Possibly mated to an electric motor, Audi's five-cylinder turbo engine could end up in the R8 - in place of a V8 modelThere will be no V8 version of the new Audi R8. What there will be - according to the Ingolstadt rumour mill - is a cheaper five-cylinder turbocharged model, powered by a highly re-engineered version of the Audi RS3’s five cylinder turbo.
This may or may not get some additional boosting from a hybrid system in the fullness of time, although there will be a fully electric production version of the new R8, too, called the e-Tron.
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