Audi: so we have no Audi R8 V8 made

Posted on 10-03-2015 at 7:53 by sir_smokalot – 43 Comments”

There was simply not enough demand, according to quattro GmbH boss Heinz Hollerweger. For the same reason, there went a line through the manual gearbox, with its beautiful brushed shift knob.

Before the advent of the new generation R8 was already an open question as to what Audi with the achtcilinder was going to do. Yours truly predicted all that in the introduction in terms of internal combustion engine only a V10 would be available, and thus it came to pass. To still 2 fairly marked variations, it was the V10 Plus a lot of up thrust, with High-specs and nice carbon goodies.

This means that there is no V8? That says absolutely no one, and it may well be that Audi after a year or two just the 4.0 TFSI in the R8 great. Or they will pick up the glove on and make a V6 PHEV, to NSX boils down to bullying. The next RS4 will be a V6 with turbos, so why not the drive in an R8 scoop up, with what batterijwerk from the e-tron?

The story of Hollerweger, who is in Geneva by Automobilemag was interviewed comes to me as a chicken-egg story. With the V8 was nothing wrong, and this was in the early years (also after the introduction of the V10) excellent sold, only is the source of power are overtaken by the developments in the field of supercharging.

And yes, of course, no-one will buy an expensive R8 and then on the Autobahn by a M3 or a C63 pulled out to be, know that Audi also. In order then to argue that poor sales figures tn base layers to the decision, the problem is with the consumer to lay down while you decide what you can do about it.