2011 Audi R8 GT3 LMS Legal Racing Cars On Street

 2011 Audi R8 GT3 LMS 

 2011 Audi R8 GT3 LMS  

 

 2011 Audi R8 GT3 LMS 

 2011 Audi R8 GT3 LMS

Rumors accept been circulating that Audi may activate bearing a road-going adaptation of its rear-wheel-drive supercar the GT3-spec R8 LMS racer. Production models has not yet been blooming lit by Audi's college ups. However, Audi's arch structural architect has accepted that a rear-wheel-drive R8 ancestor has been built.

Our take? Until the LMS R8 is put into production, consumers absent one will accept to achieve for an R8 featuring the company's signature Quattro all-wheel-drive system. Currently amount is about $406,000.

Want a rear-wheel-drive Audi R8, agnate to the GT3-spec LMS chase car currently congenital by Audi Sport? You may be in luck. The automaker is investigating alms a artery acknowledged adaptation of the production-based racer.

Armin Kappler, Audi's arch structural engineer, accepted to Autocar that a rear-wheel-drive R8 ancestor has been built. Although the activity has yet to accept a blooming ablaze from high management, Kappler says Ferdinand Piech, CEO of the absolute Volkswagen Group, brand the car. Coming from the man who helped spearhead the development of the alarming Porsche 917, that endorsement acceptable carries some weight.

Still, in adjustment to in fact cycle such a car assimilate the assembly line, Audi will accept to body a applicable business case for the car. If anything, abacus a rear-wheel-drive adaptation would be constant with Audi's rollout of R8 variants (after the V-8's barrage in 2006, the V-10 car debuted in 2010, and the Spyder will access in 2011), and would advice added the car's lifespan until a next-generation archetypal can be engineered.

Until a accede is given, the alone way anyone can buy an R8 after the company's signature quattro all-wheel-drive arrangement is to bounce for the race-spec LMS. You'll accept to bead almost $406,000, and delay until 2011 to accept one - the 2010 assembly run is absolutely awash out.