Who over the age of 24 is really concerned with acceleration on the cheap anymore? Seeing that this article was instigated by Forbes, a magazine that doesn't exactly target the Maxim crowd, I wonder what the hell was the point. Is there a class of Forbes reader that has a desire to buy a quickly accelerating 3rd car…

It was acceptable at the time.

$60! in 1982!!! That's nearly $140k for a monstrosity that makes the worst of Mansory's collection seem like a Matisse.

8, well 9 really in the past 15 years. I've gone through 5 in the past year and a half though, the benefits of a career getting under way. I'll keep the MX5, but the current Saab will likely leave for a BMW wagon. 911s, an Elise and possibly an Aston are on the decade horizon...

I'm curious why he'd go the paint route over a wrap. If he damages the car, repainting it could either look VERY battle authentic... or just crap.

The only wagon body I'd say no to on the entire planet, and a diesel engine that is far from the pantheon of great old diesels makes this one a non-starter for me.

When I saw he lived in Deerfield it all made perfect sense. You can't enjoy supercars in Chicagoland, just collect them.

holy death machine! want!!

What will those wily, racist cops in OH think of next? Gee golly...

Reminds me of the Brasilia my parents had when I was born. Can't remember the car, but they have tons of old photos. NP.

I didn't see any love for it, but I like personal planes more than fighter jets as a matter of principle...

@BrtStlnd So, you can afford one then?

it's just a shame this is a $200,000 toy (based on estimates in Automobile and Car magazines). The Ur Quattro was expensive, but ultimately attainable. It moved the game forward. This won't move anything forward, and weakens the position created by the R8. That is assuming Audi wants the R8 to remain the top machine…

So it's a body tweak/kit on a DB9, some mechanicals from the DBS, the interior (dash and seats mainly) from the Rapide and a price that sits between the DB9 and DBS... Seems more like a marketing special than a properly new car. Of course it's sexy, it's a VH Aston. Doesn't fool me though.

Before the gulf between middle class and mega wealth was so great, a Quattro coupe was Audi's cooking bodyshell and parts, mashed up with the primo race engineering.

I posted it up above, FIA "Appendix J". Said you could make changes to the chassis, or body - but not both without having to re-homoglate the entire car. Intended for minor updates to tires, hoods etc. Got exploited into complete aerodynamic reworks. the 250 GTO was a major exploiter, and later the Cobra Daytona coupe.

The "real" GTO from Italy (ducks rotten tomatoes, etc) also used a loophole to get built...

and the real deal, side-by-side.

The "Appendix J" loophole from the 1960s FIA rulebook. Appendix J stated that you could change the body or the chassis, but not both simultaneously. The rules were rather vague with no limit to the scale of change allowed. Ferrari used that loophole to introduce and successfully compete with the 250 GTO.

What route do they take from SFO to CDG? Looks like they went far into the Arctic circle.