LAST AUTO NEWS – ELECTRIC R8 READY TO LIGHT UP FRANKFURT?
Last Auto account – Electric R8 accessible to ablaze up Frankfurt? Electric R8 could be on the cards, while cabrio adaptation is go!
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AUDI could anon be giving the byword â??electrifying performance’ new meaning! Insiders at the German close accept told Auto Express that it is planning to acknowledge an electric adaptation of its R8 supercar at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.
It’s acceptable to yield the anatomy of a affecting abstraction car, agnate in architecture to the head-turning Audi RSQ, which previewed the R8 in the sci-fi blur I, Robot aback in 2004.
In the Will Smith movie, the RSQ was powered by electricity – and it seems that it could be rather prophetic.
Audi administration are accepted to be agog on the abstraction of another ability for the R8, accepting already planned a V12 TDI diesel-engined version, afore accepting to can it as a aftereffect of the accepted bread-and-butter downturn, as appear by Auto Express in Issue 1,062.
And that’s area a zero-emissions archetypal could footfall in. The VW Group’s electric powertrains are already awful avant-garde – VW itself will yield the wraps off a constituent ancestors car abstraction at Frankfurt (see Issue 1,065) – and the R8 would be an ideal advertise for a achievement version, rivalling Tesla’s Roadster.
While Audi is befitting tight-lipped about the idea, it has accepted that it will yield the wraps off a drop-top R8 Spyder adaptation at Frankfurt.
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