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Finally go my 2022 R8 Spyder! First impressions

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After months of waiting I finally found a 2022 R8 Spyder RWD in Suzuka Gray and purchased it.
First impressions:
The car looks gorgeous in person, very exotic.
I took it to curvy mountain roads and wow this car handles the curves with such confidence and pleasure. I always heard reviews that complain steering lacks feedback. I’d say nonesense to that. I’m coming from a Porsche and can definitely say the R8 steering has plenty of feedback.
Above 5K RPM it pops and bangs fabulously. All it needs is a valve controller to keep the valves open all the time. The stock exhaust imho is good enough, specially with the top down.
The only minor thing with car is that I was surprised the suspession is so firm. Hopefully I’ll get used to it.

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Congrats! Lovely spec!
 
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Some states have laws about tinting lights. Have any of you with smoked lights had any issues? We have yearly state inspections in NC so I would worry about smoked lights being an issue. I don’t think it’s a problem for side markers but I believe that it would be for rear and front lights.
 
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Here in Alberta, we have laws against tinting windows (which I always do anyway), though I am not certain if they care about tinted tail lights and head lights etc. But since it's a thin film and generally pretty cheap to get done (I have a guy that charges me less than $100 for all lights because I sent a lot of work his way) even if you have to remove it for an inspection and then re-apply, I feel it's not a bad thing. On my car above, the rear thin horizontal brake light in the rear is actually not tinted but it still looks tinted. My guy made a comment after tinting the tail lights that they now match that thing brake light which now appears to me that it comes a bit 'smoked' like that from the factory so we didn't feel the need to put a film on that part at all.
 
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