Road Test of the Year 2016: Audi R8 V10 Plus Review

We're hard on the fast pedal and accelerating towards a horizon peppered by autumnal fields of gold and disgruntled sheep. Behind me, a V10 is singing at the very upper echelons of its rev range, howling a scream that's reverberating off the scenery – and I'm smiling a smile that only a supercar with an engine as special as this can induce.

If ever there was a vehicle defined by its powerplant, the R8 is it. Right from the moment it barks into life behind you, to the minute it settles down to a potent, visceral idle, you know this V10 is something special.