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- [Narrator] Audi was tasked with doing the impossible,
building a followup to the most popular Audi ever made,
the impressive and exciting R8.
Guess what, they did it.
Packing even more power from its mid mounted,
free breathing 5.2 liter V10,
the 602 horsepower wild child
uses its quick shifting 7-speed dual clutch
and all-wheel drive system to produce hypercar numbers,
and what numbers they are.
With launch mode engaged, 0 to 60 happens
in a blistering 2.6 seconds.
The quarter mile is even more impressive,
10.6 seconds at 130.3 miles per hour,
making the RA V10 Plus the quickest
naturally aspirated car we've ever tested.
Of course, crazy numbers in the hands
of our testing team is one thing.
Producing big boy numbers on a deceptively punishing track
like Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is something else.
Let's watch and see what Randy makes of the big Audi.
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- The Audi RA V10 Plus has got
a little bit over 600 horsepower.
V10 engine is super smooth and pulls so strong,
and the higher the revs the faster it goes.
Transmission, same thing, incredibly smooth.
There are a lot of gears, which I like,
because it kept the engine in its optimum power band.
I went all the way up to 6th gear
on the front straightaways, 2nd to 6th.
Brakes are very strong.
It feels like a very refined experience.
The car feels very well put together.
But I found that the handling would vary a little bit more
between under steer on the way out
and over steer on the way in, than I would prefer.
I think the RA could actually be better in that respect.
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