Audi R8 GT: 560 hp Limited Edition

We’ve been waiting a few months, the R8 supercar was being tested on the Nurburgring in a supercharged version, here it is finally the daylight under the patronymic of Audi R8 GT. The program is obviously the engine is at the heart of attention.

The 5.2 V8 FSI goes from 525 to 560 horsepower, a power identical to the version of MTM Tuned, the couple recovering additional 10 Nm to 540 Nm Perhaps most important, and honoring the racing version of Audi R8 GT LMS (Le Mans Series), it a diet based CFRP, in other words carbon fiber, reducing the fund of 100 kg or 1525 kg in total.

Aesthetically, it will seem legitimately more compact, taking 3 inches in width while losing 2 inches tall. In terms of performance, you touch the extreme ….

0 to 100 km/h is lowered from 3.9 to 3.6 seconds, maximum speed, taking a few small km/h, from 316 to 320 km/h. This privilege is reserved for a small panel of 333 amateur mechanics. The price? 193,000 euros, or 43,000 euros more than the lower model.