Audi R8 V8 R tronic, supercharged, called 14 Sep 2026.

A 2008 Audi R8 4.2 V8 running on Collecting Cars out of Sydney, New South Wales — white over red leather, 65,318 kilometres indicated and not warranted, Australian-market, VIN WUAZZZ4218N004847, on black 19-inch twin five-spoke wheels with red callipers, and carrying a supercharger conversion.

This is the R-tronic single-clutch automated manual in a pre-facelift car, and on this record that combination is the cheap half of the model by a third.

Four Australian results sit behind the carried $118,000. Three are later cars: $135,000 in June 2024 for a 2013 S-tronic at 52,631 kilometres, $130,000 in March 2025 for a modified 2013 at 44,963, and $128,500 in September 2025 for a 2012 open-gate manual at 45,456. The fourth is $86,000 in September 2025 for a 2007 car on the R-tronic at about 38,200 kilometres — Australian-delivered, second private owner, nine dated services, and no defect that explains the gap. The entry's evidence note states that it SHOULD BE SPLIT at the 2012 facelift, because one number cannot describe an $86,000 car and a $135,000 car that share a badge.

Run the hierarchy against the $118,000 base: minus 4.5 for a 2008 build near the start of a 2007-15 run, minus 1 for 65,318 kilometres against the 54,000 the model expects of a 2008 car, and minus 8 for the forced-induction conversion at the table rate. That is minus 13.5 per cent, nowhere near the cap, and it lands at $102,070. It is wrong, and it is wrong for a reason the record wrote down before this car appeared: the base it starts from is a blend of two markets and this lot is in the cheaper one.

Start at $86,000 — West Ballina, September 2025, same generation, same gearbox, same market, twelve months old. Minus 3.5 per cent for 27,118 more kilometres at this record's 1.3 per cent per 10,000, which is $3,032, and the penalty is taken in full rather than halved because this library only discounts an unwarranted reading when the reading is earning a credit.

The same record says distance correlates with price at plus 0.86 across its four sales and that no fit is attempted, so 1.3 is the library's working figure for a car of this kind and not something this entry has established. It moves the call by three thousand dollars either way, which is why it is applied at all. That lands at $82,968.

The first version of this call took eight, which is the library's table figure for forced induction added to an engine that did not leave the factory with it, and it presented that as the disciplined choice because it was not a number invented for the occasion.

This call refuses the library's fitted market index because this record publishes a refusal to measure drift on its own sales; it cannot then borrow the library's modification rate on a record that cannot measure modification either.

The two most modified cars in the set made $130,000 and $128,500 - the second of those on a PES supercharger, air suspension, a splitter and a diffuser. The cheapest car by a third, at $86,000, is the cleanest one in the record: original, second owner, nine dated services, nothing fitted. What separates it is the gearbox and the build year, not the absence of parts. Nothing here measures what a blower does in either direction, because every modified car in the set is also a facelift car on a gearbox this market pays for.

Five per cent, for two reasons that do not need a fitted coefficient: a conversion is the one modification a buyer cannot inspect, cannot cheaply undo and cannot verify was done well, and this entry's own bull case is a driveline that is exceptionally well proven, which a conversion is precisely what unproves. $78,840.

The advertisement says nothing about service history at all — no interval, no dealer, no count. The $86,000 anchor carried nine dated services from a 2009 pre-delivery inspection. This record names verifying genuine service history as one of its three risks and puts an R-tronic actuator service at $2,800, and an R-tronic car with no history at 65,318 kilometres is the case that risk was written for. $75,687, and the call is $75,500.

The band was widened from twenty-eight per cent to forty-two on the day it was published, and the supercharger figure has now moved from eight to five. Both were errors of method rather than changes of mind, and both are written above rather than quietly applied. A call that keeps moving without new facts is not a call, and this one stops here.

The library's fitted index would ADD about four and a half per cent across that year. This record's own carried history runs the other way, $122,000 in 2024 to $118,000 in 2026, and the entry was revalued down twice in August 2026. Neither is a transaction on this variant. The record also states that no fit is attempted on its four sales at all, because date and distance correlate at minus 0.87 inside the sample and nothing separates from anything else. When the only two directions available point opposite ways and neither is measured on the car in front of us, the honest coefficient is zero, and that is what is applied.

A 2008 V8 passed in at Donington in June 2026 against a $120,000 to $140,000 estimate, and this record's own reading of it is that a 2008 R-tronic car was never going to reach $120,000. That is the most recent Australian evidence on this exact build year and nobody paid the low estimate.

The record prices Suzuka Grey and Brilliant Red at 2 and Phantom Black at nothing, and white is not among them. The dearest car in the set happens to be white, which is one car and not a colour premium, so it is recorded and not paid for.

The house states no security interest logged on the Personal Property Securities Register and no written-off or stolen marker on NEVDIS. This desk docked a Supra four per cent for the presence of an interest, so the absence of one earns nothing here.

The side blades are gloss black against the white body, and the advertisement's text does not say whether they are the carbon option this record pays two per cent for or painted panels; carbon blades and paint look identical at this resolution and the difference is worth about $1,500, so it is a question rather than an adjustment. A black lower front lip is fitted. The wheels are black and the callipers red, which the listing states. The headlamps carry the pre-facelift lens with the LED strip along the lower edge, which is correct for a 2008 car and is one small confirmation that the build year and the body agree with each other.

The listing's key facts say the engine drives THE REAR WHEELS. The Type 42 R8 V8 is quattro and this record carries it as all-wheel drive; the specification block on the same page says nothing about a conversion. The likeliest explanation by far is a copywriting error rather than a driveline change, and it is priced as one, but if it is not an error then this is a different car from the one being valued and the number does not apply. Second, what the supercharger is, who fitted it, on what tune, and what the engine has done since. Third, the registration R8IT is a personalised plate and the house's terms say a personalised registration is not included unless the listing says it is. This one does not say it is. It is priced at nothing rather than deducted for.

The width table is keyed to how many counted Australian sales stand behind a record, and this one carries four, which buys twenty-eight per cent. But the rule exists to say how wide a range has to be when a value rests on thin evidence, and THIS CALL DOES NOT REST ON THE RECORD. It rests on one sale: the $86,000 West Ballina car of September 2025. Three of the four counted results describe the facelift market that this call spent four paragraphs arguing does not apply here, so they cannot widen the evidence base and narrow the band at the same time. One local transaction is the bottom tier of the table and it is forty-two per cent.

The 456 GTA call leaned its whole structure on a single Australian sale, published a ten per cent band around it, and missed by 37.3 per cent - the widest miss in this log. The error was not the arithmetic, it was the confidence. Publishing twenty-eight here because a table said so, on a call built off one car, would be a hedge dressed as a measurement. Buyer's premium of six per cent plus GST sits on top of the hammer. Bidding and attention stood at 591 views and 41 saves when this was written, with no bid figure published on the page. Predicted hammer $44,000 to $107,000, midpoint $75,500.

The last 2008 R8 offered in this country carried a $120,000 low estimate and did not sell. If vendors of pre-facelift cars are still asking facelift money, this lot ends the way that one did and grades neither way.