Does my daughter still like the Audi R8?

[The Holy Molar]

Great video. I'm looking forwards to sharing my interest in cars with my future kids.

[Brendan@bwalkauto]

Remember when TCL had car enthusiasts?

I know right? This place is like a Fun Police Hard Parking meet.

[vdubspeed]

good god that thing revs fast!

[Pinstripe]

Turbo! So cute.

[bbk]

When my kids were young, they would sit on my lap and steer our old Porsche as we drove up & down the street (it's a private road, so we didn't have to worry about traffic). They loved it.

[bpodlesnik]

That's adorable. It's fun to see videos like this, especially when everything on the news anymore is depressing or discouraging.

[Shomegrown]

One day, you'll unsuspectingly leave the R8 unlocked, your daughter will venture in and roll it into a mailbox. I say this because I've managed to put my parent's old 80's Monte Carlo into neutral rolling it into our neighbors mailbox, "I learn driving ."

It wouldn't be any different than me taking my dad's Audi 5000 5-speed manual out when I was an early teenager.

(I managed not to hit anything though!)

[d_98se]

Yeah, I think so.

[i](Before the fun police gets here, YES, it's legal for her to ride in the front seat. YES, the passenger airbags are switched off.

Fcuk the haters man could you hook up the other video that is being talked about?

[Krazee]

When did you get an R8?

[bootymac]

Awesome! I still remember the original TURBO! video

[1Point8TDan]

My daughter would love the R8 too...

My daughter would know the R8 doesn't have a turbo...









If I ever have kids.

[TetsuoShima]

Remember when TCL had car enthusiasts?

lol

[cjmoy]

Love it. Awesome.

[Internal Combustion]

I feel like you don't laugh and smile like that when you yell at us from your keyboard, Mr Shomegrown.

[Stereodude]

Can we just skip to the follow up thread after the police show up (again)?

[Stereodude]

One day, you'll unsuspectingly leave the R8 unlocked, your daughter will venture in and roll it into a mailbox.

Nah, she'll use the S4 for that.

[jamerican1]

Awesome

[Cousin Eddie]

Some of my best childhood memories are things like these. It`s sad how deprived children are becoming because of over-protective big brother to prevent the idiots from causing bad things to happen.

I remember being about this age and my dad letting me sit on his knee and drive the old 60s Ford Bronco back on his 80 acre property. It had a hole in the gas tank and no tailgate and we used to put gas in it at the house to get to where we were going on the property, cut down a dead tree for firewood and then he`d stack it in the back of the bronco. Gas it up again and let me steer back to the house.

[kraut_pauer79]

omg, the owl beanie has me in stitches. What a cute kid. She handles being strapped into 500+ horsepower with the wind in her face very well Boy how I'd love to be that kid.

[Air and water do mix]

I let my girls sit in the front seat of the Beetle the other day, in the kid seats of course. Naturally they like to fight over stuff like that.

The younger one is dying to help me rebuild the fuel pump. Yeah, that's bonding time for daddy and the kids.

Passing on the desire to the next generation is important if we want to have a next gerneration of car enthusiasts. I'm not so sure we will with all of the loss of interest with kids of that age. I know it will be there, but certainly not in the amount that it was.

Keep up the fight, man!

[TheMunky]

Adorable video

[jason_kendall]

since when do you have an r8?

[titleist1976]

That's awesome, man! My kids love taking on ramps at speed. And then throwing me under the bus when we get home.

[Shomegrown]

since when do you have an r8?

Not mine.

I just end up with 'em from time to time.

[Stereodude]

since when do you have an r8?

Own an R8?!?!? Like most TCL'ers he just goes to the local Audi dealership and tells them he wants a fast car for an extended test drive. This video is 2.5 years after the first one because he had to wait for turnover in the sales department so no one remembered what happened last time with the cops and the sales guy who lost his job.






(In typical TCL form some of the above story may not be true)

[feels_road]

good god that thing revs fast!

X2.

When my kids were young, they would sit on my lap and steer our old Porsche as we drove up & down the street (it's a private road, so we didn't have to worry about traffic). They loved it.

Same when I was a kid - albeit it was an Opel. I could also sit at the very front of the seat and reach the pedals and shift.

[bpodlesnik]

Passing on the desire to the next generation is important if we want to have a next generation of car enthusiasts. I'm not so sure we will with all of the loss of interest with kids of that age. I know it will be there, but certainly not in the amount that it was.

This. I don't even have kids but I was always having my 2 nieces come up to watch and help me change the oil on the Corrado.

[Hostile]

Great video and I loved the last one too!

When I was 4 my dad let me sit in his lap and steer our Subaru wagon through an apple orchard.

Later when I was 6+ he would let me work the shifter in his Subaru hatchback on the way home from school. It had no tach so he taught me to listen to the engine. I'd say "clutch!", he'd press the clutch and I'd shift into the appropriate gear.

Man, I loved that so much.

[masa8888]

That was awesome This past weekend I heard my 2-yr old daughter shout "race car! faster faster!" after I stabbed the throttle on my lowly GTI. It's little things like this that make you smile.

BTW, At the local C&C events, people drive their babies in the front seats all the time. I thought the baby sitting in a recaro seat inside the 430 Scuderia was one of the coolest things I've seen.

[boner]

When my kids were young, they would sit on my lap and steer our old Porsche as we drove up & down the street (it's a private road, so we didn't have to worry about traffic). They loved it.

i used to do that back when i was a kid. we lived in upstate NY and the house was down a country road about a mile long. BOTH my mom and dad would let me steer. i couldn't have been more than 7 years old?!?!?!?!

can't see the current vid at work but i think i saw the original one. someone reported you to the cops?!?!?! i fear for society's future. our grandkids are gonna be incapable of leaving the house (which will be padded with foam for safety) without a helmet, elbow pads and high visibility jackets

[NoDubJustYet]

More like society in this country devolving to the point where respect just doesn't exist anymore, and calling the cops on people you don't like is standard procedure for individuals that used to do stuff like key a person's car for whatever reason. That and everyone has an opinion about everyone else but themselves.

Sounds a bit like Germany... People here love to play cop and let you know if you're doing something they don't approve of. Then they turn around and do whatever the f- they want because it can benefit them.

The funniest part is how they'll run their mouth but then back down completely when you challenge them on it.

[dc5rn]

reminds me when i had my S2000 CR... and people gave me the WTF look when i pulled my 2 year old out of the car... got rid of and and rocked a GLK350... and realized that wasnt my look... shoulda kept the CR

[masa8888]

Sounds a bit like Germany... People here love to play cop and let you know if you're doing something they don't approve of.

What a surprise that just simply nodding to him like most Germans do when they walk past one another was enough for that guy to always nod at me whenever he saw me.

That's just part of the German culture. They like to police each other, and at the same time strangers are nice to each other. I've learnt over the years that understanding a few key differences in culture before travelling to new countries goes a long way. Sorry Shome, for going OT.

[NoDubJustYet]

That's just part of the German culture. They like to police each other, and at the same time strangers are nice to each other. I've learnt over the years that understanding a few key differences in culture before travelling to new countries goes a long way. Sorry Shome, for going OT.

Not sure what you're implying... I've done plenty of travelling and living over here.

I'm just posting an observation. The Germans love rules, regulations and following orders. They also like to play cop.

[Seki]