Here a few more pics, these were taken by the seller, I haven't had time yet to clean her up but these are my actual car.

I would say if there was a scale where SMG was a 1 and the DSG was a 4, this transmission would be a 3 in terms of smoothness and refinement.

In my experience with the E46 SMG which was MANY years ago was that it was clunky, it banged into gear and really was in need of some major refinement (I was not a fan) ... the R tronic is much smoother and feels much more refined though what I like is it still has the rawness to it so you would never mistake it for a regular automatic with a torque converter.

If you try to drive it like an automatic your not going to like it if you don't take you foot gently off the gas pedal during shifts because you will bob around but it is not a jerky feel, it is more of a delayed feel as the Automated clutch does it job.

So great. Congrats again!

looks mint, congrats:cool:

Not to mention that the engine sound is behind your head! ;)

Yup, still sounds exactly the same.

My guess is you were just being hamfisted. :dunno:

Man, too freaking cool. Nice purchase!

Beautiful!

Awesome! You now own 2 of my current favorite sports cars.

Super congrats! The salesman suggested when we bought my wife's Q7 that they had the cheapest R8 in the country (lightly optioned). I didn't buy it. :)