The rear-wheel-drive Audi R8 has been resurrected as a regular-production mannequin for the 2021 mannequin 12 months and to have a good time the mannequin’s arrival, Audi is producing a limited-edition variant known as Panther developed completely for the USA.
Named after the animal, not after Ford’s long-lived body-on-frame structure, the Panther is obtainable solely as a coupe. It wears Panther Black paint (it has a crystal impact that resembles a starlit sky), carbon fiber mirror caps, black emblems throughout, and black 20-inch wheels with pink accents. Summer time efficiency tires come customary. If this specification sounds acquainted, it is most likely as a result of the RS 5 wore it first — and it regarded nice doing it.
Stepping contained in the Panther reveals black leather-based upholstery with pink distinction stitching on the dashboard and on the door panels, a pair of sport seats wrapped in pink leather-based, and Alcantara on the headliner. Navigation and a Bang & Olufsen sound system with 13 audio system are among the many highlights from the usual tools record.
Audi made no mechanical modifications to the Panther, so energy comes from a naturally-aspirated, 5.2-liter V10 which produces 532 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque. Mounted behind the passenger compartment, it exhales by means of a sport exhaust, and it sends its energy to the rear wheels solely by way of a seven-speed automated transmission. Flooring it, and you may see 60 mph seem on the digital instrument cluster in 3.6 seconds.
Solely 30 models of the R8 RWD Panther are coming our means, and so they’ll be offered by means of choose sellers beginning in December 2020. Pricing begins at $186,495 together with a $1,495 vacation spot cost and a $1,700 fuel guzzler tax.
