Audi is bidding adieu to the R8 with a GT RWD restricted to 333 coupes. If that particular version is not wild sufficient, ABT Sportsline has developed a very bonkers model of the supercar. Meet the XGT, basically a race automotive for the highway because it takes the form of a street-legal R8 GT2. It successfully extends the life cycle of the naturally aspirated machine since Audi is supplying 99 rolling chassis to the German firm.
Very similar to the R8 GT RWD we talked about, the ABT XGT additionally routes the V10’s energy solely to the rear wheels. It packs a higher punch because the 5.2 FSI engine has been dialed to 630 hp whereas Audi’s swan tune for its flagship sports activities automotive has “solely” 612 hp. Deleting Quattro and making beneficiant use of carbon fiber has stored the load all the way down to a remarkably low 3,086 kilos (1,400 kilograms). Relying on the angle of the rear wing, high pace is 193 mph (310 km/h).
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ABT explains it wanted two years to develop the XGT after ready for months to have the mission authorised by the higher-ups. As many as 40 folks needed to individually inexperienced gentle the wild R8. We’re being advised it isn’t a supercar modified to appear like a race automotive, however an precise race automotive with a license plate. It “differs solely marginally from the Audi R8 LMS GT2” and every car can be distinctive by permitting house owners to totally customise it.
You possibly can inform it is the true deal by taking a look contained in the stripped-out cabin the place there is a full roll cage and the identical steering wheel discovered within the precise GT2 race automotive. As a result of the intent was to make it a road-legal automotive, ABT added central locking, a rearview digicam, and a handbrake, together with putting in a daily digital instrument cluster. For a similar cause, there are actually controls for the air-con, flip indicators, and electrically adjustable mirrors within the modified management panel.
As well as, tweaks to the thermal administration, software program, braking, and fueling system had been made however with out straying away from the GT2 machine. After all, there’s additionally a unique exhaust system, one which meets the mandatory emissions laws to be highway worthy. Further modifications had been made to adjust to noise ranges.
ABT is providing the XGT in 4 commonplace colours however you possibly can ask them to color the automotive in a unique hue. The hardcore R8 rides on 19-inch entrance and 20-inch rear solid wheels with Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tires and is fitted with an 83-liter (21.9-gallon) gas tank.
Value? €598,000, or about $652,000 at present change charges.
ABT is greater than only a tuner with a gentle spot for Audis because the firm has raced in additional than 300 races in DTM since 2000. It has received dozens of races and has over 250 podium finishes. In 2024, ABT will workforce up with Audi and Purple Bull to area a pair of R8 LMS GT3 evo II race automobiles in DTM
