Audi News: Rumorpile: Leaked Audi Roadmap Says R8 V6 Is Coming In 2018

[William Maley]

This has not been a good week for Audi in terms of leaks. Earlier this week, we reported on a video that showed Audi introducing the RS3 sedan to employees. Now a product roadmap has come to light showing what's in store for next two years.

 

Dutch site Autobahn.eu got their hands on a picture showing the timeline for Audi products in 2017 and 2018. Let's start with 2017. The roadmap shows the RS3 sedan, the Q7 e-tron (a plug-in hybrid that will either come with a gas or diesel engine), and the SQ7 (performance version much like the SQ5 that could offer a tweaked supercharged V6 or a V8). We also spy the A5 and S5 coming in 2017 - makes sense as the new A4 has been launched and the A5 is basically an A4 coupe. 2017 will also a second-generation of the TT RS.

 

2018 is where some big news comes in. This will be the year where Audi will introduce two new crossovers, an electric one and the Q8 (we believe to be a coupe-like crossover). There's a new RS5 and what most people have been going crazy about, a V6 version of the R8 supercar. Autoblog speculates this could be due to Chinese market taxing high displacement engines.

 

Nevertheless, we'll be seeing if this leaked roadmap pans out in the future or not.

 

Source: Autobahn.eu, Autoblog

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[balthazar]

Wonder how the writer is quantifying "most people"… there's practically zero buyers for the R8.

[G. David Felt]

Yawn, some interesting bits but might as well wait till it actually shows up.