Audi
Audi was established in Zwickau, Germany, by August Horch in 1909, taking its name from the Latin translation of his surname. The brand's four-ring emblem originated in 1932 with the merger of four regional carmakers - Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer - into Auto Union. Headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, Audi built much of its modern reputation around all-wheel-drive engineering, introducing its Quattro system in 1980, which reshaped rally racing and road-car traction standards.
A core subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group since 1966, Audi maintains a broad lineup spanning traditional sedans, Avant wagons, and Q-series SUVs, alongside high-performance RS models. The company is actively shifting its vehicle development toward battery-electric architectures under the e-tron badge as it prepares to transition away from pure internal combustion powertrains.
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To reduce weight, parts of the Sport quattro body were made from aramid-glass composites and carbon-fibre/Kevlar material.
The road-going Sport quattro used a five-cylinder engine with four valves per cylinder, producing 225 kW, or 306 PS.
Audi quoted 0–100 km/h in 3.4 seconds for the R8 LMX, making it the brand's fastest production model at the time.
Audi described the 2014 R8 LMX as the first production car equipped with laser high-beam headlights.
Audi records a total of 214 Sport quattro cars in the small production series, with the first examples completed in February 1984.
Specialist coachbuilder Baur was involved in producing lightweight body components for the small-series Sport quattro.
The special 2014 R8 LMX was limited to 99 cars and produced 570 PS.
At Böllinger Höfe, R8 body construction and final assembly were combined under one roof in a facility tailored to small-series production.
From autumn 2014, the R8 was assembled at Audi Sport's specialist Böllinger Höfe facility near Neckarsulm.
Over eight years of first-generation production, Audi built just over 26,000 R8s.
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