Audi Is Not Planning Any Future R8s Beyond This Generation

Reports emerging after the Geneva Motor Show suggest that Audi isn't planning to build a direct replacement for the current R8
Audi Is Not Planning Any Future R8s Beyond This Generation

The Audi R8 could suddenly find itself running on borrowed time, with reports suggesting there’s no planned replacement.

In a round-table interview at the Geneva Motor Show, Audi’s R&D chief Peter Mertens is said to have told journalists that there are no plans to replace the R8 with a like-for-like new model, meaning the R8 as we know it could be doomed.

We'll keep fond memories, at least
We'll keep fond memories, at least

While there is a twin-turbo V6 in development to fit the R8 chassis, which will be a hell of a change from the glorious naturally-aspirated V10 we know and love deeply, the car’s eventual replacement will almost certainly be electrified.

Talking about the R8’s future, Mertens said the R8 has a “long life” left in it and that a direct replacement wasn’t impossible yet, but that there were no plans to do so, apparently because the development budget has been reallocated to batteries, motors and associated EV technologies.

Audi Is Not Planning Any Future R8s Beyond This Generation

There will at least be faster versions of whatever electrified cars come out of the Audi stable in the future. Mertens was quoted as saying that performance cars are “very good for Audi.”

Fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars are likely, alongside pure combustion-powered cars in whatever form they take before being banned in various countries.

Source: Car & Driver

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Comments

Dante Verna

You can’t just replace a V10 with a V6!

03/15/2018 - 20:16 |
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H4R1S_01

It will probably come back in 20 years as an SUV

03/15/2018 - 20:33 |
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mitsubishi eclipse intensifies

03/15/2018 - 23:05 |
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Kdbabarth

You can pick up a first gen for 40k now. Damn

03/15/2018 - 21:30 |
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Anonymous

aww :(

i quite liked the r8

03/15/2018 - 23:05 |
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eXoZGaming

so what happens to lamborghini?

03/15/2018 - 23:39 |
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Lamborghini is the reason they drop the R8. They suddenly realized that they are selling 2 exactly the same cars and both of those are competing with each other on the market.

03/16/2018 - 01:11 |
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ThatCarDude 1

Somebody had to do it….

03/16/2018 - 01:33 |
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The Stig's Canadian Cousin 1

Oh no! I guess YouTubers will only have GT-R’s to drive…

03/16/2018 - 04:40 |
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Anonymous

Rather not seeing an R8 than seeing with a twin turbo V6

03/16/2018 - 06:41 |
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=ash=

Another day, another legend is killed off.

03/16/2018 - 08:44 |
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Anonymous

Damn it, I suspected this would happen but hoped it wouldn’t

03/16/2018 - 09:52 |
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