The next generation Audi R8 should be a worthy successor to the current one as it will only have two doors and more power than anything else offered by the Ingolstadt brand. The only difference will be: it will be powered by electricity. At least according to information published by the British website Autocar, which refers to anonymous sources within the automaker.
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The current Audi R8 has been sold since 2015 with an eight or ten-cylinder engine without a turbocharger; in recent years only with the V10, but again you can choose between rear or all-wheel drive. Production is expected to end in 2023.
The Audi R8 is an even stronger rear wheel at the end of its life
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The workers making the R8 today will remain at the German plant in Böllinger Höfe and help increase production of the e-tron GT, the British write. Within a few years, they should have enough experience working on an electric sports car so they can start working on an electric R8.
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And they have to produce it again mainly by hand. “Of course we will keep the handwork, as that is what sets the R8 apart from the rest of the portfolio. If we introduce the successor of the R8 (official confirmation is not yet available – ed), we will try to continue manual production. It is important to customers, “cites the website Sebastian Grams, head of the Audi Sport division.
First trip with the Audi R8 after restyling: Mr. Perfect among super sports cars
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As for the technical basis, the automaker has a rather large choice. Most likely, the site speculates, however, it will use a platform developed in collaboration with Porsche. One possibility is the SSP Sport, which will soon replace the J1 platform used by the Taycan and e-tron GT models.
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Another is a different platform that Porsche is developing for the successor to today’s conventional 718 series models. The goal of this is to get the car on it to drive like a mid-engined sports car; wants to achieve this by storing the batteries vertically behind the seats, where today’s 718 and Audi R8 have an internal combustion engine.
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