Super Sport Car Evolution: Audi Abt R8

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Audi Abt R8

How fast your heart beat when you see this new Abt R8 sport car at the 2007 Essen Motor Show ? Abt Sportsline just debuted the final version re-designed Audi R8 sports car.

Abt Sportsline, the greatest tuner for vehicles from the Volkswagen group, is based. With the new Abt R8, the term "improvement" is set one level higher as this car combines technical competence and brilliant design from Abt and results in an automobile masterwork.

Not more and not less. The Abt R8 is a fantasticsuper sports car, playing in the same league as Lamborghini Gallardo or Ferrari F430.

"The fluently dynamic form of the car is unique, it looks like having a lot of power, even when standing still," admits the managing director and therewith he raises the bar for his engineers and designers.

The Abt R8 features a carbon-fiber dominated body kit consisting of front, side and rear skirts, rear wing and two-piece side blades.
Since the release of screaming orange R8 illustrations, a major styling revision is the change from horizontal to vertical slats sported on the front end's side air intakes.

The Abt R8 has undergone fine-tuning to suspension upgrades for improved road holding, featuring Abt springs and car lowering, while an Abt sports brake system with discs of 380 mm diameter sets new standards in responsiveness.

Previous talk of a 530 hp Abt supercharged 4.2-litre V8 has disappeared from the specsheet, with nothing as yet alluded to in the new press release. Based on previous reports, a top speed of 317 kph and 0-100 kph acceleration in 3.9 seconds is to be achieveable.

If you not go to the 2007 Essen Motor Show, check the live shots of great new Abt R8 after the jump.