until its recent rebranding as Audi Sport the brand’s high-performance skunkworks was called Quattro GmbH. Fast Audis are four-wheel drive: that’s a fact. Well, not quite, because the R8 RWS ...

The highlight is the R8 V10 GT RWD, the most powerful rear-wheel drive production car from Audi. It featured a retuned 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 with 611 horsepower, enough to push it from ...

Apart from the Audi R8 RWD and R8 RWD Performance, Audi has no precedence with rear-driven cars. On the contrary, it's the marque’s Quattro-branded all-wheel drive that was once central to the ...

Audi has resurrected its Twitter campaign to put lucky fans behind the wheel of an R8 for a day. The program generated a massive amount of attention last year, spurring the company to bring it ...

A two-seat, mid-engined Audi to take on the Porsche 911? This was something new. That original R8 had a 420hp 4.8-litre naturally aspirated V8, which drove all four wheels via an open-gate manual ...

After 18 years, the V10 GT RWD is a last hurrah for Audi’s R8 supercar. Tim Pitt goes for a nostalgic final drive.

The Audi R8 Spyder is squaring up against the Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet, which starts at £135,766 and matches the R8 for power. It hits 62mph half a second quicker, but many will prefer the R8’s ...