The Audi R8 was a car that packed many surprises into its long lifespan and two generations. It saved one for the very end; a late spike in demand saw Audi keep it in production for several months ...

Frank Lamberty talks us through the unlikely inspirations behind his uniquely German mid-engine sports car design.

I knew all this before I drove a final-year 2023 Audi R8 during Monterey Car Week at Laguna Seca Raceway, having experienced the exotic German on numerous occasions over the past 15 years.

ABT's limited edition XGT, with a mere 99 units available, is essentially a race car designed and approved for road use. Its blueprint is borrowed from the Audi R8 LMS GT2, in a respectful nod to ...

I think not. Audi wants to make sure the last of the V-10s is remembered for being the closest thing to a street-going race car the brand has ever produced. The heart of the R8 GT is, of course ...

Maybe it needed a real halo – a GT3 RS or STO variant – to remind people of the standard car’s brilliance. Audi flirted with the idea of a wild R8 over the years, but never had the ...

even though Audi had produced an R8 Spyder for the first-gen car back in 2010. "For the first generation, we did 333 coupes and also 333 Spyder," Fischer tells us while talking about the reason ...

“It’s different. It’s a super sports car and we are Audi Sport so of course we are proud to build the R8. It’s not like an A1.” It certainly isn’t. At the end of the R8’s life you ...

Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Audi R8’s retirement party during Monterey Car Week. The 15-year-old R8 stretched its legs on official company business one final time on Aug. 19 ...

The R8 is one of only two cars on sale today with a V10 and the five-cylinder turbo unit in the Audi TT RS is the last of its kind in series production. As electric power beckons for the cars ...