2022 Audi R8 RWD performance review: Still an exciting motoring experience

SINGAPORE - Driving the Audi R8 is like being in a mosh pit. It’s a noisy, intense, sometimes violent experience, and will undoubtedly piss those who aren’t in it, off. Even if you are wracked by environmental guilt after, there is no denying the silly smile plastered onto your face.

The whole idea for enthusiast drivers is that rear-wheel drive should offer a more engaged, plugged-in driving experience, at the expense of accelerative performance and the quattro safety net. Slipping into the low slung cabin requires effort, but isn’t particularly difficult – no high sills or awkward bucket seats to trip you up – which reflects the first R8 and its original ‘everyday-sportscar/911-competitor’ ethos.

But we’re also very glad the R8 holds onto the rotary Audi Multimedia Interface dial, since the R8 is most certainly the kind of car you do not want to drive with one hand while desperately mistyping ‘Telik Blanguh’. It’s an expensive song though, since the beast needs feeding. There’s no hybrid system, unless you count basic start-stop functionality, and we never saw anything better than 18.0L/100km.

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