TARNKAPPE

ALMOST FIFTY DEGREES. DEATH VALLEY.

And of all days, the Audi is wearing a blanket.

What is underneath is not supposed to be seen yet. The future R8 is not yet the car for posters, garage walls and teenage bedrooms. It is a test car, a prototype — and very warmly dressed.

The air shimmers. Dust gets everywhere. Under the camouflage waits a shape that, not long after, everyone will know.

TARNKAPPE catches that odd in-between moment: the legend is already there. Nobody knows it yet.

Later it will be on posters.

Here it is simply standing in the desert, sweating.