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"  &amp;quot;The blending of Italian and German is a superb thing,&amp;quot; states our intrepid Detroit Editor, Shaun Bailey, who penned a of the all-new mid-engine sports car in our April 2007 issue.   What he was referring to was the car&amp;#039;s overall well-thought-out-and-executed handsome and useful interior, clever magnetically adjustable suspension, 420-bhp V-8 engine sourced from the company&amp;#039;s RS4 high-performance sports sedan, and interesting if somewhat conservative sheet metal (German) working in concert with an outstanding 6-speed paddle-shift manual gearbox (Italian, from wonderful ).   Bailey was won over in a big way when he evaluated this Teutonic 2-door. &amp;quot;The craftsmanship, performance, exotic-ism and near perfection of this street car, combined with the history of the R8 race car, are going to make this newest Audi a winner,&amp;quot; he says.   If ever an exotic car with a price tag well north of $100,000 could be called a bargain, the Audi R8 just might be it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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