Then there's its classic race-style mechanical layout and the best technology in the Audi arsenal, including quattro all-wheel-drive. The R8 is beautifully built and has a thumping V8 engine fitted ...

Audi has been diligent about keeping its R8 supercar under wraps, letting lightly camouflaged mules out for only a few titillating test laps around the Nürburgring. Most information about the car ...

October 18, 2007 Audi has labeled its R8 as “the slowest car we’ve ever built” in a new tongue-in-cheek ad campaign designed to bring attention to the laborious process of manufacturing the largely ...

Previewed as the Le Mans concept car at the 2003 Frankfurt motor show (where it claimed our Editors’ Choice Best Concept award), Audi’s Porsche 911-rival is expected to make its world debut at the ...

Audi has made it official, its new high-end sports car will be called the Audi R8, a clear nod to the Audi R8s that have pretty much had their way at every sports car race they’ve entered in the last ...

In the wake of another victory for Audi's diesel R8 at Le Mans last weekend, rumours abound that the German manufacturer is planning to slot one of its oil burners into the R8 supercar. But don't ...

Audi may have retired the R8 last year, but the company still hasn’t fully shut the door on bringing back its flagship ...

I thought rebuilding a neglected 2007 Audi R8 with a V10 swap would be a fun challenge—but it’s turning into an engineering nightmare. Our plan was to drop a 550hp V10 from a 2014 R8 V10 Plus into ...

The Audi R8 was a car that changed people’s perceptions of what an Audi could be. It sent shockwaves through the supercar world back in 2007 when it launched the R8. It wasn’t just good, it was ...

The daily grind of peak-hour traffic is tedious, to say the least. The steam comes blowing out of your ears, the headache kicks in with force and the throbbing hangs around for the remainder of the ...