All Posts Tagged With: "r8"
Audi R8 V10 and Spyder versions to be scarce and dear
Word has it there is an eight-month waiting list for the Audi R8 in the car’s home market of Germany. Here in the good ol’ U.S. of A., the 50 units we get per month are not nearly enough for all of the interested buyers. Well, with V10, convertible and possibly diesel versions in the [...]
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Rent an R8 for $8,000 per day… not including the flight to Tokyo
The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong bought 13 Rolls-Royce Phantoms for shuttling guests around the city. The Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo has purchased just one car, and will leave the guest to drive himself. That car is an R8, finished in the hotel’s trademark Brewster Green, with a gold Peninsula logo outside, and cognac leather [...]
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Baby got back: HSV launches ClubSport R8 Tourer
HSV’s ClubSport R8 Tourer has officially arrived, giving our friends from Down Under the means to haul stuff, ass and any combination thereof as long as they part with $65K AUD. The super-duper Commodore SportWagon has got LS3 V8 power with 425 horses and 405 lb-ft of torque ready to transfer its rear tires to [...]
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Audi develops R8 GT3 racer
The courtship between Audi and GT3-class racing teams has officially begun with the automaker’s announcement that it has developed a GT3 version of the R8 sports car dubbed “R16″ internally by its project overlords at Audi Sport . The rear-drive racer (GT3 regulations prohibit AWD) features a six-speed sequential gearbox, mostly production-spec suspension components, plus [...]
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VIDEO: Audi R8 puts angels in danger in Midnight Club: LA
Midnight Club: LA is on its way, and the developers at Rockstar Games just released a new video of an Audi R8 doing its thing through the concrete jungle. The name of the game: arcade. Or better names might be ‘free-for-all’ and ‘pedestrians, watch out!’ It’s cut like an MTV video, so it’s hard to [...]
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First spy shots of Audi R8 Targa surface
After more than a year of speculation, and even a leaked sketch, we finally have our first spy shots confirming that Audi is developing an open-air version of its R8 supercar. And just to sweeten the deal, the test mule spied is all but completely undisguised.
While nomenclature has yet to be confirmed – possibly using [...]
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Audi insider claims V10 R8 will beat ZR1 around the ‘Ring
Them’s fightin’ words, but when we’re talking about a V10-powered version of the Audi R8, you’d better be taking them seriously. According to an Audi insider as reported by Auto Motor und Sport in Sweden, the more powerful R8 will set a new lap record for a production car at the Nurburgring. That would mean [...]
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VIDEO: Audi’s “The Art of Performance”
A few of the Auto@CooOne crew are former (or current) musicians that have tempered our insatiable lust for all-things-automotive with a healthy appreciation of the aural arts. So whenever an automaker attempts to combine the two, we’re keenly interested in the outcome.
Audi teamed up with the German group Bullet and the graphics and video crew [...]
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Audi R8 debuts as DTM safety car
Audi has announced that its superlative R8 sportscar will serve as the safety car for the ever-popular DTM touring car championship, having also served in the same capacity for the recently-concluded 24 Hours of Le Mans. Audi’s performance division quattro GmbH prepared a pair of R8s for the German racing series – with the second [...]
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Garage: 2008 Audi R8
There’s been considerable debate about whether the Audi R8 is a bona fide supercar, able to hang with the best and brightest from Maranello, Stuttgart and beyond. But power figures and price points don’t tell the whole tale.
What’s been missing from most reviews is how Audi’s midship masterpiece handles the rigors of daily duty. And [...]
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