My Favorite Color Is You

My Favorite Color Is You

I used to own an Audi, so I'm on their email distribution list. I received an invitation from them to attend a Private Drive Event for their R8 at the Joule Hotel in Downtown Dallas. 200K depending on what options you got. Obviously there's no way in heck we'd be able to buy one of these cars in our lifetime, but we figured it would still be fun to attend the event and get the chance to drive one! The experience turned out to be even cooler than we expected it to be. We arrived at the Joule and they offered us drinks and snacks and we sat through a 15 minute orientation about the car. They told us what kinds of features it had, and then relayed how the drive event would go down. There were 8 people driving in our session, and then each person was allowed a guest. The driver and guest would be the only ones in the R8, and all 8 pairs of us went out on our drives at the same time.

We could've switched half-way through and I could've driven, but I was way too terrified to get behind the wheel of a car that expensive, so Meezy got double driving time. We were surprised at how they just set us all loose behind the wheel of these cars. We weren't on some secluded track, away from other drivers and the elements. We were right on I-35 in Dallas, amidst traffic at times, and even as it started raining. They had put walkie-talkies in each car so the professional drivers could stay in contact with us and let us know where we'd be heading next. Other than that, Meezy was pretty much free to drive how he wanted! It was really cool. I'm sure it looked a little odd to other drivers and people on the street to see 8 Audi R8s driving next to each other! Here's some pics of the experience, and a couple videos for a little taste of what it was like to be a passenger. Pregnant chicks don't make good car models? This was the group of us leaving the Hotel. And us getting on the highway. Man, I love the sound of that engine!

It`s hard to say exactly which is the beginning of Porsche story. It could be in 1950, when the famous Max Hoffman introduced the Porsche 356 to the United States. Or in 1948 when the first automobile to bear the name Porsche was introduced. But in order to understand Porsche鈥檚 heritage and its philosophy we need to go back to 1875, when, in September, at the home of a tinsmith in the Bohemian village of Haffersdorf, a son was born. His name was Ferdinand Porsche. Even if the 鈥淒octor鈥?is usually appended to his name, it is in essence honorary, since his only formal technical training was as a part-time engineering student in Vienna. By the age of 25, the young Ferdinand Porsche had entered the field of automotive design. His first car design was already accepted by Lohner & Co. of Vienna. Over the next 20 years, Ferdinand Porsche, the temperamental but brilliant engineer succeeded in associating with every major automobile manufacturer in Germany. At the same time, he designed a dozen of the most technically significant cars in history. Working for Mercedes-Benz, he helped develop the most revered Mercedes-Benz cars of all time: the SSK series.

For NSU, he designed Auto Union Wanderer and the Type 32, a precursor of the Volkswagen Beetle. After being dismissed from Mercedes for disagreeing with the firm's staid engineering policies, Porsche decided to establish what later became Porsche A.G.: his own engineering consulting group. The senior Dr. Porsche and his team were kept extremely busy. The consulting firm developed for Steyr (now the utility-vehicle wing of the Steyr- Daimler-Puch combine), the Austria luxury sedan, but it did not progress beyond the prototype stage. They worked a lot for Auto Union, now Audi: the company developed the Front, the world's first front-drive economy car. They astonished Auto Union with the mid-engine Grand Prix cars and their supercharged V-12 and V-16 engines which, together with Mercedes- Benz racers, dominated European auto racing for nearly a decade. After that, the firm created its best-known designs for NSU and Zundapp. The pair of prototypes was characterized by Dr. Porsche's patented torsion-bar suspension and a rear-mounted engine. Since neither company moved rapidly enough to manufacture the designs, Porsche sold the concept to the German government. Then, he oversaw the construction of a plant on Wolfsburg to manufacture the design. His drawings called the car the Type 60. The world came to know it as the Volkswagen Beetle. After the second World War, the Porsche Company started to create vehicles that beard its name, and so became knows world wide. Now, nearly a century later, Porsche became the marque and the family that created outstanding, often unique and surely lasting contributions to automotive engineering and design.

Both Audi teams pulled off true underdog wins. Clinching first and second place in the final moments of the race. The win at Long Beach follows closely on the heels of the team's first win of the season at St. Petersburg, Florida a little more than a week ago. Congratulations to both teams on their wins. Ingolstadt/Long Beach - In the 25th race of the Audi R10 TDI, the car scored a historic 1-2 victory at the Long Beach (California) round of the American Le Mans Series. After the success at St Petersburg a fortnight ago, the diesel-powered sportscar won a street race for the second time in a row. With Lucas Luhr/Marco Werner taking their personal as well as Audi鈥檚 second win in three races in 2008, the German works drivers extended their lead in the championship standings. 2 Audi R10 TDI in the early laps of the 100-minute race. When the German driver was due to hand the car over to his team-mate, he held second position.