The 2023 Audi R8 Coupe V10 GT RWD Is One Hell of a Goodbye

Audi’s R8 has been an extremely long-serving and profitable mid-engine supercar for smart individuals who personal dental practices or accounting companies. It’s by some means as face-meltingly quick as its twin, the Lamborghini Huracan, but it surely’s concurrently extra buttoned-down and fewer intimidating. It’s additionally at the moment going the way in which of the thylacine, and that’s unhappy. However earlier than Audi places its mid-engine naturally aspirated supercar out to pasture, the corporate is giving it one final hurrah.

The 2023 Audi R8 Coupe V10 GT RWD can be restricted to only 333 items worldwide, and as swan songs go, it’s fairly good. The yowling 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 engine produces a really wholesome 612 hp and 417 lb-ft of torque, directed by a brand new seven-speed dual-clutch transmission to the rear wheels solely.

It additionally will get a brand new driving mode referred to as “Torque Rear,” which lets drivers choose their stage of stability management intervention. It’s form of like the large sprint knob on a Mercedes-AMG GT R, solely totally different. The vital factor is that it’s going to enable the courageous or foolhardy to dial again their traction management with out essentially turning all of it the way in which off and subsequently yeeting themselves off a cliff and into the ocean or one thing.

Different notable modifications embrace a 44-lb weight discount in comparison with the non-GT RWD Coupe and a black consumption manifold, so nerds 15 years from now will know that you simply have been as soon as very cool, reasonably rich and possessed of a fantastic relationship together with your native Audi vendor. The GT additionally comes with the carbon aerokit as commonplace, which appears fairly boss.

The 2023 Audi R8 Coupe V10 GT RWD will retail for 225,000 euros (at the moment round $220,500, however there are charges and taxes and blah blah, so count on a special worth right here), and it ought to begin reaching clients someday subsequent 12 months.