Today, Audi’s fast flagship is the electric RS E-Tron GT Performance. It’s hugely powerful (925hp) and bonkers-fast (0-62mph in 2.5 seconds), but also a very different animal to the R8 ...

The Audi R8 V10 supercar is being sent ... reaching 62mph 0.3sec slower at 3.4sec, but this is reversed by 124mph where the new GT will sail past in just 10.1sec, 0.2sec ahead of the all-wheel ...

We know this because, ask anyone travelling on the A9 Autobahn towards Dresden on that Tuesday afternoon, there was this grunge-grey Audi R8 GT bellowing out its 0-62mph in 3.6sec thing ...

The Audi R8 was a car of many firsts for the German brand. The R8 was Audi's first supercar, and cemented the brand's stature among the Ferraris and Lamborghinis of the day. The first-generation ...