I guess it's all fancy with its mid engine and fancy expensive light-weight parts and cool tranny, but why is it so slow? 0-60 in 4.6sec? For a 420BHP 4.2L V8, that sounds far from impressive. Is it because Audi is trying not to compete with their Lamborghini Gallardo or something? For the price ($109,000) it should be doing low 4.x sec 0-60 times or something. Even the Gallardo isn't that impressive with 4.1s 0-60.
I guess they make up for that in handling?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R8_%28road_car%29