R8 Next Audi R8 Facelift Exposed in Unofficially Official Photo?

[Gianclaudio]

Does the R8 needs a facelift or even more, a new model? To my eyes it still look more modern than any other car in the segment...... A design way, way ahed of its time.

 

[330CIZHP]

R8 facelift or next generation? If next generation then both Audi and Lamborghini will retain NA V8 and V10 and I respect this very much. A shame BMW is so stubborn.

Definitely a facelift and the article says the engines are updated versions of the current engines.

 

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

Here's a little teast from Audi:

Audi teases "new" R8 while celebrating 5 years of current car

 

[donkeykong]

I can't tell anything from that.

 

[Zafiro]

I can't tell anything from that.

Exactly what Audi wants

 

[Tumbo]

Here's a little teast from Audi:
Audi teases "new" R8 while celebrating 5 years of current car

Great film in there aswell! The R8 is my favorite car ALL TIME.

Does the R8 needs a facelift or even more, a new model? To my eyes it still look more modern than any other car in the segment...... A design way, way ahed of its time.

Co-sign. I would be afraid to touch anything on a car that is 100% perfection.

 

[murcie]

hope Audi doesn't butcher the R8 like they did with the A5

 

[Cashmere]

The only department where the R8 is lacking, is the sequential transmission. I hope it gets a proper dual clutch.

 

[Sunny]

The only department where the R8 is lacking, is the sequential transmission. I hope it gets a proper dual clutch.

I hope it doesn't loose the manual.

 

[donkeykong]

There should be a manual,and DSG options for the facelift.

 

[Levi68]

I do not know when shall it be unveiled, Paris 2012 ?, but this and the new A3 explain why it wasn't present at Geneva 2012.

 

[tristatez28lt1]

I can't tell anything from that.

At 1:21 you can make out the new face. It looks like even the R8 is getting A5 style front lights.

 

[tristatez28lt1]

New?

Old:

 

[Sunny]

^Hot. One of the few things I don't like about the R8 is the christmas light LEDs. So I would love it if it looses them for ones that look more like a solid line

 

[donkeykong]

I wonder how accurate that p.s. is?

 

[Deckhook]

I wonder if the step out section on the side blades will be a thing of past?

 

[tristatez28lt1]

I wonder if the step out section on the side blades will be a thing of past?

If you mean the side blades, it's probably different because the Photoshopped picture's base is a R8 Spyder and the other picture is a R8 V10 coupe. They have different side blades, skirts among other visual touches to distinguish it from the coupe and V8 model.

 

[Deckhook]

^ What I mean is with the current R8 the necessity required more air into the v10 so extended side blades, I wonder with the facelift if they have found another way of getting more air without extending to side panel. Personally it's the least pleasant part of the R8's design.

 

[Levi68]

^ What I mean is with the current R8 the necessity required more air into the v10 so extended side blades, I wonder with the facelift if they have found another way of getting more air without extending to side panel. Personally it's the least pleasant part of the R8's design.

Same opinion as you. The V10 has different side blades, as you to get more air, but the ones of the V8 look cleaner.

 

[tristatez28lt1]

^ What I mean is with the current R8 the necessity required more air into the v10 so extended side blades, I wonder with the facelift if they have found another way of getting more air without extending to side panel. Personally it's the least pleasant part of the R8's design.

The Spyder actually already has the "cleaner" look. V10 and V8 have the same, smaller air intakes. I like it better also.