Audi R8 is a manufacturer’s supercar with rings. Equipped with a naturally aspirated 5.2-liter V10 shared, in particular, with the Lamborghini Huracan, the R8 should soon leave the catalog of the German firm. It remains to be seen which model it will be replaced with, but there’s a good chance Audi will opt for an electric sports car.
Throughout its career, the Audi R8 has been the subject of numerous rumours, sometimes substantiated, sometimes not, particularly regarding a scaled-down version somewhat similar to the first generation, which was available with a V10 but also a V8. Finally, the “smallest” R8 offered by Audi will be a V10 version, but in a 540 hp engine.
Not enough to drastically reduce prices, as with taxes in France, the Audi R8 cost around €200,000. Still, a small version with the Volkswagen Group’s turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 might have made sense to keep the price down. Perhaps she would have walked through the flowerbeds of the Audi TT RS, which with its 400 hp. is also a small supercar in terms of power.
Audi R8 for purists?
Speaking of the Audi TT RS, the ring firm would work on the R8, but with the famous five-cylinder most powerful TT and RS 3. The information came from Marcos Márquez, project manager for synthetic fuel production at Porsche, who gave an interview to journalist Steve Sutcliffe for The Intercooler magazine.
Even better, this Audi R8 would be eligible for a five-cylinder 2.5-liter TFSI, and to the transmission only to the rear wheels and a manual gearbox. As such, this model would be the opposite of the second-generation R8 launched in 2015, which was only available with a V10 and an automatic transmission. Most of the versions sold were also four-wheel drive, until the arrival of rear-wheel drive versions, organized by the limited edition RWS introduced in 2017.
As powerful as a V10?
Marcos Marquez clarified, in particular, that the five-cylinder R8 is expected almost as good as the V10, with more torque than the ten-cylinder’s 540 Nm. A five-cylinder engine would also reduce consumption and CO2 emissions.2, while not losing productivity.
“It’s a shame, because the five-cylinder turbo engine was a good engine, powerful and sounded different. I think it would work well in R8. The car was also lighter and more nimble, but maybe some people at Audi Sport thought it didn’t look like a real R8, so they decided the car wouldn’t see the light of day.”– says Marcos Marquez.
Source: Auto Plus
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