Built as the fastest and the most powerful Audi ever, the all-new generation of the R8 has landed in the USA priced as much as a house. The price of entry for an R8 is now $164,150, for the base V10 coupe. That’s a pretty big jump compared to the outgoing, 2015 model, which started at $117,150 for the V8 model. It's the same price as the 2015 model while adding 15 more horsepower, seven more pound-feet of torque, and a tenth of a second to the 0-60 time, which is now estimated at 3.5 seconds. The 2017 R8 adds four miles an hour to its predecessor's 195-mph top speed.
Audi might point out that the new car’s naturally aspirated, 5.2-liter V-10 now churns out 540 horsepower and 398 lb-ft of torque. New standard features include Audi’s 12.3-inch diagonal “Virtual Cockpit” configurable display screen in place of traditional gauges, and other new tech offerings include 4G LTE connectivity, Wi-Fi hot-spot capability, Google Earth imagery for the navigation system, and Audi Connect apps.
See the video released by Audi below.
