Audi R8 V10 Confirmed

And here is the video.
You can definitely hear the V10!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=32821878

Why are you playin' with matches again? :-(

Awesome. Diesel is the future!

I'm pretty sure the V10 is a FSI Gasoline direct injection high revving unit. Not to be confused with the V12 TDI turbodiesel unit in the R8 V12 TDI concept car.

520hp V10 FSI, no diesel here :)

Excellent. Goodbye Aston Martin and Porsche.

Good bye,Audi (that what Lf-A will say to Audi V8,>>>V10 will see)

I'm pretty sure the LF-A will price itself out of the market but be outperformed by the R8 V10 and its competition.

Besides making it faster, more fun, more exotic, better to live with and less expensive?

Hm.

I got my first real good look at an R8 on the road a couple weeks ago. It is worth noting that there is almost always an Aston V8 Vantage in my neighborhood because the owner of a hair salon has one. The day I saw the R8, I was also getting a haircut, and parked in front was the V8 Vantage coupe. It didn't look half as good. Sorry. I love Astons too but the R8 puts, at the very least, the V8 V to shame.

If not the DB9. It's faster than that, too... and you'd be surprised at how beautiful it really is.

Once again, have you seen it? I don't think so.

Well, like I said, I saw both in the same day. While the Vantage has a beautiful shape, it was simply unexciting to look at after the R8. It looked bland. I wouldn't be able to justify buying it.

watch out, the new kids on the block... amazing... this is my new favorite (semi-reasonably priced) supercar... cant wait to see the performance figures... ill take one in white on carbon fiber please

I like that VW has so many brands to spread its powertrain options. Great V6s, V8s, V10s, V12s that come in petrol and diesel guises.

You'd think GM would have this type of engine diversity amoung its many brands too...with a couple of V10 & V12 engine variations sitting around for Cadillac and an exclusive (ultra-low volume) luxury brand (ie. Cunningham).

People talk about the 'misses' that VW has had with the Passat W8 & Phaeton, but VW holds some of the most interesting brands to date.

Just when I thought the R8 couldn't get any better... fierce!!!

I live in a ghetto *ss appartments and my stripper neighbor's friend parked his R8 next to my beat up 88 civic. Up close, this car looks amazing.

Why can't Audi build a car that actually performs that cost $45k or less? TT not included.

It seems like with Audi you have to spend serious coin to get any performance

lex you are correct. the problem with audi is that the company as a whole thinks their products cant be compared to. I went to them last week for an s5 they said you can order it and get it in 6 months if you want. I said can you drive it first they said no people know what they are getting. lol i said whats the lease they said you cant lease it. i said whats the price they said 59k loaded i said bmw 335xi 8k cheaper same performance whats wrong with this picture?

the audi is awsome. I know i may get deboosted for this one but i know some of you agree with me i am already tired of hearing about the lfa its been years either put it out or drop it. same with the camaro.

They should put this engine in the Audi A8L.

That would be a BWM killer fore sure.

they already do. it's called the S8.

markanthony,
Couldn't agree with you more! By the time that Lexus finally puts the LF-A into production, it won't be as exciting and will most likely be outperformed by whatever is the next best thing...

pushrod27 -they already do. it's called the S8.

Cool. Thanks. I will look at the Audi site. I guess I knew they had a W-10.

If they could build these at a US Plant, perhaps they might be more affordable.

this is great! a good addition to an amazing car