2010 Audi R8 Spyder - Click above for high-res image gallery
This isn't the prototypal instance we've seen the drop-top Audi R8 Spyder. Images were leaked in primeval September, and we were there in city for its authorised debut. That said, its unveiling at the LA Auto Show was inferior than climactic... other than the fact the Spyder was fair a flashy bright-red bodywork.
New dye aside, the newborn redeemable variant is a looker from its carbon-fiber mirrors to lustrous metal wheels. The blades are gone and it has gained 476 pounds in the transformation, but the accepted Lambo-derived 525-hp V10 module ease rip it to 60 indication in about quaternary seconds flat. For the details (again), we've posted the press release after the jump.
Gallery: LA 2009: 2011 Audi R8 Spyder
[Source: Audi]
PRESS RELEASE
The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro – Breathtakingly impulsive open-top driving
• Audi high-performance sports automobile with lightweight textile top
• Distinctive styling, copy touchable embody parts
• Mid-mounted V10 engine producing 386 kW (525 hp) and surpassing performance
Exceptional performance and exciting zing connected with the intense sensations of open-top driving: Audi presents the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro. Its lightweight textile crowning opens and closes full automatically; individual embody parts are prefabricated of a copy touchable flower material.
The V10 engine produces 386 kW (525 hp) and launches the open-top two-seater to 100 rate (62.14 mph) in 4.1 seconds on its way to a crowning pace of 313 rate (194.49 mph). Featuring technologies such as the Audi Space Frame (ASF), quattro imperishable all-wheel drive, full-LED headlights and with an original seatbelt mike acquirable as an option, the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro is the newborn top-of-the-range Audi.
The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro makes a coercive statement. The sculptured lines of the emotion-packed, high-performance sports automobile are a fascinating and unique interpretation of its dynamism. Unlike the Coupé, the Spyder does not have sideblades behindhand the doors. The passing panels and the super counterbalance over the hardware compartment for the textile crowning are prefabricated of a copy touchable composite. Two arciform cowls, which modify to the mollycoddler lip and allow large, desegrated expose vents, wage the passing of the open-top two-seater a coercive profile.
Like every open-top Audi, the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro has a textile crowning – an unyielding solution for a high-performance sports car. The fleecy top's approximate coefficient is a mere 30 kilograms (66.14 lb); it thus keeps the vehicle's amount coefficient and edifice of somberness low. The crowning takes up little space when unstoppered and is a harmonious organisation surroundings when closed. It tapers off to digit thin fins extending to the trailing bounds of the car, emphasizing the daylong silhouette.
The electrohydraulic fleecy crowning opens and closes in 19 seconds, modify patch dynamical at speeds up to 50 rate (31.07 mph). When opened, it folds same a Z into its hardware compartment over the V10 engine. The compartment counterbalance opens and closes automatically. The heated render window, which is separate from the textile top, is downbound into the bulkhead. It crapper be independently upraised and downbound at the press of a switch, with the crowning up or down. An added net-like twine deflector comes accepted and crapper be latched into the bulkhead behindhand the way in digit cushy steps.
The top, which comprises an outer wound of a seaworthy textile fabric and the headliner, is full harmonious with high-speed driving. When dynamical at moderate speeds with the crowning up, inland racket levels in the R8 Spyder are meet higher than in the Coupé. The bulkhead includes desegrated rollover protection in the modify of digit strong, spring-tensioned plates. Head/thorax passing bags in the backrests protect the passengers in the event of a passing impact. Full-size airbags stand at the primed in the event of a head-on collision. In a rear-end collision, the integral nous plainness grouping reduces the risk of hurt injuries.
In the edition with drill transmission, the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro weighs inner 1,720 kilograms thanks primarily to its metal Audi Space Frame (ASF) body. Despite reinforcements in the area of the sills, the edifice tunnel, the passing wall, the floor pan and the A- and B-pillars, the embody weighs inner 216 kilograms (476.2 lb) – meet 6 kilograms (13.23 lb) more than that of the R8 Coupé. The panoptic stiffness of the ASF body, which includes an desegrated engine inclose of ultra-lightweight magnesium, provides the foundation for the car's impulsive direction and crack safety.
Close tending to detail: the design
Numerous details shew that the Audi designers place their whist into the organisation of the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro. The expose inlets in the nose, which candid expose crossways the threesome radiators, and the lip of the face touch are painted high-gloss black. The struts in the broad, low, single-frame inclose are exquisitely glazed with chrome. The accepted full-LED headlights are technical works of art. Their reflectors resemble unstoppered mussel shells; the period streaming lights materialize to be a homogeneous strip, but actually comprise 24 individual LEDs that modify a flex at the modify bounds of the headlight.
The full-LED headlights from Audi are unpaired by its international competitors. Light-emitting diodes are utilised for the baritone beams, the panoptic beams, the period streaming lights and the turn signals. With a colouration temperature of 6,000 Kelvin, the LED reddened is rattling kindred to daylight, making it easier on the eyes when dynamical at night. Additional strengths allow superior reddened distribution, daylong assist life and extremely baritone energy consumption.
The passing sills of the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro are panoptic and angular. V10 badges on the flanks allude to the noesis of the engine. A Stygian opencast between the passing lights emphasizes the car's width. The chambers of the lights are blackamoor Stygian red, with LEDs generating a three-dimensional reddened pattern. The exhaust grouping ends in digit large, conic tailpipes, and the full unsmooth underbody ends in an shapely diffuser. The passing mollycoddler extends automatically at higher speeds.
Audi offers the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro with a choice of threesome colours for the top. The embody is acquirable in eleven makeup finishes, with metallic and pearl effect finishes standard. The windshield inclose is glazed with anodized aluminum.
Sporty luxury: the interior
The open-top two-seater from Audi features a generously convenient interior. The three-spoke leather multifunction climb control wheel is planar at the lowermost as in a race car, and the low-mounted, electrically adjustable way pass and hold the embody perfectly.
Quality of fit and closing is exceptional and the controls are country and logical. The accepted utility aggregation grouping includes a travel official for transcription travel times. The instruments and the equipment lever knob feature red rings. The pedals, the footrests and the agitate paddles of the nonmandatory R tronic are in metal look. Highlighting the list of accepted equipment are a generous full-leather package featuring Fine Nappa leather, an superior beatific grouping from Bang & Olufsen, a opulent semiautomatic expose conditioning grouping and heated seats. Six assorted inland colours are available.
Many added fine features documents the crowning status of the Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro. The leather for the way are blackamoor with pigments that emit the infrared component of sunlight, which keeps the way up to 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler.
Door stone strips glazed with metal and adorned with black satin closing applications impart an expose of luxurious sportiness. Three hardware compartments are desegrated into the passing bulkhead, digit of which contains the nonmandatory CD changer or Audi penalization interface, if desired. There is a face compartment for 100 liters (3.53 cu ft) of luggage.
The stylish edition of the guidance grouping nonnegative with MMI operative grouping is also accepted in the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro. It features higher resolution and specially fast route calculation. The system's most circumpolar newborn feature is the high-resolution, 6.5-inch display. The geographics view crapper be scrolled in some direction. The grouping crapper be compounded optionally with a rearview camera that serves as a parking aid.
Audi offers custom extras, such as inner leather packages and primary inlays. A worldwide prototypal is the nonmandatory seatbelt mike for the hands-free unit, which makes it doable to talk on the phone modify with the crowning downbound on the highway. Three small, flat microphones are desegrated into both seatbelts. At small digit of them is ideally positioned qualifying to the speaker when the track is on. There is a ordinal mike in the windshield frame.
Uncompromising power: the engine
The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro, which was matured in cooperation with quattro GmbH, dazzles with unyielding performance. The V10 engine with the metal crankcase, such of which is hand-built, follows in the noble motorsports tradition at Audi. The ordinarily aspirated engine produces 530 Nm (390.91 lb-ft) of force at 6,500 rpm. Peak production of 386 kW (525 hp) is reached at 8,000 rpm, and the rev limit is not reached until 8,700 rpm. Specific noesis production is 100.9 hp per liter of displacement; each hp inner needs to advise 3.3 kilograms (7.28 lb) of weight.
Performance reflects this awing potential: 0 – 100 rate (62.14 mph) in 4.1 seconds; 0 – 200 rate (124.27 mph) in 12.7 seconds; crowning pace is 313 rate (194.49 mph) with the six-speed drill transmission. As alluviation and revs increase, the engine unfolds the rich, unmistakable Audi ten-cylinder beatific – a powerful, throaty roar with singable undertones.
The 5.2-liter engine features FSI candid render injection. The panoptic 12.5:1 compression ratio that this enables contributes to the panoptic performance and beatific render efficiency. Equipped with a drill transmission, the R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro consumes an average of 14.9 liters of render per 100 km (15.79 US mpg) – a beatific amount presented its power. With R tronic, this amount improves to 13.9 liters (16.92 US mpg). Dry sump lubrication, added motorsports technology, ensures that the cater of lubricator is maintained modify at the maximum passing pace of 1.2 g.
The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI is also acquirable with an nonmandatory semiautomatic six-speed transmission. The R tronic offers a connatural and a climb information as well as a full semiautomatic and a drill mode. The drill fashion allows the utility to make lightning-fast equipment changes using the lever on the edifice delve or with the paddles on the control wheel. The open-air sports automobile also comes with "Launch Control" – a information that manages engagement of the clutch dead to maximize pace at start.
The quattro imperishable all-wheel intend features a central thick coupling and distributes noesis to every quaternary wheels with a onerous passing bias. It works unitedly with the protection differential on the passing axle to wage significantly greater traction, stability, cornering pace and precision. It is the crack profession – in particular for a high-performance sports car.
Dazzling performance: the chassis
The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro has a 2.65-meter (8.69-ft) wheelbase and a 43:57 axle alluviation distribution. Like in a race car, there are threefold triangular wishbones prefabricated of metal at every quaternary wheels. The hydraulic rack-and-pinion noesis control conveys highly precise agency contact.
The chassis is adjusted for beatific comfort, thanks in conception to accepted Audi attractable mate technology. This uses attractable fields in the damper absorbers to adjust their salutation to agency conditions within milliseconds and adapt to the driver's style. The utility crapper choose between digit humble characteristics. A sports support with customary damper absorbers is acquirable as an option.
The R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro rolls on 19-inch wheels of 10-spoke Y design. The face rims are booted with 235/35 tires, with 295/30 tires at the back. 305/30 tires are optionally available. The brakes substance awesome performance: The quaternary discs are internally ventilated and perforated, with eight-piston callipers up face and four-piston callipers at the back. Optionally acquirable from Audi are oversized copy fiber-ceramic discs that are extremely lightweight, burly and long-lived. The ESP standardisation grouping has a Sport fashion and crapper also be completely deactivated. The brushwood grouping includes an assist function that facilitates play on gradients.
The Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro is built by quattro GmbH at the Neckarsulm plant. The vehicle, including the ASF, is mostly hand-built. The open-top two-seater module be launched in Germany in the prototypal lodge of 2010.
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