SECRET AUDI R8 RS
Secret Audi R8 RS World-first glimpse of ultimate R8, range-topper promises 600bhp, lighter physique and even added driver-focused performance
Could this be the ultimate R8? When our spy columnist spotted this Audi supercar bushing up at a petrol base just alfresco the Nürburgring analysis clue in Germany, he initially didn’t anticipate abundant of it.
But then, afterpiece analysis appear some arresting data which announce it ability be a new RS archetypal – to sit aloft the boss 552bhp 5.2-litre V10-engined R8 GT.
This abstruseness ancestor – which could be badged GT RS – wears a host of motorsport-sourced locations which point to an even faster, added able and added driver-focused machine.
Take a abutting attending at the images and you’ll see that as able-bodied as the Audi motorsport-style stripes and an all-new ground-hugging foreground splitter and ancillary skirts, the ancestor gets a artificial engine awning and huge ancillary air intakes aerial anon from the R8 LMS antagonism car.
But conceivably the a lot of arresting modification is the way the exhausts avenue just beneath tail-lamp acme in the centre of the rear bonanza – abrogation broad holes area the accepted pipes would be. This is an adjustment which comes beeline from the chase track. Huge brakes complete the exoteric package.
Inside, the motorsport affair continues with a stripped-out berth that boasts little added than a brace of Recaro antagonism seats to accumulate the disciplinarian and commuter durably in abode at top speed.
In fact, about the alone data the car is missing are a cycle cage and a ample downforce-generating rear wing. Audi is actual tight- lipped on the activity for now, but there’s no agnosticism an even added driver-focused R8 would address to buyers afterward the acknowledged accession accustomed by the R8 GT.
With even added ability (perhaps up to 600bhp), beneath weight and potentially rear-wheel drive alone – the GT retains rear-biased four-wheel drive – this would finer be a awful absolute roadgoing antagonism car, agnate to Porsche’s 911 GT2 RS.
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