Audi Hints That Lightweight TT Sport And R8 Sport Are On The Way

In a roundtable chat with journalists, Audi's Quattro GmbH development chief Stefan Reil dropped a hint that intensified, lightweight versions of the R8 supercar and TT sports car are under serious consideration.

From a small boardroom just yards from his office at Audi's massive production facility at Neckarsulm, Germany, the head of Audi's Quattro GmbH (Audi's in-house tuning/customization outfit and builder of the scrumptious R8 supercar) hinted to a small group of journalists that Audi might be far from done exploring new ways to have fun with its attention-getting midengine R8 — even beyond the much ballyhooed V12 diesel-powered R8 TDI Le Mans that Audi displayed at the Detroit and Geneva auto shows.

With the R8 Sport, Audi will probably take a similar approach to performance as it did with the 2005 TT Quattro Sport, built in limited numbers during the last several months of the previous generation's production run, although it never made it Stateside. That car featured a slight increase in horsepower for its turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a tauter suspension calibration, Recaro seats and a slight reduction in weight, primarily due to the removal of the rear seats/parcel shelf and the spare tire.



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S4cabriofoxone - 4/9/2008 9:27:18 AM

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Nice.

Agent63 - 4/9/2008 10:02:19 PM

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S4: =( i'm so envious of all the models that came out after I got mine.

S4cabriofoxone - 4/10/2008 8:20:07 PM

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Ha--try being me. I would so rather have an RS4 Cabriolet right now. I wouldn't be complaining if I were you, LMAO.

njshift - 4/9/2008 9:49:52 AM

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Any weight reduction is a great idea.

lexusrox123 - 4/9/2008 1:41:47 PM

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what are you talking about???? its awesome!

ThierryHenry14 - 4/9/2008 7:34:30 PM

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kraut god - you are so big of a fan boy that I bet the LF-A/GT-R/IS-F/any other Japanese car would all of a sudden be ugly if it were badged as a BMW/Merc/Audi/Porsche...

EvoAudi - 4/9/2008 10:22:39 PM

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this is good and bad. It is good that audi is building more performance cars through lighter weight vs more power.

It is bad because if audi makes a 911 model family per model I.e a TT, TTS, TTGT3(lightweight, midpower), TTGT2(lightweight, big power)TT Turbo(heavy, big power). Then for the R8 and A/S/RS4. People will get confused on what car they would want.

If they keep the model lineup simple then they will sell more.