The German supercar company, Gumpert, last moth claimed to have smashed the Nürburgring lap record for a production car with a lap time of just 7 minutes and 11 seconds in its Audi-powered Gumpert Apollo Sport supercar! That’s 11 seconds faster than the the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR and the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, and 15 [...]
Earlier this year we reported on Nissan testing a GT-R FIA GT1 race car in Japan, last week Nissan Motorsports (Nismo) entered the Nissan GT-R FIA GT1 race car at the Total 24 Hours of Spa endurance race at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. The race car was driven by Michael Krumm of Germany, Darren Turner of [...]
The German car tuning company, PPI Automotive Design GmbH, have produced a more potent, hardcore version of the original PPI Audi R8 Razor, the PPI Audi R8 Razor GTR! The Audi R8 Razor GTR has made its world debut at the Top Marques Monaco 2009, and features the same 4.2-liter V8 powerplant from the R8, [...]
While Audi has recently indicated that the R8 V12 TDI will not see production, there is much better news for the Audi R8 cabrio, with all indications that Audi will definitely be going ahead with a drop-top version of the two-seater supercar. Speculation has it that the cabrio R8 will be available from dealers by [...]
Quite a bit is happening at Audi of late, and not all is good!
It seems the German automaker has shelved plans for a diesel version of the Audi R8 after 12 months of deliberation! Two concept versions the R8 diesel made their appearance last year, first the Audi R8 V12 TDI made its world debut [...]
The best car at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show has got to be the Audi R8 V10 5.2 FSI Quattro, which also made its world debut alongside the Audi Sportback Concept car. Powered by the 5.2-Liter V10 engine from the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4, the mid-engined 2010 Audi R8 V10 5.2 FSI Quattro packs a serious [...]
