As an Audi brand of housekeeping supercars, the R8 has always had many fans, the most famous of which is "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr.
At the beginning of the filming of "Iron Man 1", the director believed that the temperament of the Audi R8 was very in line with Iron Man, especially the sense of future technology expressed by the R8 and the personalization different from other top supercars, making the Audi R8 become the exclusive car of Iron Man, and also became his own car in real life.
However, as emission requirements become more stringent, the R8 equipped with a large displacement engine will face the end, last week has been exposed by the media, recently, Audi officially confirmed that the V10 R8 will be the last model of the series, is expected to be discontinued in 2023.
As for who the successor of the R8 is, it is not clear for the time being, there are sources that it will be an electric car, but there are also sources that it will be a plug-in hybrid version.
However, Sebastian Grims, head of Audi RS, said in an interview a few days ago: "Audi RS is following Audi's all-electric strategy, which is also the plan of S and RS models. If we're going to build a new type of supercar, it's going to be electric, and it's going to follow our strategy and vision towards an all-electric future. ”
From this paragraph to analyze, the future successor of the R8 will most likely become a pure electric model, which is also in line with Audi's current plans and layouts in electrification.
At present, Audi has a number of electric sports cars such as RS e-tron GT, even if they no longer use the name of R8, then there will be more amazing products to debut.
Audi RS e-tron GT