Audi’s RS6 Avant is a properly fast car that can haul all of your luggage to a ski lodge in the Alps with ease, while the R8 Spyder can carry little more than a holdall. But both are more evenly matched in a drag race than you might think…
Listen to the roar of the Audi R8 V10 Spyder.
Honda’s new NSX takes on two of its key rivals, the Porsche 911 Turbo
and the Audi R8 V10. Steve Sutcliffe puts the cars through their paces
on a hot lap of our test track. Which is fastest?
The headline numbers for all the latest versions of Audi’s R8 tend to include the words lighter, stiffer and faster, and this deeply sexy new £129,990 Spyder model is no exception.
Since 2012 McLaren’s line-up has ballooned from one car to eight – and one of the latest arrivals is the McLaren 570S. Based on similar carbon fibre underpinnings to its stablemates, the newcomer is designed as a supercar you can live with day to day.
Cars.co.za road test editor Ashley Oldfield tests the new Audi R8 V10
Plus quattro at the Kyalami race track during the South African media
launch of the Ingolstadt-based firm’s latest supercar.
We test the brand new 2015 Audi R8 V10 Plus against the Porsche 911 Turbo S to find out which is fastest on track.
There’s a new R8 in town, and while you can’t have it with a manual gearbox you can have it without a turbocharger in sight. A rare thing nowadays, and it’s only becoming rarer.
Dragtimes presents: BMW M6 (F13) Evotech Stage 2 (800 HP) vs Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4 (610 HP) vs Audi R8 V10 S-Tronic (550 HP).
Potter & Rich went full out on their tuning proposal for the limited production, first-gen Audi R8 V10 Plus named the “RECON MC8”.
