Italdesign Has Built An Even More Expensive R8-Based Supercar
Remember the bizarre Italdesign supercar based on an Audi R8 but 10 times the price before options? Of course you do. A refresher is right here.
Just five examples of the ZeroUno were built and, presumably, sold. This year the Audi-owned design house is returning to the Geneva Motor Show with a convertible Roadster version designed to mark the firm’s 50th anniversary.
The Roadster will have the same running gear, which is to say the R8 V10 Plus’ running gear; a 5.2-litre V10 that could take the largely carbonfibre coupe past 62mph in 3.2 seconds and on to a top whack of 205mph. The convertible shouldn’t be much, if any slower off the line, but might have a slower top speed owing to the extra drag.
With a double-buttress-style engine cover it’s not obvious whether there’s actually a roof or not. It’s possible that it’s a complex Italian faff-job akin to putting up a borrowed tent using instructions written in Klingon, and it’s also possible that there’s none at all.
The coupe cost £1.3 million before options, so with Italdesign’s pricing in mind the Roadster could easily top £1.5 million plus extras. Even if we win the Euromillions jackpot tonight, we reckon we’d still just take an R8 like this one…
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So same performance as the R8, with the same basis, but costs 6 times more. For that price you mind as well buy the R8 and a custom body shop.
Audi Meeting be like
£1.5 million. I’d rather buy this beautiful facelifted first gen NSX and save the rest of the money for… um… stuff.
On a side note, this one is one of the last 12 first generation NSXs ever built.
How about you use the leftover money for a real R8
You wouldn’t say no to that beautiful stare, would you?
Whoa…with that money, I could finally get myself a RX-7 AND a Coronet! Many RX7s and Coronets!
Looks much better than the coupe but still extremely overpriced
No one here wants it? Ok, more for me :D
All yours buddy, thing is hideous
But it looks great
It still looks like a fish
This thing has enough vents to heat a whole city!
Heh…at least its pretty :/