We have a new generation of Audi R8 with us. A new generation, at least for now, get animated or by a V10 or by an electric set under the label e-tron. A new Audi R8 more angular shapes, with a living area that boasts the latest innovation of the firm from Ingolstadt, Audi R8 in which I will come back to deepen with the excuse to meet their production process , as assembled, where each of the units of this super German.
The chassis of the new Audi R8 has 40% more torsional rigidity.
The Audi R8 is manufactured by quattro GmbH , and subsidiary property firm that forms the Audi R8 at the premises of Audi Böllinger Höfe in Heilbronn, Germany. The work, almost artisanal, is Llava out in facilities that occupy 23 hectares, with one dedicated to the production of 30,000 square meters.
The installation of this new generation of the Audi R8 remains in the hands of 492 employees in an almost artisanal process that begins with molded aluminum frame, welded manually, intervening only robots in the process cold junction where the CFRP joins the aluminum. The CFRP , that plastic material reinforced with carbon fiber, extending the B-pillars, the center tunnel, the rear wall together giving life to an aluminum chassis that is in this generation 40% firmer . If you have checked this aluminum chassis only weigh 32 kg.
A series of self-propelled cars that move R8 that is taking shape by an assembly of 15 seats arranged in U-shaped mounting cycles 40 minutes. The engine, gearbox, linings, wiring … add here the primeval chassis, such as the brakes are added, ducts refrigeranción …
Details, watermarks and final quality control before it is divided into 6 cycles. Sadik Morina is test pilot test it in charge of a process of about an hour that takes you to roll on the test track mark by roads and highways and checking that everything runs smoothly and that adjustments are appropriate.
On the new Audi R8:
The Audi R8 uses the familiar propeller V10 of 5.2 liters, a mechanism that also uses the Lamborghini Hurricane.
Leaving aside the electric version, the Audi R8 e-tron that you know all the details in the article “Audi R8 e-tron 2015: 462 horsepower electric supercar,” we find an Audi R8, He moved by the impeller V10 5.2-liter, atmospheric, comes in two power levels, with 540 horses and 610 horses respectively counting in both cases with all-wheel drive and automatic transmission.
The starting price for the first, for the version of 540 horses, is 191 870 euros while for the second, for the Plus, is 214 870 euros .
You can learn more about the Audi R8 in the article “Audi R8 2015 : comes the new beast of Ingolstadt”
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