2020 Audi R8 V10 Coupe: Start Up, Exhaust, Test Drive and Review

What's up everyone and welcome back to the channel. Today I made my way down to Audi Greenville. We're going to take a look at this 2020 Audi R8 V10 Coupe. Huge shout out to them for providing this car for me today. As you can see it's finished off in mythos black and it has an MSRP just over $203,000. Also in today's video I'm going to talk about a giveaway that we're doing so stay tuned for the end of the video for more details on that. The Audi R8 is a mid-engine supercar. In the back here we have a naturally aspirated 5.2 liter V10 only paired to a 7-speed S tronic automatic transmission. It does have steering wheel mounted paddle shifters as well. This engine produces 562 horsepower and 406 pound-feet of torque. You can opt for the performance version which will bump up the horsepower to 602. This is all-wheel drive, weighs around 3,700 pounds. It'll do 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds with a top speed of 201 miles an hour and with a fuel capacity of 21.9 gallons. You can expect to see 13 miles per gallon in the city and 20 out on the highway. The wheelbase measures 104.4 inches. It has an overall length of 174.3. The width is 76.4 and it has a height of 48.4 inches. Starting up front on the 2020 Audi R8 we're going to take a look at the headlights. These are of course LED with laser technology as well and this also has LED daytime running lights. The Audi R8 is the vehicle that started the DRL trend and even 10 years later it's looking just as good as when this car was introduced back in 2008. Moving over to the grille it has the traditional hexagonal shape grille that most Audis have. You can see parking sensors are on each side along with all of this mesh. The lower section is exposed for better airflow to the front mounted radiators as well as on both sides you can see more sensors and more of the mesh. It has a really aggressive appearance especially finished off in the mythos black. Everything is blacked out except for the chrome badge on the hood here and you can see there are nice lines coming down both sides as well. Moving to the side of the 2020 Audi R8 this has the optional carbon ceramic brakes. It's very cool to see that you can see there are gray calipers and then this has a 20 inch gloss black wheel with a 10 spoke design to it wrapped in a Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tire. So there's tons of performance with the tires along with the brakes being able to stop this vehicle especially if you're out on the track or something like that. As we work our way up to the mirrors they are body colored they feature the integrated turn signal and they are power folding. And then moving behind that we have the optional carbon ceramic Sigma blades. Obviously on both sides of the vehicle you can see the bodywork kind of splits it in the middle there so you have one on the top one on the lower section. This is my favorite part of the R8s. I owned an R8 if you're new to the channel and I had the carbon fiber on the sides. It is very nice I love seeing this design and having this option. As we make our way back to the front here you'll see in front of the carbon fiber is actually functional air inlets. This will provide airflow into the engine obviously since it's mid-engine so you can see the contours in the door kind of help guide that air to this air inlet and then obviously into the engine bay. So not only does it look cool on the door panel it's actually functional shapes as well to provide maximum cooling. You can see behind the front tires is the V10 badge and then the electronic handle to open up the door is nicely tucked away so you don't have anything exposed on the outside gives it a very clean design. And then we have large fender flares over the back tires great contours in the body lines as well giving it a fantastic look from the side. And finishing up in the rear we'll start off with the active rear wing. This will deploy at speed so it will go up and retract back down but there is a button on the inside that you can play with if you want to have it up or down at any time which is very nice to do. You can get a good look at that 5.2 liter V10 through the rear glass. On the back side here this does have LED taillights. You have your standard backup camera with four parking sensors. This has a very aggressive and wide appearance from the back. It is super low and super wide at the same time which kind of helps with that. And you can see with this lower mesh here there are heat extraction vents on both sides that gives you a good look into the exhaust as well. And then down below you can see the diffuser separating the dual exhaust. So that is going to wrap it up with the exterior walk around on the 2020 Audi R8. I actually reviewed one several months ago so this is the second one I'm taking a look at. I really like the black theme that it has going on with the black paint the black wheels. As we get to the interior here you'll see there's a completely different color change which is where we're going to head to. So with the vehicle locked I have the key in my pocket. I'm just going to place my hand up underneath into the electronic button. Hopefully you heard it automatically unlock. Then we can just pull on that and open it up. Starting off with the door panel you can see it's finished off in palomino brown leather. There's silver stitching that runs down below. This gives it a great contrast against the black exterior. You can see the aluminum release handle with your lock and unlock. This has automatic side windows. All of your power adjustments for the side mirrors as well. Right in front of that we have the front storage space so you can push on that to gain access to that. This does have a 13 speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system as well. You can see there's more carbon fiber so it carries on from the outside to the interior. You can see it around the air vent and there's a little bit of storage space down below as well. Once inside the 2020 R8 the brown leather extends from the door panels to these beautiful seats. You can see the stitching on them the bolsters. They're not overly aggressive they're good sport style seat. I really like how comfortable they are as well. You can adjust the front portion of the seat too that is electronic so using the buttons on the side of the seat. I also wanted to point out this has an Alcantara headliner. It's on the A pillars as well and it has nice stitching so the attention to detail even on the headliner is very very nice. Let's go ahead and move on to the steering wheel here. It has solid leather on the top and the bottom. The bottom has a nice flat bottom design to it as well with perforated leather to the sides. Good hand positioning with the paddles easily accessible on both sides. You have a lot of buttons on here like your engine start stop button off and to the right side, your drive select, your navigation, bluetooth. You have some other buttons that will control the center screen which I'll get to here soon. And then to the left of the steering wheel you have all of your headlight controls. You can see the carbon fiber trim extends all the way around the center console area here. There's more leather and stitching just above the center screen and then the leather continues on the entire dash. Very nice look. And then coming back to the center screen this is the 12.3 inch virtual cockpit. You can see off to the left side however you have the engine temperature and the fuel gauge on the right side and then right in the middle is all of your digital information. So using those buttons on the left side of the steering wheel if I go to drive select we can control between comfort, auto, dynamic, and individual. You can also hear the exhaust note change once I go to dynamic there it gets a little more aggressive. And then using the other buttons on the steering wheel we can scroll through a lot of information. You can look at your tire pressure, your g-meter, you have your engine data so power and torque along with your music. You have your phone when that is paired along with the navigation. You can also zoom in and zoom out which is nice to see. And then if I click on the view button we can bring that tack up to the center. You have your miles per hour right in the middle and then your nav now is off into the left side. You can still scroll through all that information that you saw but you can easily go back between the two different settings. On the right side of the steering wheel you have your bluetooth and voice commands as I mentioned along with volume and scrolling for the radio. This button here is a customizable button so when you push on that you can control what you'd like it to be whether it's the radio media showing your traffic or controlling some light. So it's very nice to have that. You can also see there's more carbon fiber around the entire gauge cluster gives it a very nice look matches nicely with the carbon fiber to the sides. And then as we make our way to the center more carbon fiber around two air vents gives it a really clean look. This has heated seats for driver and passenger obviously. And then you have the three floating climate controls right in the center I think it gives it a really cool look. You have the fan speed off into the left your temperature in the center and then where you'd like the air to go on the right side. You can also click on these buttons for other various controls along with some other defrosters and off is right in the center down below. There's more leather down in the middle here we have a nice hidden compartment. There's two 12 volts and auxiliary port and a 12 volt along with a wireless charging port on one side. So very nice to be able to hide your phone away have it charging and it won't slide throughout the interior. Just behind that we have traction control your hazards you can turn on and off your parking sensors along with controlling the wing right behind that we have the shifter. So if I go ahead and pull on the trigger go all the way up into reverse you'll see the backup camera light up the sensors are on obviously with the curb there but it gives you a great visual to what's behind you. We can bring this all the way back into drive and then park is just on the back side. Off and to the right is your power and volume for the radio all of these will control the center screen as well so if you don't want to use the buttons on the steering wheel you can go to your navigation your phone radio media you have a rotary dial in the center. So right now I'm going to click on the home button and you'll see it will come to this layout here we have the media radio your sound any messages and you can go into vehicle as well just by using the rotary dial. So you can control everything again if you don't want to use the buttons on the steering wheel you can look at things like your lap times your lap stats drive select you can go into. Electronic parking brake is just behind that with even more carbon fiber surrounding everything. As we make our way to the center armrest I'll just push this button on the side and that reveals two cup holders so you have two cup holders for this vehicle and then taking a look at the glove box you definitely have a lot of storage space for anything that needs to go there. We'll go ahead and take one last look at these seats very nice design to them and they match well with the Alcantara headliner you can see the same pattern running throughout that and then you have your dome lights and some garage door buttons up in the center. And then behind the seats you do have a shelf here with a net there and then a CD player down in the middle this is very usable storage space from personal experience I've been able to put a lot of clothes and other items like that in the back so it's nice that you have that interior storage space. The last thing we'll take a look at is the front storage space I can use the button on the key fob or the one inside on the driver door obviously and we can walk up to it there's a nice grab handle just up underneath the Audi logo there you can see it has a good size to it and this reveals about eight cubic feet of storage space you have a net on both sides along with one up top there's a 12 volt down below there you do have a good amount of room for two backpacks and some other things around them so it's very nice to have a mid-engine vehicle with usable front storage space. All right so getting behind the wheel of the 2020 Audi R8 this is the second one that I've driven aside from my own so it's always nice to be behind the wheel of an R8 huge shout out again to Audi Greenville for letting me take this out it's such a phenomenal vehicle to drive every time I'm behind the wheel of it it just excites me everything is so nice on the inside and it has the power to back it up it is such a fun car to drive we're going to go ahead and put it over into manual mode I'm going to switch it to dynamic mode because when you drive a vehicle like this you have to have it like that we'll go ahead and give it a little bit of gas here it hugs these turns so well even accelerating you can feel the bumps in dynamic mode it's going to make it a little bit more of a stiff ride for sure but if you're driving this every day pop it over into comfort and the bumps go away it's very nice how you can have that drivability and just take it to work and have a nice comfortable ride or if you want to go on some back roads put it in dynamic drop a couple gears oh it sounds so good at the same time it's not overly aggressive loud but it has that nice v10 rumble that you would expect even on the downshifts here oh yeah the paddles are super responsive as well as soon as you click on them you're into the next gear or you're downshifting very responsive I love how they're positioned right there now let's move on to the general visibility what it's like being behind the wheel of a mid-engine supercar what's the visibility like obviously from my face forward everything is very good you have small a pillars gives you a lot of visibility you can actually see between that and the passenger mirror there oh yeah oh this handles so well so you have plenty of visibility out of the front rear-facing visibility is really not all that bad I have a clear view right now out of that back glass so if there are any cars behind me I can easily see them and of course my side mirrors are going to help me as well over your left shoulder there's a little bit of a blind spot over your right shoulder you have that glass that second glass yes there's two two windows in a two-door vehicle you have the one that's on the driver door here and then there's a little one right in the back but that one is actually functional from personal experience even driving my own every single day I really like having that window I can easily see back and on this side of this pillar here so that way I can easily see if there's a car over there so while it's kind of hunkered down in the back it's actually pretty easy to see you can get used to it and drive this car every single day but let's move on to all of the interior materials as you saw earlier before driving it everything on the inside is what you would expect in an r8 with the leather especially this brown interior against the black exterior comment down below do you like that combo I think it's really nice it makes the car pop just a little bit more make it a little bit more unique since it doesn't have a full black interior so I really like that aspect I love all the carbon fiber one thing that is very cool is the front portion of this little area that goes around the gauge cluster it's a little more it has a more of a matte finish on the front portion of the carbon fiber that helps in reducing glare so coming through the windshield obviously on carbon fiber it glistens really really bright if you haven't if you've ever experienced that and so the front portion of that being matte allows the glare to be severely reduced which is really nice and helpful when driving obviously let's go ahead and downshift a little bit in dynamic mode I have the tach right in front of me here with the speed limit and what gear I'm in along with the live power and torque readout so that's very cool to see we got some pops in that exhaust definitely sounds really good we're gonna go ahead and do one last acceleration that is that is pretty quick everything is so smooth too you can barely feel the shifts which is really nice to see or feel I should say like next gear next gear next gear and just like that well guys I think that's going to wrap it up once again huge shout out to Audi Greenville for providing this vehicle for me today definitely check out their website that'll be in the description below also don't forget we are giving away a GoPro for the month of January all you have to do to enter is be a subscriber to the channel and comment on videos we're going to pick the video that has the most comments and pick a random winner from that video so commenting on a video is an entry into being able to win the GoPro so the more comments the more entries you get so definitely hit that notification bell and stay tuned for our daily uploads and your chance to win a GoPro I'll see you guys in the next video