Audi's 2017 R20 Supercar Plans Revealed

Bugatti has the Veyron. Bentley recently unveiled the Continental GT3. Lamborghini is laying the finishing touches on the Aventador Superveloce. Porsche will soon release the 918 Spyder. And what does Audi have? It was supposed to have the R8 e-tron, but that car is either half-dead or barely alive, depending on your source. An ailing halo car is not what the new R&D chief Wolfgang Dürheimer expected when he recently moved over from Bentley. Instead, the ex-BMW and Porsche top manager is pushing for a new, even more ambitious sports car project known as R20.

While the chairman of the board Rupert Stadler has not yet abandoned the zero-emissions R8 e-tron, Wolfgang Dürheimer seems to favor a street-legal LeMans racer as the most suitable means to burnish the marque’s reputation. At a glance, this approach may appear overly ambitious, but then the gestation of such a car is not rocket science. What helps is that all current LeMans contenders are in essence two-seaters with the passenger seat removed, so the packaging is already there. Although one could easily fuse the hardcore engineering concept with a relatively conventional supercar body style, Audi’s high-performance squad decided to model the road car after the racecar.



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Steve - 12/20/2012 1:09:12 PM

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I don't feel Audi's styling translates well in this front end, and stacked headlights (AKA "illuminated fenders") have always left me cold. That's just *my* view. I'm sure it'll make others salivate.

AlleVier - 12/20/2012 1:34:08 PM

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I agree in terms of the grille, but this is one of those quicky Photoshop renderings that starts as another car (Koenigsegg CCX) has design elements from current models (the stacked headlights from the R18 and the corporate grille) tacked on. In other words, not to be taken too seriously. I don't mind the R18 lights, though.

Yonder7 - 12/20/2012 5:17:31 PM

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it looks like a bastard of the R8 and the Nissan GTR...

scenicbyway12 - 12/20/2012 9:33:17 PM

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Generic supercar look.

Lexus - 12/21/2012 12:59:03 AM

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Hey autospies,

you forgot to make a post for this ; )

http://www.insideline.com/hyundai/veloster/2012/2012-hyundai-veloster-recalled-for-parking-brake-problem.html

Oh..., And happy holiday!! ; )

skytop - 12/21/2012 11:29:24 AM

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But check out that revolutionary windshield wiper! Worth the $200K they will probably price this unuseable car at.
Looks like the still born Jag max car with the usual Audi wierdo, 'look at me, I'm different' headlights.