Audi's Italdesign Readies Initial Supercar Run With First Copies Priced At $1.6 Million Each

Italdesign, Audi's design and engineering subsidiary, has formed a business division to build limited-edition supercars.

The new unit will unveil its first car, a coupe priced at 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) plus taxes, at the upcoming Geneva auto show.

The division, which is called Italdesign Automobili Speciali (Italian for special automobiles), intends to build five examples of the two-seat carbon-fiber car. It has a 5.2-liter V-10 engine also used top-end versions of the Audi R8 and can accelerate from 0 to 100 kph (0 to 62 mph) in 3.2 seconds.

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TheSteve - 2/22/2017 2:03:34 PM

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I find myself wishing Audi would create beautiful, inspiring, and reasonably affordable cars for us mere mortals.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 2/22/2017 2:27:39 PM

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Looks like a Lambo and a Koenigsegg had a baby. Next....

Holydude - 2/22/2017 4:16:14 PM

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Wow, nice! But 3.2s is a little weak in that segment, it needs to be under 3.0 secs to be competitive.

qwertyfla - 2/22/2017 6:32:52 PM

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Hideous

MDarringer - 2/22/2017 8:28:12 PM

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Mongrel

rumnyc - 2/23/2017 2:34:34 AM

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looks like a riced out countach update with gallardo bits