The R8 had actually revealed itself three years before that, at the 2003 Geneva and Frankfurt shows. By that point, Audi had ...

The Audi R8 was a car of many firsts for the German ... for independent garages to swap the seven-speed DSG for a gated manual shifter and add twin-turbocharging for more power.

However, a gated shifter is a classic look and is why they have appeared in recent history on a few supercars, notably on the Audi R8 V10, Lamborghini Gallardo, and Ferrari's final car with a ...

That’s how Jacky Ickx described the first-generation Audi R8 that we ... over the excellent open-gated manual complete with chunkily knurled aluminium shifter. This buying pattern suggested ...