British Premiere Attendees

[TTej]

Interestingly the car in the forum behind the stand at Paris had the UK standard 5 double spoke alloys, was in phantom black, with the carbon side blade. When I saw it, basically it removed any doubts I had about whether or not I was going to take up my order - hope you guys all have the same positive experience tomorrow night!

is that the same car that EVO were invited to see, one question how did you get back stage in Paris??

[Paul]

Probably will go and have some free food & drink "O" and have a look at the car.
I'm thinking of taking delivery of my R8 about March 08, this will give me time to have a look at colour combos and by then there could be extra options like ceramic brakes, also by then the LED lights will be available and you never know even a date for the much talked about V10

Always nice to have some free food and drink
Not a bad idea to wait till 2008 for your car ... if you are prepared to wait that is ... like you say, it will give you time to see some in teh flesh and get a car with all the options you want ... some of which might not be available on the early built cars

[jampoTT]

Found the website for the "chef" who is doing the food for tonight...

apart from normally charging £65 for a starter (!) he seems to cook a lot of pigeon, frogs legs and snails. Pig's head and trotter also seems a speciality.

I don't know about you, but if I'm paying through the nose for top nosh, I'd like the chef to cook something he didn't find in his garden. Or if he's going to serve pork, I'd like the NICE cuts, not the bits you'd make sausages out of...

[timmyboy]

Hi TTej, yeah that was the car that you can see in the background of the photo of Stephan Reil. I got backstage basically through a miscommunication - my french wasn't up to all that, and I handed over my dealer's business card, trying to say "call and check that I've got a deposit down", and they thought I worked for Audi UK, so invited me back for some free champagne, and showed me around the car... I wasn't complaining!