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Newswheel @ the Paris show: Gratuitous R8 image whorage

Newswheel staff :: 05 October 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US

Just can’t get enough of Audi’s natty new R8 mid-engine sportster? Well, allow us to further fill your boots. Along with a pair of fully built R8s, Audi also had a cut-away car with the full beauty of the aluminium space frame construction on display. Meanwhile, a few more details of Audi’s new flagship ubercar are creeping in. For starters, UK pricing will hit the £76,000 mark, pegging the R8 at a few grand more than Porsche’s 911 Carrera 4 (yours for around £72k). What’s more, a V10 model using the Gallardo’s 500bhp lump is expected to appear in 2008…

Newswheel @ the Paris motor show: Audi R8 (UPDATED)

Newswheel staff :: 28 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US

It’s a dead ringer for the Le Mans concept. It’s closely related to the Lamborghini Gallardo. And it’s powered by a V8 lump pinched from the RS4 saloon. In short, there’s nothing remotely surprising about it. But it’s still the no-contest star of the Paris show. Audi unsheathed the new R8 mid-engined sportster today and suffice to say the car is pure class from bumper to bumper…

R8 is Le Mans dead ringer (UPDATED)

Newswheel staff :: 29 March 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi Le Mans, Audi R8, Europe & UK, US

Concept cars, eh? Usually an opportunity for manufacturers to remind you just how dreary their production line up is by dangling something impossibly sleek and sexy below your nose. But not Audi. The TT is the original latter day concept made manifest and with the upcoming R8, the German outfit has done it again. As the latest spy shots prove, it’s a dead ringer for the disgustingly desirable Le Mans concept of 2003.

Audi R8: Bagged and tagged

Newswheel staff :: 31 January 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Europe & UK, US

Grainy, blurry and somewhat inconclusive. Normally, we wouldn’t bother with ropey long-range spy shots like these. But Audi’s mid-engined R8 supercar promises to be a bit special. And this is the first time it’s been bagged on film.

Rear-wheel drive Gallardo confirmed

Newswheel staff :: 21 December 2005 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Lamborghini, Lamborghini Gallardo, Europe & UK, US

Great car, the Gallardo. But thanks to that four-wheel drivetrain, most think it’s a little too safe and secure to be a classic Lambo. That all-weather tackle also helps to push the car’s kerbweight over the 1,500kg mark. What we really want is an edgier, lighter, rear-wheel-drive-only Gallardo. And that’s exactly what we’re going to get, according to Lamborghini’s head Honcho Stephan Winkelmann.

Le Mans is R8

Newswheel staff :: 17 November 2005 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi Le Mans, Audi R8, Europe & UK, US

Audi’s Le Mans concept has already been confirmed for production. And now Audi has announced that the storming mid-engined sportscar will be called the R8 when it hits the road in 2007. But with no official technical details available, fisticuffs are brewing over what engine will power the new car.

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