Crucially, it’s got more torque than the R8, with a monstrous 442lb ft from 4000rpm, compared with the Audi’s 398lb ft at a heady 6500rpm. With no transmission parts to ditch, BMW’s M ...

Whatever Audi does, BMW can do better. Enter the world’s only production quad-turbo engine, that sadly departed with more of ...

The R8 had actually revealed itself three years before that, at the 2003 Geneva and Frankfurt shows. By that point, Audi had ...

Hopefully waiting for me should be John Barker with a Maserati GranTurismo S, Roger Green with a Jaguar XKR-S and Mike Duff in a BMW M5 ... loaned us a V8 Audi R8. If that isn’t the choicest ...