Audi has officially pulled the plug on the production of R8 recently.
The final unit of the luxury sports car rolled out from the brand’s Bollinger Hofe plant near Stuttgart on 23 March 2024. This last unit will be preserved at the company’s museum in Ingolstadt. (Image: TopGear)
Audi announced its plans to phase out the R8 back in October 2022. High demand led production to extend by a few months.
The last unit of R8 was wrapped in a Vegas Yellow paint scheme with bronze wheels, and was a coupe with a carbon fibre styling package. (Image: TopGear)
After making its debut as a Le Mans Quattro concept at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show, the R8 evolved into a production-spec model three years later.
The second-generation R8 was introduced at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Sadly after two generations of sweet symphonies from V8s and V10s, Audi brought an end to the combustion-powered R8.
Replacing the R8, will be an all-electric hypercar which will be radically different from the outgoing R8.
Initially, the R8 was powered by a 4.2-litre V8 petrol engine powering the rear wheels.
Come 2015, with the launch of the second-gen R8, the V8 was replaced by a larger 5.2-litre naturally aspirated V10 that pumped out 612 bhp sending power to all four wheels via Audi’s Quattro all-wheel drive.