Audi R8 breathes its last as final model rolls out – Car News

At any time when a listing of hottest series-production sports activities automobiles is made, the Audi R8 in some way all the time finds itself on the listing. In any case from Virat Kohli to Tony Stark, the R8 has quenched the thirst of each prosperous sports activities automobile fanatic. Sadly, the R8 will quickly be talked about in conversations up to now tense.

Audi has formally pulled the plug on the manufacturing of R8 just lately. The ultimate unit of the luxurious sports activities automobile rolled out from the model’s Bollinger Hofe plant close to Stuttgart on 23 March 2024. This final unit will likely be preserved on the firm’s museum in Ingolstadt. 

The final unit of R8 was wrapped in a Vegas Yellow paint scheme with bronze wheels, and was a coupe with a carbon fibre styling package deal. Audi introduced its plans to part out the R8 again in October 2022. The final 2,000 models of R8 had been presupposed to be produced in 2023. This announcement led to a surge of orders for the previous couple of R8s, which is why Audi reportedly prolonged manufacturing by a couple of extra months.

Audi R8: A wealthy legacy of pace

After making its debut as a  Le Mans Quattro idea on the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Present, the R8 advanced right into a production-spec mannequin three years later. The automobile’s illustrious tenure could be highlighted by a hat trick of wins at 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race between 2000 and 2002 after which once more in 2004 and 2005.

The second-generation R8 was launched on the 2015 Geneva Motor Present. The German marque offered the primary and the second generations of R8 for a restricted interval in India. Sadly after two generations of candy symphonies from V8s and V10s, Audi introduced an finish to the combustion-powered R8. Changing the R8, will likely be an all-electric hypercar which will likely be radically completely different from the outgoing R8.

Audi R8: Unmatched efficiency

Initially, the R8 was powered by a 4.2-litre V8 petrol engine powering the rear wheels. Come 2015, with the launch of the second-gen R8, the V8 was changed by a bigger 5.2-litre naturally aspirated V10 that pumped out 612 bhp sending energy to all 4 wheels by way of Audi’s Quattro all-wheel drive. The final unit has been named the R8 ‘Efficiency Quattro Version’.

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