[R8 BKK]

Some interesting information gleaned from Audi annual reports. Where a mis-match between the 'this year' vs 'last year' figures, I have used the last year historic figures as hopefully more accurate.

2006 164
2007 2952
2008 5016
2009 2024 coupe & 77 Spyder
2010 1916 coupe & 1250 Spyder
2011 2039 coupe & 1512 Spyder
2012 1295 coupe & 946 Spyder
2013 1578 coupe & 922 Spyder
2014 1382 coupe & 832 Spyder

Thus gives a total production 2006 to 2014 of some 23,905.
I am surprised at how low the figures are as I always believed the factory had a capacity of about 25 a day but it explains the relative rarity on the roads.

 

[Monkey boy UK]

That's very interesting data, would also be nice to know breakdown on models types, V8 V10 etc

 

[OEM-Motorsports]

I have seen it reported that there have been over 40,000 R8s produced.

 

[PunjabiM3]

I read somewhere there have been over 60k produced. I highly doubt it though as that is more in line with production numbers of e92 M3's, and I doubt there are as early as many R8's as e92 M3's. Anyone know for sure since we all have read something different as far as production?

 

[default]

I wonder what % of those are in the US

 

[R8 BKK]

The numbers above are directly from the audi.com website where you can download the full annual report for each year. One year does mention a number of R8 LMX in the 300's produced (included in the totals above), but there are no splits by country or V8 / V10.

It would not surprise me that for marketing reasons, Audi have sometimes inflated their figures but would hope the annual accounts are reasonably accurate.

 

[r1]

Here's a back door but straight forward approach to estimating total production - with a surprising result. It is adding all U.S. yearly sales and taking the word of Audi R8 Product Manager (Mark Fruechtnicht, c.2013) as reliable when he stated that "about a third" of total R8 world production is sold in the U.S.

Extrapolating 2015 U.S. sales to the upper range (by purposely adding 700+ cars) and reaching ~870 would equate to a grand total of about 7000* cars having been sold in the U.S. through 2015. Allowing for a margin of error around the 33.3% U.S. estimate of total sales (and no MY2006,) simple math based upon adding 2X the U.S. figure to the same U.S. figure results in a total production/sales figure in a projected range of ~20,000 - 25,000 cars - consistent with previous post of 'R8 BKK' and lower than many other projections.

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U.S. sales
2006 -
2007 = 240
2008 = 900
2009 = 699
2010 = 799
2011 = 1145
2012 = 802
2013 = 813
2014 = 735
2015 = 170 (Mar 31)
__________
6303 (+700,est.)
= ~7000,est.*
________

 

[OEM-Motorsports]

40,000 has been mentioned in several videos for the launch of the Gen 2
Will try to dig something out.

 

[OEM-Motorsports]

We have the exact figures from Volkswagen AG.

Through the end of 2014 the total production across all Audi R8 models was 25,998

 

[Dimitri]

I didn't know they produced 2010 syders

 

[aquarianuw]

No wonder the R8's are rare.

Here's a back door but straight forward approach to estimating total production - with a surprising result. It is adding all U.S. yearly sales and taking the word of Audi R8 Product Manager (Mark Fruechtnicht, c.2013) as reliable when he stated that "about a third" of total R8 world production is sold in the U.S.

Extrapolating 2015 U.S. sales to the upper range (by purposely adding 700+ cars) and reaching ~870 would equate to a grand total of about 7000* cars having been sold in the U.S. through 2015. Allowing for a margin of error around the 33.3% U.S. estimate of total sales (and no MY2006,) simple math based upon adding 2X the U.S. figure to the same U.S. figure results in a total production/sales figure in a projected range of ~20,000 - 25,000 cars - consistent with previous post of 'R8 BKK' and lower than many other projections.

--------------
U.S. sales
2006 -
2007 = 240
2008 = 900
2009 = 699
2010 = 799
2011 = 1145
2012 = 802
2013 = 813
2014 = 735
2015 = 170 (Mar 31)
__________
6303 (+700,est.)
= ~7000,est.*
________

We have the exact figures from Volkswagen AG.

Through the end of 2014 the total production across all Audi R8 models was 25,998