The big brakes (360 mm discs with six - piston
callipers up front) that do such a good job in this true - life emergency stop (just check - out the video!)
These include six - pot Brembo
callipers up - front, a limited slip differential, staggered 19 - inch wheels, a K - brace under the bonnet, uprated chassis tuning including heavy duty front springs and an upsized rear anti-roll bar.
New Brembo brakes handle the stopping with 400 mm diameter two - piece ventilated brake discs up front and 350 mm ventilated discs at the rear, paired with 6 - piston
callipers up front and 4 - piston callipers at the rear — all painted yellow.
Conventional steel discs are gripped by eight - piston fixed
callipers up front and in the cabin Audi's Virtual Cockpit takes pride of place.
It has enormous brakes, with 390 mm discs and six - piston
callipers up front and 360 mm units (with a single - piston calliper) at the back, and five driving modes.
Not exact matches
Available on TT, TTS and TT RS models and both R8 variants, the chassis upgrades include two (TT) and three - way (R8) adjustable coilover suspension, milled 20 - inch wheels that reduce weight by
up to 8 kg and upgraded brake pads said to resist fade better than the standard items; a further kilo is saved by using titanium in the brake
callipers, which are painted red.
The optional carbon - ceramic brakes fitted to our test car are no lighter than the standard cast iron set -
up thanks to the increased size of the rotors and
callipers, but they do promise to address the Gallardo's propensity to suffer brake fade in extreme use.
It could be a stuck
calliper, for instance (brakes always a bit on; disc heats
up; when you stop it cools unevenly; it warps).
As before, you get a limited - slip differential
up front to keep things under control, plus the option of a Sub8 Performance Pack, which adds bigger Brembo brakes with four - pot
callipers and lightweight 19in wheels.
It gets a dark - finish five - spoke wheels (18 - inch
up front, 19 - inch at the back), red brake
callipers and a noise pipes from Akrapovic.
The N look starts with black - bezeled headlights, a deeper front splitter, bigger air inlets, air curtains to clean
up front - wheel airflow and red - painted brake
callipers, while it has a gloss black spoiler at the rear, complete with a triangular third brake light and a dual exhaust system.
The range - topping Polo GTI is stopped by four - wheel discs measuring 310 mm
up front and 230 mm at the rear, all gripped by meaty red - painted
callipers.
Bringing things to a stop are Brembo six - piston
callipers at the front backed
up by dual piston jobbies at the rear, squeezing cross-drilled rotors.
Braking, meanwhile, has been beefed
up with huge discs and front six - piston
callipers.
The standard brakes include steel rotors with four - piston
callipers at the front and two at the rear, though there is an optional 400 mm carbon - ceramic disc with six - piston calipers
up front and four at the rear.
But it's the large disc brakes and painted red
callipers on all four wheels that tell onlookers this tiny sports machine is not just playing grown -
ups.
The Night Edition package includes an AMG bodykit (front / rear bumpers, side sills) with high - gloss black highlights, Bi-colour black 19 - inch AMG wheels, Night Package exterior detailing, panoramic sunroof, 590 - Watt 13 - speaker Burmester surround sound system, head -
up display, heated front seats, tinted rear windows, metallic paint, leather seat trim, illuminated side sills and cross-drilled brake discs with Mercedes - Benz
calliper lettering.
This particular car has the optional AMG Performance Package (this effectively
ups - boost from 1bar to 1.3 bar to produce +100 Nm / +32 bhp)($ 24,900) and also includes the carbonfibre bootlid spoiler, carbonfibre engine cover and erm... red - painted brake
callipers (right...!).
Up front these measure 340 mm and are grabbed by black - painted four - pot
callipers bearing the «S» logo.
On the front, the anchor set -
up is enormous, with a 10 - piston monobloc alloy fixed
calliper doing its best to engulf a 440x40mm carbon - ceramic disc.
Well, they pull
up fine, but the initial bite of the four - pot monobloc
callipers on the vented and cross-drilled front discs felt initially soft through the pedal.
Standard equipment will be extensive, including Performance suspension, four - piston Brembo front and rear performance brakes with fixed
callipers and 20 - inch five - split - spoke alloy wheels — 8.5 inches wide
up front and 9.5 - inch at rear — wrapped in 245/40 ZR20 front and 275/35 ZR20 rear Goodyear Eagle tyres.
Although you miss out on the ceramic brakes of the Plus, the eight - piston front and four - piston rear
callipers put
up with plenty of abuse even on track.
These include sports suspensions with specific set -
up, side skirts, sports bumpers with exclusive red Alfa profile, 17» alloy rims, oversized Brembo brake system with red
callipers and four master cylinders and oversized tailpipes.
These include sports suspensions with specific set -
up, side skirts, sports bumpers with exclusive red Alfa profile, 17» alloy wheels, oversized Brembo brake system with red
callipers and four master cylinders and oversized tailpipes.