There's no doubt that the new R8 is a really good car and indeed much more suited for daily use, although I'm pretty sure that the 488 can be an equally good daily driver, except for really bad conditions maybe. The thing is, I would never buy such car for daily use, but as a weekend toy. And for that, a car needs to 'feel' special to me. I don't care about the attention that I'll get with a car. It also has nothing to do with its pricetag or performance, but with the overall feeling a car gives me. The R8 doesn't feel special to me when looking at it (the old one didn't either). The Huracan was also on display in Porto Cervo and that car has so much more presence (admittedly, the color helped too... It was dark blue metallic and the Audi very ugly pale red-ish). Anyway... I simply didn't like the Audi, but I did like the Huracan a lot. What I did like on the R8 is its new interior, but even that doesn't look as good (designwise) as the interior of the new TT for example.
The value of a car, isn't measured by pure numbers. At least, not for me. Don't care if the Huracan is more expensive and maybe technically inferior to the R8. To me it's worth at least double the price of an R8, simply because I wouldn't pay that price for an R8, while I would, in that case, be tempted to pay the Huracan's price for the Huracan. In contrary... With Porsche it's the other way around. In my opinion, no 911 is even worth half its price, while for me the Boxster is worth double its price. But that's just my personal view....
Having said all that... I don't want any of those "supercars". Not an R8, not a Huracan, not a 488 and certainly not an upper range 911. I'm pretty sure that none of them would offer me a huge amount more fun than I can have with my current Boxster, so none of these cars are actually worth their money to me. If there's any "exotic" that I'm interested in, it would be the Cali T, which suits my needs a lot more, but it couldn't replace the Boxster. Would be a nice addition though.
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Suzy