Audi R8 March was painful. However, the statements of the Volkswagen American CEO Group, which is still more painful, still ending with possible feedback.
If you are a fan of Audi’s products, the Audi R8 was one of the most damaged exits. One year has not passed since Ingolstadt stops production of central motor sports and the absence of the first day has been noticed. Now, Volkswagen CEO is throwing a jug and throwing cold water and A future R8 finishes a pllux with our hopes.
The Audi R8 released in 2007. At that time, it made it with a 4.2 -liter atmospheric engine connected to a manual or automatic change and a four -wheel drive system. Quickly, the R8 was the emblem of the Audi models range, and when the brand V8 replaced the V8 with a Lamborghini V10, it came to the peak.
The R8 would have a second generation, stronger, faster and more effective car in the circuits. There would be limited versions such as the Audi R8 Deennium, which was released in 2019 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 5.2 -liter magnificent V10 engine. They were only produced 222 units One of the most expensive production in the history of German super car.
To a death announced from the celebration
However, at the end of 2010, Audi already played the idea of encouraging R8. The year when the R8 Decenium started at Ingolstadt The point and end of the commercial life of the symbolic sports of motor Central in 2023.
According to the decision, Audi tried to deterd the R8 at the end of the same year, but a great demand by the buyers of this model, knowing that the brand would not commercialize in the future (at least not as a internal combustion car), caused Audi to prolong the production of R8 for a few more months by 31 March 2024.
Since then, many of them are rumors that speculate with the possibility of returning the Audi R8 in the future. And before these rumors, the CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, KJELL GRUNERLast week, the New York 2025 Motor Fair replied before the media and ended with them.
They don’t see an Audi R8 future in Volkswagen
This is a debate about the product portfolio: what is applicable in the market, Gr Gruner said before the journalists who asked him about being a new R8 that the Volkswagen Group president has added to him in the future: “Gruner said.I don’t see a vehicle with central motor and internal burning on the roadmap“
Simple, direct and tremendously ruthless to those waiting for the return of the R8. I am particularly with the last sentence that Volkswagen American Group has not seen a “central engine and a vehicle with internal burning”. This opens the door for a central motor sports car, but not burning.
Maybe an electric Audi R8 is currently on the drawing tables of the Audi design equipment. Or, perhaps the brand knows that it is simply difficult to digest by the most purists to become an electric car, the most representative model of the Audi Sport Range for almost twenty years.
GTI and Golf R Golf still have a market despite their sales.
What confirmed Volkswagen’s mandations in the United States was that the most sporty versions of Volkswagen Golf, the internal combustion engine of Volkswagen Golf, came to stay to stay in the first quarter of these 2025 in North America.
“US market is not a hatchback market“Gruner said before the press.” It developed over time: There was a time when the hatchbacks were trends and then the minivans. SUVs are now a trend; They can almost do anything of a customer. The hatchbacks will never be a big market in the United States, and to be honest, they don’t have to be for us. “
These statements come after Volkswagen Golf GTI In the first quarter of the year, while the United States had a decline in sales, Golf R It experienced a similar situation, but with a decrease of 37.6%.
“However, with our German roots, these fun hatchbacks are also very important from the brand’s point of view.” “Volkswagen focuses on fun on the wheel. If you enter a Golf GTI, go out with a smile. We will continue there, no doubt“
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