Does anything sound better than a hardworking V-10? The question was raised and subsequently answered by the combination of a freeway tunnel on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria and the Audi R8 Performance Spyder’s 8700-rpm redline, experienced with the roof down. The noise is both glorious and entirely free of digital augmentation—savage exhaust harmonics overlaying the mechanical thrash of the naturally aspirated engine, busier and harder-edged than a V-8, angrier than a V-12. We will miss it when

DOHC 40-valve V-10, aluminum block and heads, port and direct fuel
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