fire last year, and all the aluminium and plastic bits pretty much burned up to nothing.
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04-11-2007, 06:09 AM
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^^ 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
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