Wood-bladed R8 makes us laugh,cry

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Wood-bladed Audi R8 makes us laugh, cry

The Audi R8's won a lot of admiration for its avant-garde styling, and those side blades are perhaps the supercar's most interesting styling feature. One owner, however, evidently wasn't satisfied with the carbon-fiber or aluminum finish, so he came up with a different approach that's considerably more... down to Earth.

The image comes to us courtesy of MotorMorph.com, and love it or hate it, you've got to admit the wood panel looks better than the plastic ones did on those Chrysler minivans from your childhood. Now, there's no guarantees that this isn't just a crafty Photoshop job, and because of that, we'll cross our fingers in the hope that this example of hilarious blasphemy isn't out roaming the streets.

[gazza1]

Horrible Appearance..is this a tree hugger model?

Wouldn't be the best in a worst case scenario of a engine fire.

[Roy Skousen]

Quick, find that car! It's time for an intervention! Some one really needs help, and a new set of Blades.

[FiftyPence]

Most likely just a wood-effect vinyl wrap. I think it's unique and therefore rather cool.

[OEMplus.com]

I am with Andrew and think it's probably a wrap. Looks pretty cool though!

What is next? Meat print? Brick? Bamboo?

[dailydriver]

I'm not so sure about the wood species selection which appears to be something like korina which I think clashes badly with the daytona gray.

[KfabR8]

Red brick would be the bomb!

Or, for hunting season, a good camo blade would be an option.

[sapien]

maybe it could work with the right shade of brown.

[gazza1]

Eek

Careful or next we will have car designers thinking that wood paneling on the side looks glamorous.

Oops...sorry forgot about "Woodies" from 80 YEARS AGO

[sapien]

ha, if car designers are reading this I hope they can detect sarcasm.