Can You Really Daily Drive a Supercar - And Would You Want To? (ft. Audi R8 V10 RWD) 

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A year in to ownership of an R8 V8 I summarised my experience. May be of interest to some of you. In the end I owned the car for 2.5 years and 30,000 miles and total cost of ownership (including depreciation) was £14,093. I'll let you be the judge of whether that's good value. But even as a daily driver every single mile brought a smile. Show me the money Let’s start with the costs. One year of ownership and about 6,000 miles has cost £2,250 (a health check, 4 new tyres, replacement rear brake light and a £875 service) plus road tax and insurance costing £1,100 combined, plus fuel which I’d estimate has cost an eye-watering £2,300. So £5,650 all in. I’m clutching to the fact that’s less than £1 a mile, but it’s obviously a lot of money. And that’s without anything major needing replacing. The tyres I actually couldn’t find cheaper than the price Audi quoted. The rear brake light replacement was something like £230 and I felt Audi weaselled their way out of this being covered under the used approved warranty. High running and maintenance costs are thankfully offset by very little depreciation over the last year. So overall, it’s probably been cheaper to run than if I’d picked up a brand new A3, which would lose a lot of value over the first few years. No problems as a daily driver For a wide, low supercar/sports car it remains an easy daily driver. Visibility is good, there is no scraping over bumps/ramps/inclines if taken at sensible speeds. I had more issues getting a MK1 TTR over bumps than I have had with the R8 - the front splitter gives great clearance for this type of car, and none of the horror stories I’ve heard around Gallardos and the need for front-lift for speed bumps, car parks and driveways. Manoeuvrable at low speeds, and easy to place when parking. Rear parking camera superb. Go easy on the peddle and it feels more like 200BHP than 430BHP, and power delivery is smooth however heavy you are on the peddle, making it a civilised car to drive when you need it to be. It’s wide, and the doors are wide, and I’m pretty wide too - so you do have to think a little about parking spaces, but it has never stopped me from going somewhere or being able to park once I got there. It is thirsty though. Especially if you keep it a gear or two lower than it needs to be, to keep it in its peak power range and to get a howl from the engine. I’ve maybe averaged mid-teens. So get used to filling it up. Sense of occasion Time and familiarity with the car obviously means it doesn't feel quite as special as it did. But I still get exciting at the thought of taking it for a drive, I still take the long/fun route from A to B, it still makes me look back everytime I’m walking away from it. Dropping down low in to the seat feels great. The sound of the V8 remains something wonderful. More subtle, but (for me) far more special than trick exhausts on smaller engines. I love the ‘stealth’ look, in black - but admit that pretty much any colour makes the car look more special (and better to photograph!). Dealership experience The car was bought from the Audi used approved network and so has been looked after by Audi dealerships. They’ve been ok, but no stand out service. No more special than I experienced owning Toyotas or Peugeots. Reminders you’re driving something a bit different Struggling to source a tyre and find anywhere local outside of the dealer network able to change a tyre reminds you the car is relatively low volume and relatively unique. Halfords, Kwik-Fit, Black Circles, F1 Autocentres were all unable to help. And as far as I am aware not all Audi dealerships are set up to service the R8 (they need to be Audi Sport centres), and I struggled to find good independents familiar with the R8. Community Great online community via both r8talk.com and R8 owners club on Facebook, but a shame that there is very little in the way of R8 owners meets. I’m jealous of friends with Porsches and the incredibly active clubs, but obviously there are a few more 911s on the road than there are R8s. And just a little bit more history! But Audi forums like this are great. Public reaction I don’t like standing out. So I’d no desire to own this car to say “look at me, look at me”. It nearly put me off. The car does get noticed, but only in a positive way. I’m surprised by how many non-petrolheads know what it is, when they wouldn’t have a clue what model of Ferrari had just driven past. Public reaction has only been positive - I’ve had countless conversations at petrol stations with folk wanting to know a bit about the car, and no issues in traffic or being let out at junctions. Kids pointing and shouting "that's an R8" is lovely. Interestingly the car gets very little interest or enthusiasm at car meets, which I don’t mind - I’d rather spend the time looking around everyone elses cars than talking about my own - but whilst the general public seem quite interested in it (and know what it is) the car community seems less interested. and finally I ended up owning my R8 for 2.5 years and 30,000 miles and loved every single one of them. Highly recommended.

I daily drove my Exige 380 for most of last summer. I loved it and so did my chiropractor!

The amount of times you've driven through Long Melford while testing a car, I'm surprised I've never seen you

I had an early DB9 (as the 5th owner) as my ONLY car. Aside from spending a great many hours on my driveway with it redressing the multiple paint bubbles on EVERY body panel by hand with wet-&-dry and an airbrush, I would thoroughly enjoy it every single time I took it out! Admittedly being a disabled wheelchair user (and spending all those hours/days/weeks in maintenance!), I typically cannot claim to have made "daaily" use of it and James' comment about not driving your supercar every day for every purpose is especially valid in my case and this definitely helps keep up the "special" nature of your relationship. But that said, I still found myself ALWAYS wanting to spend/have spent more time behind the wheel!!!

Whoever was daily driving a caterham is definitely a bold individual🤣.. great video as always mate😎

2018 GT3, 991.2, fortunate to get an allocation and spec’d it myself. As of yesterday it has 30,000 km, 12 track days and is driven all year long in Alberta (yes, winter rubber) and Texas. It’s a thrill driving to Walmart or tracking it at MSR Houston or Castrol Raceway Edmonton. For those of us that love driving, in my opinion, the best way to get the most value from any car is to drive it a lot, and I do.

I was driving my 911 Turbo everyday for over a year. Enjoyed every minute

I think you definitely can. My only car for a number of years was an MR2 Turbo which is about as practical as the R8 & it was absolutely fine. Even got the two of us & a tent to Switzerland. I got a Celica GT-4 to replace it once I started a family :D

Yes I daily drive a manual 2012 R8 V10 and its no problem at all, I also think its one of the most comfortable cars I have owned. It really is the poor man's super car!

From 2011 to 2018 I daily drove a 996 C2 (43,000), then a 996 turbo (38,000 miles) and finally a 997 turbo (25,000). That's roughly 15,000 miles a year. Interestingly part of the enjoyment for me was the car becoming so familiar that at times it felt like an old slipper. But it always entertained and it always felt special. Just a different kind of special. My simple philosophy was you'll spend longer in a box than out of one, so don't drive one unless you have to. Still feel the same now. In fact after this whole pandemic thing even more so.

I daily my 996 Carrera 2. I do a lot of miles and sometimes it does my head in and I think I’m going to get an auto modern car but then I have a drive on a clear dry road and love it all over again

My XK8 is not a super car but it is a Super Car :) and the boy gets in the back as well. Bonus :)

Working from home and with 12 months of lockdown, some of us drive so bloody infrequently that yes, "daily driving" (i.e. every possible excuse) my 650s DOES still feel amazing every time! I have a 4 door backup car for other journeys with multiple people, suitcases and for shopping. You're right about the 2nd car bit. If only to avoid the sludge, salt and such. Enjoyable video as always. thanks.

My NSX was my sole means of transportation for something like a 3 year stretch. As quasi-supercars go it's definitely more practical than most, but beyond that you just get creative. I've gotten odd looks with a small stack of 8ft '2x4' lumber sticking out the passenger window....but the deck still got fixed.

Top point at the end about the specialness!! Excellent content 👌😍

The end of this video is such a fantastic point, perspective is HUGE. Also, the novelty of flashy cars wears off much quicker than the enjoyment of a good car. I sold my previous car after 2.5 years and 27k miles and genuinely never got in it without it putting a smile on my face. Due to lockdown I thought screw it I'll buy a Porsche and it's great, but I've done 3k miles in 6 months and that's about the limit of keeping the magic alive.

Yellow car in the thumb, red car in the vid, damn it James! :p

Agree completely about the overhangs, as driveway transitions can induce cringes when you hear the scraping. I've also slowly crawled over many a speed-bump while listening to the floorpan scraping. I'm now at the point where I do require at least enough ground clearance to avoid the speed-bump problems.

Completely agree. Brilliant summary. And it applies to almost all, even slightly spicy, cars.

I daily drive a 1st gen R8 V10 Plus. Your points about 'specialness' and becoming too familiar with the car are very valid. As you say the R8 is such an easy car to drive that it's quite easy to just forget you're not in an Audi A4 or something more 'normal', especially if you leave it in auto and just let it do its thing. The times that I have enjoyed the car the most have been after I have had a courtesy car for a day or two and then got back into it. Suddently the specialness has returned and I've realised how amazing it really is.

I did think about buying an Gen 1 R8, but the lack of practically and extra costs meant I bought a brand new TTS - which is still quick. Despite my endearing love for the R8, I don't regret my choice.

Driving them every day simply tarnishes the whole point of them. The Toblerone theory, if I may.. Eating a Toblerone every day ends up making you sick of them. Having one once a month can end up being a love affair. Curry, McDonald's, s£x... Fill the blank in as you wish.. They are meant to thrill and excite the senses. You don't want those senses dulled by repeat use. I remember a long time ago when I owned the original Audi TT. That WAS a sports car you could drive every day. But what was so different about the TT? Well.. It was actually a Golf. After that I owned a Honda S2000 (that I adored) and actually that wasn't too bad to commute in. But I was in my late 20s. They are built like German tanks and with a 4cyl engine and cam timing they weren't that expensive to run. Such wonderful duality in that car.. But would I do that experience now, closing in on 40yo? Probably not. I'd rather drive my Honda Jazz to work. But that's probably an age thing. Very, very few cars possess that duality. Maybe the TT still does? Maybe an M3 does? Haven't driven them. The 911 isn't bad as a daily (have experience there). But by god, they are noisy. I take it the 991 and 992 are even softer to live with than the 997. It has to be the best example of the car that can do everything. But taken to the other extreme, my recent Ferrari 360.. If you drove that every day, you'd be trimming months off your life. They are simply put, fucking annoying cars to live with. However.. On that perfect day, they are simply perfect. And that's how these cars should be used. In my humble op.

My neighbor daily drives a 2005 Ford GT every day in the summer and my colleague daily drives his Aston Martin DB11, even in the winter (I think that's insane but whatever), I wouldn't do it myself though. Even when I had sports cars I rarely drove them, I like my S-Class, I like comfort. LOL

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I daily drive my 350Z roadster. What keeps it entertaining is the fact you can take the roof down and it becomes a whole new experience. The other is I drive the wife’s Mokka and that really makes me happy to be back in the old Z!!

Daily driving anything makes you lose the "Sense of Occasion", being a hot hatch or a Chiron doesn't change that fact.

100% Agree. I daily drove my Exige for 3 years, it started to feel like the only thing special about it was being annoyed at car parks or worrying about it when not in the best neighborhood. I'd often drive my (at the time) girlfriend's FRS just to escape it for a "normal" car. Fast forward a couple of years and I've moved to Colorado and bought a LR4 to replace it as my daily. Now every time I take the Exige out it's an Event! And I've gained an off roader, so I get to enjoy even more driving experiences I hadn't before. I think you are right, but let the wife have the diesel Golf (or in my case Tiguan) and get yourself and off roader as your daily.

Another great video James. Daily driver was TTRS Roadster - the Mrs has pinched that. I now have an RS5 Cab - nice V8 as my daily -20mpg Still got the AM V8V which I use fairly often but not for work - it remains a special occasion But I couldn’t live with an old Golf

Brilliant video Jay 👍

I daily my F-Type - no choice really, given it's the one vehicle I own - and it pretty much does everything I could ask of a car. Boot space can of course sometimes be an issue, but as I don't have to regularly move around loads of stuff, or for that matter 3 passengers, I've been perfectly happy to both use it for my limited commute to work and obvs of course, enjoy it for what it is :)

My R8 V10 Plus is my daily driver. When I buy a special car I want to use it as and enjoy it much as I can not leave it in the garage as an “occasional” car. Whats the point if you hardly use it? However saying that I only do about 4000 miles a year. If I did a lot more then I would probably have a second car. I have had my R8 two years and have had no problems dailying it but then I’m single with no kids so the need for practicality is not an issue for me. 😂 Oh yeah and I have a motorbike if I fancy a break from the R8 but the R8 feels as special every time I drive it as it did the first day I got it.

I had an accident with my VW Polo a few summers ago, the car was unrepairable. Consequently, I was forced to use my Caterham on a daily base and I loved it :) Obviously, it was summer in the Alps and I rarely needed to close the roof. The experience would be much worse during any other period of the year.

I daily a shit 2004 fiesta through the week and the same shit fiesta on the weekend.

I think you hit the nail on the head James. We've had a few luxury cars over the years and used them daily. It's not until you get into something more "oridnary" that you realise how good your big old boat is. I would still prefer a Merc S class or Lexus LS to a Golf though. Not so sure would feel comfortable punting a Lambo or Ferrari around every day?

My Wife was daily driven to college by her Mum through Liverpool in Lotus Exige S1. This was one of the most compromised cars ever. To get in you had to contortions your body and the same getting out. The doors had open fully as well and they were very long. To drive through town must have been a nightmare as the engine was roughly tuned and cammy and loud as it was decatted. The ride was crashy over pot holes and you spent a large time looking for them and driving around them. Also other cars, buses or lorries either didn't see you or were to busy staring and get to close for comfort. You were also extremely low as your bum was nearly 6" from the floor, a splitter which was nearly scraping on the road so speed bumps were a nightmare. Visibility was pretty awful as well. But yet for 7 months this was driven as a daily for 40 minutes by Mother in Law!!! Ps I didn't mention this same car was driven to Southern Spain and back on the Cannon Ball!!

I would totally dive that thing every day. My commute to and from work is around 7000 miles a year and that thing could easily swallow my weekly grocery shopping. Pity I could never justify the purchase price. I'll just stick with my pos 1993 Jeep Cherokee I use as my commute beater. :D

I use my mclaren 720s as daily driver. Even used it to go to pick stuff up from a builders merchants. Though through the pandemic I don’t go out any where near as much as I did pre pandemic.

I daily’d a 2009 R8 V8 coupe manual for a year. Found it OK to live with, however, the gearbox would end up being quite frustrating in or around town or in heavy traffic

I currently daily a 987.2 Cayman manual. And previously dailyed a 370z, Audi TTS, NC and ND Miata. All great and comfortable dailys. The Miata can be a struggle on 40 degree days when its parked outside all day and the aircon struggles to keep up in stop start traffic. But overall its worth it, you just need to not have kids if you only own 1-2 cars.

I will not class the R8 as super car, rather a sports car with super car looks, it’s just on the boundary of sports and super car IMO.

Up to the point! I have a humble mx5 and don't want to drive very often because it loses the sense of occasion doing so.

Dailyed my 12c from brand new to 27000 miles😬 it was my only car for about a bit more than a year. To be honest, looking back to it, it was totally worth it.... the ride is rough no doubt but here’s the thing, I use to drive to Costco and pick up bulk groceries in that car and if u willing to over pack ur passenger seat a bit it fits everything in.

Nice one James. I guess the main point is do you have more than 2 people and would you have a baby on board. If no anyone could easily daily dive an R8. I will be daily driving my Esprit once it’s back on the road again....

I live in the EEUU so it’s a different metric but I have a Ram 2500 with a heavy duty lumber rack that gets between 9 and 10 mpg in town and up to 17 mpg when I drove it across the Dine one time. And I have a 991.2 C4S. Each has its purpose and each is its own special thrill. I never haul gravel or steel pipe in the 911. I never take twisty, damp mountain roads in the Ram.

I live in Southern California. I’m lucky enough to daily drive my 2020 R8 quadtro base... 4 miles each day to the hospital. When I have to work at a surgery center without a covered parking garage, I take my Ford F-150 lifted truck. Oddly enough, I get slightly better Fuel Economy with the Ford. If I find myself not really appreciating the supercar, I’ll take JayEmm’s advice and only take the Ford.

That first shot is a whole new definition of on the Dutch

I love my R8’s, but when I need something a little more”practical “, I have a tuned TT RS. Works well for me, but when comfort, power and four doors are necessary it’s the AMG GT 63 S.

I bought my Maserati Gransport as a daily drive a few months ago. Whilst it has been great fun, it’s incredibly hard work and I could not recommend it for most people. I will be returning to my XJ8 for the work commute

Thank you J.

I had a S2000 as my only car for 5 years, did 80,0000 miles in it. I know it’s not a super car, but it shares many of the impracticalities, two seats, no boot etc. I was very happy using it every day, but you are right James, it does lose that special feeling. Replaced the S2000 with an..........S2000 which I only used at weekends and it was special again. I’d rather have an expensive, impractical, hardly use weekend toy in the garage, and an old banger on the driveway than one very nice powerful, plush, autobahn barge for everyday use.

spot on re driving your "super" or "special" car daily. You get used to it, the power, the sound etc.. it kinda gets boring. I have a daily and an s2000 for fun. Driving the S2000 once every few days feels a lot more special than driving it daily which I did for a few months.

I did think about buying a facelift Mark 1 R8 as an 'everyday', but the lack of practically and extra costs meant I bought a brand new TTS - which is still quick. Despite my endearing love for the R8, I don't regret my choice.

Interesting video

Hey Jay I really like your reviews for sure!! I have a question I am hoping you can help me with. I am looking at 2017 R8 and a 2012 mclaren mp4. Of those two cars which would you pick?

The Audi R8 V10 manual the answer is YES and YES. :)

Very niceeee

I daily drove a 1978 Trans Am for 5 years...found in a barn, repaired by a club...I had the rest fixed over the years...till she was too tired anymore, 462 cui/7.5 l of American thunder

Well, it's not a supercar, but it's a BMW Z4, and I am not daily driving it, mainly for two reasons. First, the car is in near-mint condition, and I would lose my mind if someone would dent it on the parking of a supermarket, second, as you said, if you drive a car that low, you can forget about parking garages, I just can't go over the ramp in the parking garage. My solution is to create a driving route, if I need to do some work and I know where I will be parked, I take Z4, and if I don't, Mini One is perfect for the city. :) So our Z4 is often from Monday to Friday under a protective cover, waiting for the weekend, and Mini is on the road. As you pointed, the perfect driveway is Golf diesel and super car.

I used to daily drive a 1967 6v Beetle, it was a super-car to look at but a piece of krap to live with.

Think I'd have a supercar + a hot hatch for a daily. I've not driven any supercars but like you say I think it would be a bit less special if the supercar was my main daily. I would still want to use it regularly, but not all the time. I think some of the downsides would start annoying me. I would have something enjoyable but dependable and practical/comfortable as a main daily car, probably a Fiesta ST. And then I'd have the supercar (my choice would be a Nissan GT-R) to drive whenever I feel like it. That being said I know too many people who have a supercar for their "weekend car" and it never ever seems to make its way out of the garage. My friend has an R8 V10 and it's maybe been driven twice in the past year. Which I think is sad and a waste of money. So a balance somewhere between the two...

Best combination almost diesel a4 estate and a super car for me 😆

I get the impression you really like these R8s Jay - do you see yourself buying one at some stage? Perhaps when you’re bored with the 550 Maranello!

I daily drive my S2000, and it's great, come rain or shine :)

03:44 yeah, I was shocked by how low the insurance was for my R8! Of course, this was part of a multicar policy which results in a discount.. but still, I wasn't expecting it to be that cheap!

Not a supercar, but I daily my 987.2 Cayman S. Easily done too!

I reckon a nice RS6 and an R8 or 911 or such like are the perfect practical daily combined with that driver experience appeal.

Junction at 4:57 is a bugger to navigate whatever you are driving

I imagine you'd quickly get bored of the car, whatever it was. Far better to buy yourself an ordinary car as well, and use that for the tedious journeys we all have to do: motorways, trips to the supermarket, etc. And that way you won't worry about parking dings (plus it'll be nicer on a motorway).

I prefer my 60 hp Skoda for daily driving and something special for the weekend... EDIT: I can see we are on the same page on this.

I drive a Tesla model S as a daily and have a boxster S for the fun days. Awesome combination I think.

I daily drive a manual 986 Boxster S. OK, not quite a supercar, but it is a low, mid-engined 2-seater and genuinely a high performance vehicle. It will swallow a month's worth of groceries and do 30+ mpg on the motorway (probably more once I retrofit cruise control). I'm not saying I've never scraped the nose, but speed humps are not an issue and the ride quality is just fine even on broken pot-holed tarmac, now that I'm on refreshed suspension. 130k miles and no creaks or rattles. The cabin noise can be a bit tiresome after two hours on the motorway, the standard seats get uncomfortable after 3-4 hours, rear 3/4 visibility with the hood up is pretty poor, the standard halogen lights are shockingly bad, getting in and out of the car at the company car park involves contortions from the Kama Sutra and stop-go traffic on steep inclines such as those in busy multistorey car parks will result in expensive smells from the clutch. It lives outdoors, the paintwork has suffered for it but except for the exhaust clamps there is no rust. It starts first time, every time. The battery doesn't run flat even after a three week hibernation in winter but when you start the car after that long it has a way of telling you it really, really appreciates being used every day. It doesn't have cup holders but the only one who cares about that was my ex-girlfriend, who is American... Garage courtesy cars, business and holiday rentals, my dad's E39 and beloved E34 are all more practical, spacious, comfortable, relaxing and easier to drive (and the two BMWs handle and steer impressively. So well balanced!), but I always find myself missing my car, the weight and feel of the steering, the throttle response, the sound of the flat 6, the acceleration, the progressive brakes, the turn-in, the flat cornering, the looks, the way it shrinks around me like a glove, the way it makes me feel on a weekday summer evening drive after a long day at work. I'd always reckoned an R8 would be like a grown-up Boxster but the lack of boot space is disappointing. I wonder how good an i8 is as a daily.

Not a supercar, but I’ve tried using my 987 Boxster as a daily and it’s very difficult 😅 The main problem is the road noise on Australian roads, it can easily reach over 80db which is intolerable for more than a few minutes. I wonder whether new supercars like this R8 is any better

Hi Jay. I have been following your channel for quite some time :) you have quite few lotus videos, but you missing the latest lotus exige 20th anniversary edition. Is there any chance making one please? Hello from Sydney ans thank you.

I daily a 2002 carrera since a couple of years, and I still love it as the first day. But I guess you car nuts would say: "the 911 isn't a supercar" gne gne gne

If I can daily my Clio V6 you can daily anything.

Two problems. Firstly the poor state of the UK roads coupled with the volume of traffic. Secondly ground clearance on ramps in multistory car parks. We often take my wife Z3 1.9 out in the summer for a local drive and when shopping the 5 series touring is preferred. The 911 turbo is rarely used on many journeys. When we lived in Switzerland close to the German border it was a a totally different situation.

Not a super car but I Daily drove an S2 Exige for 3 years 65k miles. It was horrendous and fabulous in equal quantities.

Perfect analogy. I have a 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Slow, comfortable-ish, decent fuel economy, tech heavy; and I have a 2002 Lotus Esprit V8. Woot. Once gets almost zero looks, one I have even read the lips of a person at a stop light "What the F*** is that?"

I’m driving my RX8 as a daily and I’m averaging a nice 13MPG, makes me shocked that the R8 v10 is doing 20 average

I daily drive a 316bhp hot hatch and race a 130bhp Mazda... I feel like I’m doing things the wrong way round.

I daily drove a motorbike for over 10 years. Practical? No. Doable? Definitely, and I enjoyed it. I'm too old for it now but you can daily drive anything if you want to compromise.

Not only daily driving normalize the experience, when you sell said supercar, prepared to be very underwhelmed by whatever 'sensible' car you replace it with. It hurts. Think dating life when you've just broken up with a supermodel.... (I still yearn for my R8 V10+ years later)

For me the whole point of driving a supercar is not to be able to do so realistically on a daily basis due to severe compromises such as a lack of power steering, too low, too wide, too impractical, too noisy, dangerous in less than ideal conditions etc. factors that have nothing to do with cost. In that sense when you do get to drive them, one feels alive, concentrated and excited having carefully picked the right day/time to do so, knowing that it will offer an physical experience that is different to most. When it reaches a stage like most if not all new supercars nowadays when driving them becomes easy, effortless, not that much different (apart from in your head and attention generated) to a high performance car then it's bound to lose that special appeal especially when driven on a regular basis. Even it's sheer outright pace advantage can't be appreciated on public roads so it has to offer something else. Like with anything in life, when one gets used to something special, it ceases to become special with time.

I used to daily drive my MGB GT. You can pretty much daily drive any car. The boot space in the R8 is pretty terrible, it really limits you from going anywhere long distance in my opinion. Not a good GT in that regard because to me a GT is something you can load up with a punch of gear for a long trip abroad. I like to go camping in my cars while on driving holidays, that wouldn't be possible with such a small boot space. I have noticed though when owning a powerful car people always want to try and keep up with you. It's gotten a bit tiring so I just let them overtake me now. I slow right down and let them pass and drive like a twat.

I've always thought of the R8 to be one of the only possible daily drive supercar

Do you think it would be a good daily driver for someone like me who would put on it over 50k miles a week, considering that the country I live in wants 32€ per horsepower and fuel costs over 2€ /litre?

I daily drive a boxster s. it's often the highlight of the day :)

It's all very relative, some people are willing to make more concessions than others. There's a guy on RU-vid who daily rides a Ducati 1098. There really isn't any car that could be as impractical or uncomfortable as that.

I drive so infrequently (lockt down) just having a drive is enough.

I daily drive a modern Chevrolet Camaro SS which is great apart from narrow country roads.

I can see why someone the size of Jay would be uncomfortable driving a supercar everyday. He can barely fit in the seat 😁😁😁

I have a dream of buying a Honda NSX (the first model) and keeping it for a year and doing probably 8-10k miles a year. Am I dreaming I wonder?

My old diesel Golf is here but I cannot seem to find my supercar 😀

At 2:10 the amount of vibration through James’s pecs says it’s not a daily driver !!

As someone who daily drives a sports car, you can...but if I was still commuting to an office every day I would be back in a luxury car without any hesitation. Got to compare like-for-like costs though, I'll take my porker over any hatch (hot or otherwise), for example but a high end Merc/Lexus or any Bentley is far nicer than any sports/supercar for miles. It's not the practicality or costs, it's purely comfort and refinement. I did 4 hours last week and it was fun for about 2-3 perhaps.

You know how there's Movember, and Veganuary ... is this FebruAudiR8ary ?

That supercar R8 is getting better mpg than a bog standard considerably slower RX8. That also has to be better than the majority of SUVs like Range Rovers and Cayenne etc. I know which I'd prefer to drive.

The 5th Audi R8 video in a month, its not special like a 911, kind of like the Golf of supercars.