Audi R8

“The new Audi R8 has very big shoes to fill, but does so admirably.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 is a true supercar that’s devastatingly fast, yet it’s as easy to drive as a TT.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder range
Score: 10 / 10
“The Audi A8 Spyder is pure theatre, with a trick folding roof and a screaming V10 soundtrack.”
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Model reviewed: (2023)
Score: 9 / 10
“Audi’s thunderous mid-engined supercar may be on borrowed time but remains a credible – and soulful – Porsche 911 rival.” (Dan Trent)
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Model reviewed: Coupé range
Score: 9 / 10
“This updated version of the Audi R8 merely tweaks the features and engineering that made it so special when it was first launched in 2015. It’s a proper supercar in a smart suit, capable of mind-bending performance while also being perfectly functional as an everyday cruiser.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder range
Score: 8.2 / 10
“The very nature of a convertible means the Audi R8 Spyder isn’t quite as dynamically capable as the coupe version, but it’s still a potent weapon when it wants to be.”
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Model reviewed: 5.2-litre petrol automatic Performance RWD
Score: 8 / 10
“The second-generation Audi R8 has always been an outlier, a self-defined sports car that sits on what are very obviously supercar underpinnings and with a chassis that often seems much more sensible than the gloriously unlikely engine that powers it. Despite the reduction in driven wheels, the Performance RWD is still big on left-brain logic. It would be a very easy car to live with day-to-day.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 8 / 10
“Audi sends its mid-engined flagship in search of supercar scalps, and largely succeeds – even if rivals like the Porsche 911 Turbo S provide greater driving thrills.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder V10 Performance
Score: 8 / 10
“You could happily trundle around town in the R8 all day: the seven-speed dual-clutch ’box is impressively smooth when pulling away from a standstill given how quickly it’ll swap cogs out when you’re on maximum attack; visibility out of the cabin is good; and the control weights are light.”
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Model reviewed: R8 V10 coupé 5.2-litre petrol automatic
Score: 7 / 10
“Overhauled engine makes the greatest thing about the R8 even greater, even if the restrained looks and handling poise of the original are becoming an ever-more-distant memory.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 10 / 10
“The Audi R8 remains the ultimate daily supercar, one blessed with a unique mix of attributes too: a howling old-school V10, the security of all-wheel drive, a cabin that’s high on refinement and technology, and pricing that undercuts mid-engined rivals.”
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Model reviewed: RWS coupé
Score: 8 / 10
“Audi will build just 999 examples of the R8 Rear Wheel Series in total. It’s great value, and it has a unique appeal in the R8 range, which we think elevates the RWS well beyond its entry-level positioning to become the R8 to have right now. It’s a lovely thing.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder Plus
Score: 10 / 10
“The occasional shimmy from the scuttle aside, the Audi R8 V10 Plus Spyder is one of the few truly quick machines out there that seems to genuinely benefit from the removal of its roof. It just becomes a whole bathful of otters more engaging.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder
Score: 8 / 10
“The new Audi R8 Spyder is not without its foibles. It’s predictably less stiff than the Coupe; mount a kerb to provoke a little twist and you’ll hear myriad trims shudder and scuffle. Can you feel this in the corners? Fractionally, but you’ll be too busy revelling in the experience to care.”
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Model reviewed: Coupé range
Score: 8.4 / 10
“The popular Audi R8 offers a pure supercar experience with few of the usual drawbacks.” (Andy Goodwin)
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Model reviewed: Spyder range
Score: 7.8 / 10
“The Audi R8 Spyder has the performance to match its looks and is the pick of the R8 range.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder range
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 Spyder takes the already excellent R8 and gives you unbridled access to the sound of its superb V10 engine. Just don’t expect it to match alternatives’ exclusivity.”
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Model reviewed: Coupé range
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 V10 has stonking performance and a soundtrack straight from petrolhead heaven. It’s well built and easy to drive, but can’t match alternatives’ exclusivity.”
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Model reviewed: V10 Performance Carbon Black coupé
“The new Audi R8 is the German firm’s fastest and most powerful road-going car ever. It’s not a radical overhaul but a series of incremental improvements.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“Standard or Performance, coupe or Spyder – the Audi R8 is a quality, exciting and thoroughly involving supercar”
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Model reviewed: R8 coupé range
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 remains one of the most accomplished supercars on sale. Easy to use, comfortable and wonderfully refined, the R8 surpasses its rivals for everyday useability, while its vocal V10 and sophisticated four-wheel-drive system make it surprisingly easy to master.”
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Model reviewed: R8 Spyder range
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 Spyder convertible is extremely fast, extremely capable and, thanks to the folding fabric roof, it’s even easier to appreciate the glorious, howling, crackling V10 engine. In short, it’s sublime.”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 is a fabulous thing, with a beautifully finished (if slightly sombre) cabin and a strong image. It’s not cheap, though…”
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Model reviewed: Range overview
Score: 9 / 10
“The second-generation Audi R8 is a sharper and more angular vehicle than the first but, like its predecessor, will often be mistaken for the smaller and cheaper Audi TT, at least until the characteristic side-blades – vertical pieces of contrasting bodywork behind the doors – come into view.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder range
Score: 9.2 / 10
“Convertible supercar that anyone can drive – and have serious fun in.”
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Model reviewed: Coupé range
Score: 9.6 / 10
“Supercar performance yet so simple to drive”
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Model reviewed: R8 V10 Performance
“If cars were judged on the engine alone, the new Audi R8 would be a contender for the best that money can buy.”
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Model reviewed: V10 Performance
“The Audi R8 is exactly what a supercar should be… and I still wouldn’t have one. The whole point of a supercar is that you don’t use it every day.” (Jeremy Clarkson)
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Model reviewed: Performance Coupé
Score: 9 / 10
“The Audi R8 has gone full circle. In a time when even Ferrari’s mid-engined supercar is turbocharged, the Audi represents a pocket of resistance for the naturally aspirated engine. The R8’s gone from the anodyne choice to one of the most satisfying experiences the supercar world has to offer.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder Plus
Score: 10 / 10
“The Audi R8 Spyder V10 Plus is tremendous. Except for one key detail that potentially spoils the entire show; if you’re tall, or something close to it, you will not fit in this car. I mean, you’ll be able to get in, but I swear you will never be comfortable.”
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Score: 10 / 10
“The Audi R8 has lost none of its user-friendliness with this facelift, but gained even more character and pace. At its heart sits one of the best engines on sale today, matched to a beautifully-judged chassis that’s at once accessible and exciting. If you can live with its thirst, it’s a deeply satisfying car to own and to drive.”
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Model reviewed: 7spd DSG AWD
Score: 8 / 10
“You can have a faster supercar than this, but you don’t need one.”
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Score: 9 / 10
“Its engine and huge breadth of ability make it feel increasingly special. A supercar that fully deserves its spot at the top table.”
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Model reviewed: Spyder range
Score: 8 / 10
“The Audi R8 Spyder is ferociously quick, and it has one of the best engines of any car on sale. However, if you’re looking for the ultimate driving experience its rivals from McLaren and Porsche are more involving.”
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Model reviewed: Coupé range
Score: 8 / 10
“The Audi R8 does everything a proper supercar should and then some. It’s rampantly quick in a straight line, especially the Performance model, and features one of the best engines of any supercar on sale.”
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