Page 1 of 1

Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:02 am
by AMB

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:10 am
by the911 sc
most of these cars found their way to dealerships it seems - having been looking for a while I recognize quite a few of the number plates.

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:27 am
by AMB
the911 sc wrote:most of these cars found their way to dealerships it seems - having been looking for a while I recognize quite a few of the number plates.
Yes, I saw many of them on UK motoring reviews (mostly magazine types)...they would have been "well run in". 6 of which were 'progressively' driven around Oulton Park & Millbrook in late 2012 by a select bunch of very enthusiastic customers and a few Audi Touring Car drivers; who were nutters !! :notworthy:

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 8:45 pm
by P1 Dave
Image
Image
Image
Image
ImageImage

Embedded for you

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:25 pm
by the911 sc
I would usually treat OV, OY and similar pre fixes with caution! - Press office usually register all demos etc via Oxford from what I understand.

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:54 pm
by AMB
Interesting....

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:55 pm
by HYFR
They are registered in Oxford because they are managed my Paragon Fleet Solutions on behalf of Audi UK...it does not mean they have all be tracked.

My first V10 R8 for example was OV but it was a Audi UK funded demonstrator for Derby Audi...I.e never went near a track...£100k motors take up a lot of funding lines!

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:12 pm
by doodlebug
HYFR wrote:They are registered in Oxford because they are managed my Paragon Fleet Solutions on behalf of Audi UK...it does not mean they have all be tracked.

My first V10 R8 for example was OV but it was a Audi UK funded demonstrator for Derby Audi...I.e never went near a track...£100k motors take up a lot of funding lines!
Maybe not a track but it'll have had a lot of foot fall and had its pedal mashed to the carpet from mile one. That's not everyone's ideal.

Re: Oulton Park B8_RS customer ride&drive day 20.10.12

Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 3:12 pm
by the911 sc
Guess it depends - rightly some are just demos and Audi UK cars - they usually have an extremely high spec too so not all bad!..