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Forum members reported that the R18 smoked extensively.

Originally Posted by Acid09

- The new 908 sounds incredibly sweet, raw & powerful, the old "Diesel cars don't have proper sound" talking point has to be dropped. The car can even be heard when it's surrounded by screamers like the 458...very nice! The R18 sounds "meh" though...

- .. it makes up for that with another "feature" though. The car is a nasty smoker, I don't think I´ve ever seen any Diesel put out this much black smoke. We all know that the ACO does not enforce the "no visible immisions" rule but Audi is taking it too far here. Watching from the Esses, it was always easy to see the R18 coming, just look out for the big black cloud under the Dunlop-bridge. No visible smoke on the 908, and that's certainly not my bias talking..

Originally Posted by batmobile

As ACID 09 says, the Audis were very smoky but on the track they ran on a rail. They are so silencious than last year, compared with pugs that are noisier.

Originally Posted by PascaLM

I don't know is someone was sandbagging, but I think that the smoking R18, with its washing-machine noise, has an exceptional behaviour in the lowest curves. The use of the front tires is awesome. Its trajectory is noticeably smoother and far better than the Peugeot's.