Audi’s able R8 band will be about complete back the fresh Audi R8 GT goes on auction in a month. Only the R8 GT Spyder charcoal to acquisition its way into showrooms this fall.
The R8 GT is a lighter, added powerful, better-handling adaptation of the Audi R8 V10 you already love. Software changes choke 560 hp from its 5.2-liter, direct-injection V10 at 8,000 rpm while torque now peaks at 398 lb-ft at 6,500 rpm. Some carbon-fiber trim advanced and rear, forth with aerodynamic improvements such as a abiding rear addition and a double-lipped splitter in advanced accumulate the car on the ground. Ability is baffled through the six-speed, single-clutch R Tronic manual with paddles on the wheel–right for upshifts, larboard for down. Ability still goes to all four auto via Audi’s patented quattro system.
What is it like to drive?
Audi didn’t appetite to accord up the basal adequate appearance of the R8 back it fabricated the GT, so it is still a adequately affable gran turismo cruiser, admitting its cogent achievement upgrades. A fresh set of adjustable coilovers ride at anniversary corner, blurred the car 0.4 inch. Low-profile, DOT-legal Competition 235/35 advanced and 295/30 Pirelli PZero Corsa R02 elastic absorbed the pavement able-bodied but had apparent chunks eaten out of the alfresco bend afterwards a day of agog lapping at Infineon Raceway.
We had the manual set in action approach for quicker accouterment but larboard the absorption ascendancy on. The 5.2-liter V10 has huge affluence of torque, acceptance you to break in fourth accessory through the carousel, for instance, with affluence of balance delivered to all four auto to ability you out of the avenue and barrage you up the acropolis to about-face seven. We did apprehension that the car yawed a bit added than we ability accept accepted if we were on or off the burke added aback than we should accept been in turns. But it never got out of band and the adherence ascendancy was never intrusive.
It’s a GT car a little added than it is a sports car, but it acquainted sportier on this alley advance than, say, the accepted Audi R8 or its Lamborghini Gallardo cousin. Application the congenital barrage ascendancy on the pit straight, we got 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds. The carbon-ceramic brakes, which never appropriate any achromatize admitting actuality thrashed about the clue all day, brought the car from 60 mph to a standstill in 108 feet, accomplished for a car that weighs 3,538 pounds.
Do I appetite one?
You do if you accept $196,800, the amount after destination and afore spending on any options, such as $6,000 for matte-finish paint. You could about brainstorm application this as a track-day toy, one that you could calmly drive to and from the track. Though we never got off the collapsed pavement of Infineon, we absurd it would feel Audi adequate on best paved surfaces. How about a track-day action aristocratic amid this, a Porsche GT3 RS, a Lexus LFA, a Nissan GT-R and a Ferrari 458 Italia? That sounds like a chase alternation we’d pay to watch.
On Sale: One ages from now
Base Price: $196,800, additional destination
Powertrain: 560-hp, 398-lb-ft, commonly aspirated, gasoline-direct-injection V10; AWD, six-speed single-clutch consecutive automated manual with paddle shifters
Curb Weight: 3,538 lb
0-60 MPH: 3.6 sec (AW)
60-0 MPH: 108 anxiety (AW)
Fuel Economy: 13 mpg city, 19 mpg hwy, 15 mpg accumulated (mfr)
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