Cannonball Run ready Audi R8 ‘Blackbird’
- August 13th, 2008
- 4 Comments
This isn’t Burt Reynolds car. There are so many gadgets seamless built into this Audi R8 that it blows our, and Alex Roy’s, mind. If there ever was a car built specifically for underground, coast-to-coast, high-speed racing, this is it. Kind of makes you wonder if it was built to beat Roy’s 31 hour, 4 minute New York to Santa Monica Pier run.
What we think is the Audi’s complete inventory:
- Liquid-cooled infrasonic wave pulse generator (Might be to disrupt the infrared laser and radar detector guns but we really don’t know)
- Four GPS units
- Uniden Police Scanner
- Valentine One Radar detector
- Rearview mirror Passport 9500 radar detector
- WiFi
- Tablet PC with Google Earth
- Dual Bluetooth GPS units
- Cobra CB Radio
- PA with full police sirens
- Take down lights
- Radar gun
- Laser speed detector gun
- Three SD video cams
- Switchable rear-lights
- Rear Strobe lights
- Remote control exhaust system
via Autoblog
Video after the break.
Slipstream (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Burt Reynolds is the man. I have him as the voice on my GPS that I got from Navtones.com. He often helps me escape from tricky situations now! That’s all this car is missing!
Boutros-Boutros Sam (Who am I?)
3 months ago
John, I think you forgot to mention that this posting (Audi R8) is also on the 10-days-of-crunch-gear-christmas giveaway promo you’re doing…
dale (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The Infra-Sonic Pulse Generator is to disrupt the flow of electrical current or something close to that. It basically shuts down the squad car ahead of the R8. Think of it as the stun gun for anything that uses electrical current. Pulse-ray guns have been around for a while. The complexity and cost is what has prevented us hoons from ever owning one.
The idea is that since cops take stupid risks to stop moronic felons, whatever cop cruiser makes it in front of the R8 will be momentarily disabled. This means the engine, lights, radio, siren, and including the police officers personal police radio, which flexes to the trunk radio/battery in the trunk.
One would have to assume that the pulse gun generator would take out a cell-phone as well. A police officer is not going to figure this out in 5 seconds flat. I mean the pulse gun technology goes against all the police training in the world.
Jail time for this machine is incredible, if you get caught.
DjDATZ (Who am I?)
3 weeks ago
That is…IF you get caught. :P