Audi R8 News

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    Talk of a diesel-powered R8 has been around since the launch of the Audi supercar and really peaked in 2008 when not one but two R8 concept cars powered by diesel engines were presented, each fitted with a monster 6.0-liter V-12 TDI good for 500 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque. Audi eventually abandoned plans for its diesel R8, but now it looks like the car is back on the agenda. Automobile Magazine is reporting that the second generation of the R8, due for the 2016 model year, will eventually get a diesel option. At launch the new R8 will offer V-8 and V-10 units, just like the...

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    2015 Audi R8 Gets Minor Updates Ahead Of New Model’s Arrival

    Audi is set to introduce a redesigned R8 supercar for the 2016 model year, so that means the current model, first revealed all the way back in 2006, will soldier on for one more year. To help keep sales brimming, Audi is offering a number of special features on the R8 for the 2015 model year, one...

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    2016 Audi R8 Spy Shots (With Interior)

    You’re looking at the latest spy shots of a prototype for the second-generation Audi R8. The car has been developed alongside the new Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4, with which it shares a platform, though its sales launch is still about a year away, which means we’re likely to see...

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    #GiveAShift: The 7 Best Manual Transmissions You Can Drive

    Every single day, a sportscar gets overlooked. Abandoned. Rejected. It’s fast, it’s beautiful…but it has a stick shift. Automatics, CVTs, dual-clutches—they find their forever homes while thousands of stick shifts are left behind. It's sad, but it's true. Manual...

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    Audi R8 LMX Lights Up At Le Mans: Mega Gallery And Video

    Audi's new R8 LMX supercar was shown for the first time in public at the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans this past weekend. The car was shown prior to the race, and on hand to present it was Audi racing driver Tom Kristensen who would later go on to come second overall along with Lucas di Grassi and Marc...

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    Audi R8 LMX: World’s First Standard Laser Headlights, Performance Upgrades

    The Audi R8 LMX is locked in a duel with the BMW i8 for the world's first laser headlights. Which will win?

  • Next-gen Audi R8 LMS ultra race car spy shots

    Audi is working on a second generation of its R8 supercar, and that means a new version of the R8 LMS ultra race car is also due. Here is a video that depicts what’s likely to be the second generation of the R8 LMS in its initial shakedown test. The video, posted to YouTube by user digitalmoviedv2, shows two Audi race cars testing at a track. One we know is the 2014 R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans prototype that’s already contesting this year’s World Endurance Championship, while the heavily-camouflaged car is the one believed to be the new R8 LMS (appears at the 1:29 mark). We...

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    Ride 'Round Long Beach In An Audi R8 Ultra With Mike Skeen: Video

    It would be an amazing experience to run a Pirelli World Challenge car at Long Beach. Heck, we'd be down to run a street car around Long Beach (and your author was fortunate enough to do that, once before). Still, a race car on a city circuit is a wild adventure packed into cozy confines. DON'T...

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    Five Teams To Field Audi R8 LMS ultras In 2014 Nürburgring 24 Hours

    Five teams will contest this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours using the R8 LMS ultra race car, including the factory-backed teams Phoenix Racing and Audi Race Experience. The latter allows virtually anyone to buy a seat on the team, and this year Austrian Daredevil Felix Baumgartner will be...

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    2016 Audi R8 Spy Video

    A prototype for the second generation of Audi’s R8 supercar recently took to Germany’s Nürburgring, and we have an exclusive video of it. As the prototype confirms, Audi’s designers are taking an evolutionary approach to the styling of the new car. Wider and flatter lights...

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    Audi Says The R8 e-tron Is Now Capable Of 280 Miles Range, Confirms Production

    Last December, reports that Audi had decided to put the once-canceled R8 e-tron electric sports car back in the production pipeline first surfaced. The reason? Improved battery technology. Today, during the brand's annual press conference, member of the board of management for technical development...

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    Felix Baumgartner To Race Audi R8 In Nürburgring 24 Hours

    Austrian Daredevil Felix Baumgartner, the man who famously jumped from a height of 24 miles in 2012’s Red Bull Stratos mission, has been confirmed to drive an Audi R8 race car in this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race, set for June. While Baumgartner won’t be...

  • 2014 Audi R8 first drive

    With Lamborghini’s new Huracán out in the open, attention now turns to its Volkswagen Group platform-mate, the next-generation Audi R8. Expected to launch in 2015, the new R8 should weigh less than the current model, come exclusively with a dual-clutch transmission and, in the U.S. at least, be powered by revised versions of the current model’s naturally aspirated V-8 and V-10 engines. However, in certain markets we may see the car offered with a turbocharged engine displacing less than the 4.2 liters of the current model’s V-8. Speaking with Autocar, Audi R&D...

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    Audi R8 V10 Named Official Safety Car Of Daytona

    Audi will be pacing and racing the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona.

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    Daytona 24-Hour Audi R8 LMS GTD Driver Lineups, Liveries Revealed

    The 2014 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona is coming up sooner than you'd think, and with it, the merged American Le Mans Series and Grand Am racing now known as the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Audi will be among the major manufacturers contending for the inaugural title, bringing a total of four...

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    The Price Is Right Contestant Wins Audi R8 Spyder

    The Price Is Right seems like it would be a fun show to attend. It would be more fun, of course, to be picked and even better to wind up on stage alongside host Drew Carey. Sure, you might not be playing for the most desirable prizes, but then again... maybe you might. Such was the case for Sheree...

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    Audi R8 e-tron Back On The Table Due To New Battery Tech: Report

    Earlier this year, Audi decided to cancel production plans for its R8 e-tron electric sports car, citing the high cost of the battery and limited driving range as the reasons behind the decision. Making that decision was former R&D chief Wolfgang Dürheimer, who shortly after was replaced...

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    2016 Audi R8 To Weigh Up To 130 Pounds Less Than Current Car

    A second generation of the Audi R8 is due in the next 12 to 18 months, and while it won’t deviate much from the current formula there will be a few key differences. We already know the new R8 will ride on a revised version of the current car’s platform, once again offer the choice of...

  • Audi R8 LMS testing for United SportsCar series.

    Longtime Porsche client Flying Lizard Motorsports will race the Audi R8 LMS in the inaugural United SportsCar Championship.

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    Audi Library iPad App Shows Off New 2014 R8

    The 2014 R8 is a stunning car, even when rendered in pixels.

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    Mid-Engine Audi nanuk Could Be Built (And Sold) Alongside R8

    When news first broke about the surprise Audi nanuk quattro concept at this week’s Frankfurt Auto Show, some fingers may have been pointed for just a moment—at the close likeness of the nanuk to another concept car from earlier this year: the Giugiaro Parcour. The Parcour was one of the...

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    Seven Audi R8 LMS ultra Race Cars To Tackle 2013 Spa 24 Hours

    A total of seven Audi R8 LMS ultra race cars will be competing in the 2013 Spa 24 Hours endurance race at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium next week. Drivers racing 2012-spec R8 LMS ultras managed a one-two finish in the previous year’s race, and this year they’ll be using...

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    Hugh Jackman Shows Up To Wolverine Premiere In An Audi R8

    A 2014 Audi R8 V10 Spyder stars in the movie The Wolverine and was present at its premiere in London.

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    2014 Audi R8: Joy Ride

    I may be missing something, but the last I heard, I was completely normal for ditching work for a weekend fling with an Audi R8. Maybe you'll understand, after some evidence, why it took about a millisecond to take Audi up on its offer to wing it to Malibu and toss the R8 lineup around some of the...

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