Audi R8 GT v R8 LMS supercar video

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Audi R8 GT v R8 LMS supercar video

Think the new GT is the most extreme Audi R8 supercar you can buy? Think again...

With a price of £145,645, a power output of 552bhp and a 0-62mph time of just 3.6 seconds the Audi R8 GT is the most extreme road-going version of the R8 to date. However, it’s not the most extreme version of the R8 that you can buy. That title belongs to the R8 LMS.

In the same way that Porsche sells its RSR 911s, Audi is offering this GT3 race spec R8 to customers for around €300,000. To find out what it’s like, Marino Franchitti took us for a few laps around Blyton Park…

http://www.evo.co.uk/videos/supercar...car_video.html




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[SebringSilver]

Awesome. Are you getting one, John?

[CPBRI]

Pretty cool.

Guy did not pull any punches on the R-Tronic. "not the best"

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In the same way that Porsche sells its RSR 911s, Audi is offering this GT3 race spec R8 to customers..

Are you getting one, (R8 LMS)

Not until Audi can actually offer similar club support and owner/driver participation, and also offer a fully organized R8 LMS racing series as Porsche does with their excellent Porsche GT3 Cup and GT RSR race cars.

Of course, such an Audi Club based R8 LMS Race Series, will NEVER even begin to happen until Audi finally offers to us a reasonably priced (think 911 GT3 RS), ultra lightweight, rear wheel drive, street legal/ serious track oriented R8 model that would work as the perfect Audi R8 customer/Audi Club transition car into Audi's full race R8 LMS model and into an Audi Club full R8 racing series. ( This new "R8 GT" is really just a "special edition" of the normal R8 V10, and does not in any way, represent a new, track oriented, GT3 type model, of the Audi R8.)