Audi fans dismayed at the electric Concept C acting as an R8 successor will find comfort today. The upcoming electric sports car is in fact not the R8 replacement. More over, Audi’s CEO just hinted we might indeed be getting a proper third act to the R8.
Earlier in May, in Austria, days ahead of the 2027 RS5 media launch Audi CEO Gernot Dollner told journalists, “It’s a great V8 engine in the Temerario. 10,000 rev, really outstanding engine” when asked about producing a third-generation R8.
That wasn’t a no, and the CEO seems to know the Lamborghini V8’s redline number off the top of his head. Weird.
Dollner continued without pausing, “And as I said, I mean, we have these opportunities at Volkswagen group to come up from the different technical solutions and combine them. And I mean, the C sport is an example that we build a car with character based on a Porsche platform.
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Author: Joel Feder
