Awesome weekend of driving around the Scottish borders, amazing roads and extremely quiet too, covered circa 700 miles and burnt around £300 in fuel. 
R8 is such a great all rounder, best sound track for sure, certainly not the fastest the GT4 easily has the legs on it, but it has a real sense of speed and acceleration when your on it but when cruising also hides speed, which is quite an accomplishment, it is terrible on fuel though, lol. First day was not so bad, lots of motorway/dual carriage way and then fast A/B roads, days average was 20mpg.
Second day I lead for first part of stint so I drove like I was on a track day, averaged around 10mpg, lol, decided after leaving everyone behind apart from GT4, it was best we both re-locate to the back of the pack and go at a more steady pace, by the time I got home after a full day of driving including the the run down M6 to home, average was 17mpg. So yeah it drinks the fuel but the smiles are plenty and even with driving from 9am to 8pm not a single ache, the bucket seats are superbly comfortable, the ride is fantastic in soft mode for poor roads, still OK in sport mode, gear change superb, sound track intoxicating and just a good fun car to blast around in. Consider what they cost now, have to say they are somewhat a bargain as 40k gets you a very good manual example with low miles and if you want the performance buy the V10. But as I said to others in the group for me to experience the same enjoyment in a V10 I'd had been going another 20-30mph quicker to get same enjoyment and in a Gen2 (Huracan) the speeds would have been even higher again. Beauty of the V8 and a manual is I can drive it really hard, enjoy it and am not worried over my license.
It is also nice to have one in such a rare specification that makes it a truly unique example and as such it gets a lot of attention.
R8 is such a great all rounder, best sound track for sure, certainly not the fastest the GT4 easily has the legs on it, but it has a real sense of speed and acceleration when your on it but when cruising also hides speed, which is quite an accomplishment, it is terrible on fuel though, lol. First day was not so bad, lots of motorway/dual carriage way and then fast A/B roads, days average was 20mpg.
Second day I lead for first part of stint so I drove like I was on a track day, averaged around 10mpg, lol, decided after leaving everyone behind apart from GT4, it was best we both re-locate to the back of the pack and go at a more steady pace, by the time I got home after a full day of driving including the the run down M6 to home, average was 17mpg. So yeah it drinks the fuel but the smiles are plenty and even with driving from 9am to 8pm not a single ache, the bucket seats are superbly comfortable, the ride is fantastic in soft mode for poor roads, still OK in sport mode, gear change superb, sound track intoxicating and just a good fun car to blast around in. Consider what they cost now, have to say they are somewhat a bargain as 40k gets you a very good manual example with low miles and if you want the performance buy the V10. But as I said to others in the group for me to experience the same enjoyment in a V10 I'd had been going another 20-30mph quicker to get same enjoyment and in a Gen2 (Huracan) the speeds would have been even higher again. Beauty of the V8 and a manual is I can drive it really hard, enjoy it and am not worried over my license.
It is also nice to have one in such a rare specification that makes it a truly unique example and as such it gets a lot of attention.
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