Audi announced Monday it would be bringing its next-gen R8 to the 2015 Geneva Auto Show in March, with two versions set for the ramp.
CarAdvice.com.au reports one of the versions bowing in Geneva will be an all-electric model promising future owners a range of around 250-310 miles per charge. The range figure is the result of Audi tech development board member Ulrich Hackenberg pulling the plug on the previous R8 e-tron project due to its low 136-mile range:
First I did agree to stop such a project. The project had to be re-engineered because the range was 220km – it was not enough. So what I made with the team was to continue to work on this, and we could realise between 400 and 500 [kilometres battery range]. Or something beyond 400km.
The revised R8 e-tron will be joined by a gasoline-powered version that will lose its manual transmissions entirely, going all in on dual-clutch automatics instead. Hackenberg says that such gearboxes are best “for the record of [one’s] personal lap time” over rowing one’s own.
Looks like a waterbug roach
I can only hope the final version gets some more detailing than that blank shell we’re seeing now.
It definitely resembles a roach, but I think it looks more like an overpriced beetle.
Who would buy this heap of hot trash when, for the same amount of rupee’s, you could own an NSX or an AMG GT?
:)
Show me an NSX for sale in a showroom now, which isn’t used.
What’s an AMG GT?
“What’s an AMG GT?”
That Mercedes coupe with a serious case of Porschebutt.
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/future/model/model-All_New_2016_C190_AMG_GT
It is sexy.
Oh THAT. I thought that was like SLS- or SLS Lite or something.
The AMG GTS thingy looks a Z4 after scarfing a pallet of Twinkies.
Now that’s Beast Mode. So cool looking.
It really IS about time to replace this model. It’s been around since what, 08? Not that there’s much wrong with the current model; I think it’s aged and been updated nicely. But still – super car customers expect the latest and greatest, and the current R8 has not been that for about 4 years.
I have always been a huge fan of the R8 – this is my dream car. Beautiful, powerful, and not unreasonable to actually drive day-to-day.
+1
One of the few cars that I like in every color variant too.
I don’t like it in silver, because that seems to make it too “standard Audi” looking. But every other color, yes!