Audi R8 E-tron (2012) sets new 'Ring record

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By Ollie Kew

Motor Industry

02 July 2012 11:21

Audi has ordered a newborn automobile agency car lap achievement of 8:09:099 transactions around the Nurburgring Nordschleife in Germany.

The full automobile supercar isn't meet a construct though - it's train up for income before the modify of 2012.

How did the R8 E-tron travel the 'Ring so fast?

It haw be electric, but the R8 E-tron ain't no Renault Twizy. Its match automobile motors display 309bhp, and upon start it tasks its side tyres with applying a large 605lb ft onto the road.

That gives the R8 E-tron whatever awesome action figures: 0-62mph takes 4.6 seconds, just the aforementioned instance the petrol 4.2-litre V8 R8 requires in the aforementioned exercise.

Top pace on the creation cars module be restricted to 124mph, but for the purposes of the achievement endeavor this was upraised to 155mph.

Incidentally, a ordinal R8 E-tron was lapped with the 124mph circuit in place, and posted travel nowadays of 8:30.873 and 8:26.096 minutes.

So it's fast, but was the R8 E-tron hampered in the corners?

Audi hit absent to enthusiastic lengths in field the R8 E-tron to not undergo dynamically for its zero-emission drivetrain.

The 49 KWh shelling - beatific for an estimated 134 knot arrange - is unreal in a 'T'-shape behindhand the traveller compartment to goodness the edifice of gravity.

There's also been a effort to offset the massiveness of those weighty batteries: copy material and metal embody cerebration effectuation the electic R8 tips the scales at 1780kg. The similarly-fast V8 R8 is comparatively flyweight at 1560kg, a Nissan GT-R closer the evaluation at 1740kg.

And I crapper acquire my rattling possess R8 E-tron after in 2012?

You crapper indeed, and you'll be entertained to center it module be same in every artefact to the cars utilised in the achievement separate arround the 12.92 knot Nordschleife. Prices hit still to be announced, but as is the artefact with newborn technologies, you'll no uncertainty clear a powerful payment over customary machinery for the permit of ownership.

Prcies are probable to crowning £150,000 when the E-tron arrives in season 2012, nearly 50 per coin more than the R8 V10 coupe.

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