just found this a few minutes ago. wow this car is gonna be sick.
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/09/27/paris-motor-show-say-hello-to-the-audi-r8/

Nice find. The official R8 page is cool too.

If I did the conversion right it weighs 3435lbs with 420hp. That should be fairly quick. I wish they could have shaved it down to 3000 flat. The costs would have gone thru the roof even more though.

Is this going to be a $90,000+ car?

pretty sure the V8 version first coming out will start below 100k, and the V10 one coming later will be way over, with the engine from the gallardo.

Mr. Gorman, I'm gonna hafta send you my trouser-cleaning bill, for posting that seriously AWSOME find... Gonna hafta start saving my pocket change, NOW!!!

November Road and Track has an article about a R8 cabrio that's in concept fase...

Yha Yha I subscribe....

The latter feature is yet another visual highlight. The observer looks right onto the V8, the very heart of this sports car. Indirect engine compartment lighting by white LEDs, enabling the engine to be seen even in the dark, is available as an option.

^^ wow...

Now I'm starting to think thats one beautiful car, I esp like the engine lighting option.

Is Audi considering this car a Super car or Sports Car?

And is this the final product or will their be changes to the body or interior prior to it's debut?


I love the design of this car in and out and hope it stays that way. [sm=smiley20.gif]

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sooooooo hot

ORIGINAL: playa256

They should post a list of people who buy it with the slush box so that they can be put on a collective hit-list.

I laughed pretty hard at this comment.

yea that car is sick... wish I had that kinda money

I think I'm going to start a paypal account for this.

You guys put money into it, I get an R8, and I post pictures here for you to see :)

the rings are on the hood and not on hte grlle!

Why is it so heavy and why not the V12 tdi.

That car is Beautiful!! ONe day i will have one lol and an rs4 for the family haha!

Now that's a dream car... :)

Sweet!

The official site is

http://www.audi.com/R8

Check it out yourself!

Anyone know what the retail price of this will be when it is released? I'd better start saving!

dealer told me about $120k (prob about $100k plus mark-up due to the limited production!!)- and spring '07.
deposit required is a lot less!!

ORIGINAL: barkley1979

Anyone know what the retail price of this will be when it is released? I'd better start saving!

So thats going to be about £60,000. But judging by UK prices they'll add a bit extra on there just 'cause they can. Time to remortgage the house.

i saw it at the la auto show...

it so crazy... i'll post pics later...

i have a bunch of cool pics, i even got to sit in the rs4, just cuz i flirted with the display chick...

i spent a good hour at the audi display, the exibit was best in show, in my opinion

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from l.a. autoshow...

(darn- tried to post pics, but keep getting message that file is too large- even when i try to upload one at a time)

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I agree, this looks amazing! Wish I could afford it...but it's nice to look anyway. Here's some more info I found.
http://www.cargurus.com/blog/2006/11/21/nurture-your-inner-speed-racer-the-2008-audi-r8/#comments

Hmmm. Do I want the R tronic with paddle shifters? Or the automatic?

http://carsmedia.ign.com/cars/image/article/736/736633/audi-r8-20060929044854463.jpg

ORIGINAL: KiloByte

Now I'm starting to think thats one beautiful car, I esp like the engine lighting option.


+1 the lighting option is going to be pretty original

I'll take it in all black, black windows, rs4 tires with black calipers.


Now rings that light up red on the front and back, that would be friggin sweet.