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Burned Audi R8 was a prototype of the Audi RS8

Luxurious submitted on 11/27/2007 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 10:57:44 AM

16 user comments | Category: Spy Shots | Source: | SOURCE: auto.nieuws.nl

Tag Links: Audi R8, RS8

Some of you who follow the development of the automotive industry through foreign sites may remember a photo of an Audi R8 burned to the ground on the Nurburgring sometime earlier this year.

Now, Quattro GmbH director Wener Frowein reveals what happened in an interview with Dutch news site Nieuws.nl:

The burned Audi R8 was a prototype of the Audi RS8, the high performance version of the Audi R8 - not like the car isn’t already a scorcher to begin with. In the engine bay was a 580 PS twin-turbocharged V10 from the Audi RS6. Because of the mid-engine layout, the monster twin-blown V10 had cooling problems - this resulted in a total of 3 prototypes sharing the same fiery fate.



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Burned Audi R8 was a prototype of the Audi RS8

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EL34

That's some good news.

PS, I'm buying the RS8 when it comes out ;)

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Posted on 11/27/2007 11:27:39 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

1uberaudi

At least the RS8 has these problems in development and not after production and delivery to customer, i.e. V12 Twin Turbo Mercedes-Benz engine.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 11:59:32 AM | | Votes: -1   

Ventura

Weren't you buying the Jaguar XF some posts ago?

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Posted on 11/27/2007 12:49:22 PM | | Votes: 4   

S4cabriofoxone

No, he's buying the BMW X6 and Ferrari F430 Scuderia, and maybe even a new Mercedes C-Class or two.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 5:08:04 PM | | Votes: 1   

investor27

Can't read the article. It is written in a different language.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 11:57:39 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Bmw8ter

Rough Translation from an online translator:

Audi tested in the spring in cooperation with Quattro GmbH a ten cylinder version of the R8 that goes as a RS8 through the life. During the proof rides on the Nürburgring, of that went a prototype in the fire. In the Swedish press lays Quattro-manager Werner Frowein out about which.,. "We were testing with the biturbo V10 from the Audi RS6. Through problems with the koeling of the turbo’s its during that sessions three prototypes burned down. We got it not for each other because the motor in the middle lies." That 580 pk strong V10 passes by thus at the nose of the RS8. "Now be we busy with a ten cylinder with something more than 500 pk." Further tells Frowein that the RS-models of Audi what previously in the model cycle appeared. Now the supersnelle versions come fit sit as a correct in the middle or the end of its existence. That is not done sail to take the S-models too much wind from the, but by that strategy thus parting is taken. For the TT also a fast version is prepared. That the fight must enter into with among many the BMW Z4 M compartment. "We are busy with a five cylinder of 2,3-liter and 310 pk." Until ends we make shortly knowledge with the RS4. Opposite Quattro GmbH let us yet just in tension. Over the new supersedan, that will fish in the pond of the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and the BMW M3 do two stories the round: by the first he becomes foresee of a dikke V8 only there its also speculations over a biturbo V6. Frowein holds its lips on each other. Shortly we know more.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 12:17:14 PM | | Votes: 1   

Yonder7

Mercedes V12 twin turbo...jaja...you are wrong it was the samll BMW 335i twin turbo...>;-)

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Posted on 11/27/2007 12:57:22 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Yonder7

IE overheating problems.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 1:00:11 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

ThierryHenry14

They ought to find better ways to cool the engine, ie, cooling ducts on roof and sides.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 5:30:41 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

investor27

Thanks for the translation. I do remember seeing that picture appearing during the same week as the spied prototype V10 was spotted, but who knows. I could just happened upon them at the same time then.

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Posted on 11/27/2007 6:05:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

MunichRob

I thought we weren't calling the RS8?

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Posted on 11/28/2007 1:09:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

S4cabriofoxone

We're not. Nobody is actually sure.

But I'm still sticking with the simple "R8 V10."

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Posted on 11/28/2007 8:05:07 PM | | Votes: 1   

M35MT

009 was so amused when the IS-F's brakes caught fire, wonder what he thinks about the R8 burning to the ground?

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Posted on 11/28/2007 10:53:43 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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