As the performance of most car manufacturers today, losing those extra pounds in their flagship coupe displaying their ability to build a more serious and coupe from the basic model, to serve a wider audience and still built a budgeted cost. Manufacturers like Porsche has long known this and you can see in the 911-series cars. You have a fundamental Carerra Carerra S, which then morphs into, GT3 GT3 RS, which then. Each model is a little more performance oriented than before to the point where he had gone far enough weight loss and extreme is the key to better performance.

So now that Audi has a mild version of their flagship coupe and R8 are called GT R8. This car weighs 1525kgs compared with the R8 V8 4.2, the weight of 1625kgs. As if hearing about the weight of 100 kg in the car that has been made of lightweight aluminum alloy Audi is not enough to say that the car is equipped with a V10 engine used in a very obvious name of the R8 V10. So we have extra capacity combined with weight loss.

Now for the details of the weight that I consider interesting. GT R8 has a windshield made of thin glass. Glass is used between the cab and engine compartment when the tailgate was replaced with plexiglass polycarbonate. All in the name of the car 9kgs. Carbon fiber rear wing, to remove 1.2kg. aluminum foil and an additional hole made for the hatch kg aluminum for the front luggage stored 2.6.

The back of the engine has been replaced by carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and remove an additional 6.6 kg in the rear. Knife back and sides (the R8 design characteristics so pronounced) also CFRP and save 5.2kg and 1.5kg respectively.

Germany is so very efficient and close to suffering from Obsessive Compulsive edge also attacked R8 mechanical parts. He shaved brake 1kg, 4kg cap disc brakes, battery 9.4kg, 2.3kg of air intake system and 2.8kg in the engine compartment insulation. Exhaust system also uses a lighter design and construction methods.

They also handled the interior and carpet used in the R8 GT both weigh 7.9kg lighter than before. How do they make so much lighter carpet in such a small car? The basis R8 with a pile carpets really thick? They also threw normal electrically adjustable sports seats and seat racing cars that are used more and lose 31.5kgs really substantial.

GT R8 is equipped with 5.2 liter V10 engine and Audi had to play about with it and now produces 560bhp, an increase of 525bhp. Torque by 10Nm to 540Nm and knock it makes 0-100km / h in 3.6 seconds, 0-200 km / h in 10.8 seconds with a top speed of 320 km / h (198.4 mph).

R8GT transmission used in the transmission of the R-tronic sequential manual. It is basically manual gearbox with electro-hydraulic valve solenoid clutch pedal and operates through a gear flappy. Changing gear at full song only takes 1/10th of a second. As usual in the car now are two modes in the two modes in automatic and manual shifting. Launch Control is added and all systems go through a transmission line which is basically 15% of power to the front and 85% on the back, making the R8 GT is back biased. Of course, up to 30% of power can be transferred to the front if necessary.

In addition, Audi’s lightweight internal mountain venting carbon ceramic brake discs on GT R8 .. Together they weight 9 kg less than their steel counterparts of the same size. They measure 380 millimeters (14.96) in front of a diameter of 356 mm (2.14 in) on the back.

The 19-inch forged rims 8.5 J x 19 J x 19 front and 11 rear and shod with 235/35 and 295/30 tires, respectively. Audi, together with the optional 305/30 tires mounted on the rear wheels on demand. Cup ties, which offers the ultimate in performance on dry roads, is available for racing fans.