The boys are thirsty in Atlanta and there's beer in Texarkana and we'll bring it back no matter what it takes. — Jerry Reed, Eastbound and Down, Smokey and the Bandit, 1977
It was with that mentality that we went and got our Audi R8 in Atlanta, Georgia — because it was there and it needed to be here, back at our office in Santa Monica, California. Well, that and a 3,000-mile road trip in one of the world's great cars sounded better than a week in the cubicle.
Believe it or not, Audi wanted to truck the car out west...
Not us. We put on our Speedo, packed up our gas credit card and jumped in the water. After all, the point of our spending the next three months with Audi's new spaceship is to find out if it really is the ultimate everyday supercar. And what better way to start this little experiment than a four-day, 3,000-mile run from Hotlanta to the Pacific Ocean?
So come along for the ride; first stop Nawlins, Weasiana.
Scott Oldham, Inside Line Editor in Chief @ 7,041 miles
roar02ram says:
06:03 PM, 06/17/08
Is that Fox News I see tuned in?
For shame.
sgude says:
04:56 AM, 06/18/08
Did you see that speed in Georgia?
playdrv4me says:
07:23 AM, 06/18/08
877-9-NO SPIN. Woooo!
crowb says:
07:27 AM, 06/18/08
Dude, that sucks. My In-Laws live in New Orleans and my wife and I go down there all the time. If I'd known in advance we could have met you guys down there and taken you out on Bourbon Street. My wife knows a lot of the club owners and bands that play regularly down there. We could have made sure you guys were in no condition to drive the next day.
Hope you had fun down there. Knowing post-Katrina New Orleans, you're lucky if the Audi wasn't stolen or urinated on at the very least.
SnakeDoctor says:
09:16 AM, 06/18/08
Awesome pic Scott J: a buck-twelve!, but no shot of the simultaneous Blackberry.
estreka says:
11:42 AM, 06/18/08
"That'd be like turning down a hot tub date with the Pussycat Dolls because there's just too many of them"
rofl
ittazvic says:
11:44 AM, 06/18/08
Why does the odometer read 8,729?
SubyTrojan says:
07:12 PM, 06/18/08
LOL @ SnakeDoc's comment!