Report: Audi Planning 600-Horsepower R10 Supercar

[Administrator]

Audi is reported to be planning a new supercar that would fit in above the R8 in the company's lineup. Based on the same platform as the successor to the Lamborghini Murciélago, the new supercar would be mid-engined and use a version of Audi's aluminum spaceframe chassis, with bits of carbon fiber added in to further reduce weight.

Even more exciting is the possibility that this vehicle, both wider and longer than the R8, would use a turbocharged 5.0-liter V10 motor to make as much as 600-hp! When combined with Audi's quatro system, this new Audi supercar could then be capable of a 0-60 mph run of around 3.5 seconds.

The report comes from the U.K.s AutoExpress, which claims that several prototypes of the car have already been testing on the Nürburgring, but have been disguised as Lamborghinis.

As for the name, one has to assume Audi would continue to use the names of its race cars, with the R10 following the R8 on the track.

More: Report: Audi Planning 600-Horsepower R10 Supercar on AutoGuide.com

[Davey_Dee]

Looks like AnOutsider was right! It was today! Lol

[Monkey boy UK]

Looks like AnOutsider was right! It was today! Lol

Yes, AnOutsider was spot on! if only i was a betting man, good call...

[AnOutsider]

*bows graciously*

Not like it matters. They probably don't even read the forums to know that we're openly mocking them.

[gazza1]

I want one!!!..like all the others for my garage.

[ianerrid]

"... aluminum spaceframe chassis, with bits of carbon fiber added in to further reduce weight."... with bits of CF added??? - who rote dat teknikal artikal?

[Bodhii]

Longer and wider?..This is going in the wrong direction completely. SUV size sports cars? No thanks.

Anyone who thinks that just adding HP makes a larger sports car equal to lighter, more nimble cars, has much much more to learn about sports cars.

Dear Audi,
The R8 is a PERFECT size and a most wonderful platform. Put your genius new technologies into making the R8 platform the lightest, most powerful, most nimble sports car ever made. Make a comparable R8 RS model that would go in an identical class as the Porsche GT3 RS, yet be better and faster in ever way. Accomplish this goal first, and then go make your strange Giant German Great Godzilla sports car. A Porsche 911 GT3 rivalry against a similar equipped Audi R8 'GT3' model, is the most perfect candidate in the whole world to inspire a legendary rivalry that would have real sports car enthusiasts lining up to buy their particular choice. It would be a legendary marketing rivalry that would hugely benefit BOTH companies.

[harrison]

To shed rather than add. After the Rossion info, this new Audi stuff sounds Ludicrous! :

[ianerrid]

+1! I am with the Colin Chapman principle (only with a bit more margin than Colin..) Seriously I don't want a longer and particularly wider R8, it's on the edge now IMHO

[randombloke]

Seriously I don't want a longer and particularly wider R8,

that isn't what they're suggesting - this is a new model to sit above the r8 in the realm of impractical hypercar.