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Darlene! My 10th grade girlfriend! Elegantly commemorating the place where our love began...

I swear I meant to say hello, but I got distracted by a wicked little German reclining nude nearby:

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If you haven't seen the R8 in person yet, I'm here to tell you that it makes everything else in the automotive world appear Edsel-ish by comparison. It looks like a Gallardo had a procreative threesome with a 911TT and your favorite Hot Wheels car. Standing at the driver's door, I was sure I could lean on one leg and touch the taillight, then on the other and touch the headlight. I tried to tuck it in my watch pocket and leave, but security stopped me at the door. It makes the Darlenes of the world ooh and aah. It makes a C4S look stodgy. The crowd around it was usually four deep while 3 Lambos sulked in solitude 50 feet away.

I also sat in a new A8 and thought again how far ahead of everyone else Audi is in building interiors. The Lexoids look early 90's inside, entirely deserving of gold badging on the exterior, and even the MB CLS and S550 cockpits, decent if you've never been in an Audi, look overdone and under-realized by comparison.

For your amusement, the dash of the Infiniti G37, a car I once thought, from a distance and its' great reviews, that I might be willing to own. $43K for dials from a gaming arcade:

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Yikes. Let's close on a high note...

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Audi-Sav

Nicely done with the past/future metaphor.

iab

Very nice write-up!

BAEL

Very classy lady.