Audi’s screamer gets things just right

It’s weird to call a €300,000 supercar humble, but that’s how I’d describe the 2017 Audi R8 V10.

Oh, it’s a screamer, all right — 540 horsepower on a massive V10 engine it shares with the Lamborghini Huracán. It has carbon-fibre blades that span its sides like weapons. And it has a rumble that your friends and family will come to associate with you indelibly, whether you like it or not.

But that’s just it. While the Audi shares the same engine, transmission, carbon-fibre outer, upper B-pillar and rear bulkhead, chassis, steering, and general electronics as the shard-like Huracán, it is the decidedly more understated of the two Volkswagen-owned siblings. When I say “humble,” I mean it relatively.