Audi R8 News

An Audi R8 being driven westbound on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto late on Monday somehow caught on fire, with the flames eventually engulfing most of the exotic sports car. Fire crews were quick on the scene but weren’t able to save the R8, which became nothing but a smoldering heap...

Audi’s first e-tron electric car, the high-performance R8 e-tron, is in the final stages of development ahead of its sales debut towards the end of the year. Here we have an exclusive spy video of a prototype conducting some high-speed runs at Germany’s Nürburgring race track. Audi...

We've previously shown you spy shots of Audi's planned facelift for the 2013 R8, including in the Spyder bodystyle, but these latest shots show the car virtually undisguised. The facelifted R8 range, both in coupe and convertible bodystyles, is expected to be unveiled later this year. We’re...

An Audi R8 LMS ultra was driven to overall victory at the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race.

Subaru unveiled the Advanced Tourer Concept at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show last December, and we all thought it was previewing the next-generation Legacy and Outback. Motor Trend now reports that the concept actually hints at the next-generation WRX. The front-end design of the new WRX will...

Celebrating Facebook fan milestones with videos of cars doing cool stuff has become a bit of a meme with carmakers of late, and we're not going to argue with it. Burning rubber on video is roughly 30 percent of what the Internet was made for. OK, so we made that figure up, but it sounds about right...

Video footage taken at a busy intersection in Russia shows a frightening accident involving a speeding Audi R8 driver who crashes into another vehicle and speeds off, even though the other vehicle is flipped over from the impact. The video shows the R8 driver attempting to complete a U-turn on a...

Audi hasn’t kept its planned update of the R8 supercar much of a secret, even releasing a video with a glimpse of the new car during the R8’s fifth birthday celebration last month. One of our spy photographers has now spotted a prototype for the updated R8 Spyder model, which is...

Audi is bringing back last year's successful #WantAnR8 Twitter campaign, and entrants can win the use of an Audi R8 for the day.

Audi's mid-engined wundercar, the R8, is five years old--soon to be six. Six models have been built, and soon, the facelifted, updated 2013 model will be on the scene. This video gives us a tiny taste of what to expect--and a look back on what's already been. While the whole 90-second run of the...

With just 333 units to be built worldwide, and only 50 of those bound for the U.S., the hand-built Audi R8 GT Spyder isn't just a high-performance roadster, it's an extremely exclusive one. It's priced to match, too, starting from $210,000 plus a $1,200 delivery fee. If you've forgotten what the R8...

Audi's R8 Grand-Am will make its competition debut at this weekend's Rolex 24 at Daytona.

British limousine specialist Limo Broker has done the unthinkable and announced plans to destroy a perfectly good Audi R8 in order to convert it into a stretch limo. Worse than the Maserati Quattroporte limo we previously saw for sale on eBay, and possibly even the stretched Ferrari we saw at the...

It seems there’s no limit to what Audi’s R8 LMS race cars can do. Since its launch in 2009, the stunning race car has seen 115 victories and 12 national or international titles in the hands of Audi’s customers. More recently the race car, in Grand-Am trim, has been preparing for...

The biggest update to the Audi R8 supercar may be coming next year, with reports coming out of Europe suggesting that a facelifted version of the Audi flagship is planned. While we’ve previously reported on a second-generation R8 due in 2014, this is the first time that details of an update...

Ferrari’s new 458 Italia Grand-Am race car isn’t the only hot euro making its debut at next month’s 2012 Daytona 24 Hours endurance race. The new Audi R8 Grand-Am, seen for the first time testing on American soil, has successfully passed its baptism by fire. The new model was...

Audi's successful R8 LMS GT3 race car is being retired after the 2011 season, replaced by the new R8 LMS ultra.

As we reported just last week, the Volkswagen Group is likely to call on Porsche to develop an advanced mid-engine vehicle platform that will eventually spawn the replacements for the Audi R8 and Lamborghini Gallardo, as well as a new supercar to slot in between the Porsche 911 GT2 RS and upcoming...

After proving that Americans will spend serious money to climb behind the wheel of a stock car, the Richard Petty Experience is expanding to include exotic cars.

We've been hearing all kinds of things about the next-gen Audi R8. Specifically, we've heard that it will ride on an all-new, lightweight carbon-aluminum platform. Despite having a pretty extensive carbon fiber lab to draw experience from over at sister company Lamborghini, Audi feels that the...