We’ve known this day was coming for a good while now, but it still doesn’t make it any easier: The Audi R8 is officially dead.
Well technically, we still don’t know for sure if Audi has any plans to build an all-electric supercar and revive the name, but it’s curtains for the proper internal combustion R8 after just two generations. Sad times.
Audi pieced together the final car at its Böllinger Höfe plant near Stuttgart recently, and Top Gear was there to witness the occasion. You’ll be able to read the full story in the upcoming issue of Top Gear magazine, but all you need to know now is that the R8 you see above will be the last example of the ‘sensible supercar’ that Audi ever builds.
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Good way to bow out, though, isn’t it? That’s a 612hp Performance quattro Edition with Vegas Yellow paint, bronze 20-inch alloys, and the exterior carbon pack. Also, in sticking with its 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10, the Audi R8 became anything but a sensible supercar. This particular example won’t be going to a customer, though—it’s destined for Audi Tradition and a relaxing, museum-based life. Please someone show it 8,700rpm.
Of course, we were told a while back that the bewinged GT special edition was going to be the last R8—but when the car’s death was announced, orders rocketed and so the standard quattro and RWD versions were built for just a few more months.
Now it’s all over, though, and the folks at the Böllinger Höfe factory will be left solely screwing together all-electric e-tron GTs. RIP, R8, it’s been...loud.
More photos of the final Audi R8:
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
