All Torque, No Action: Audi reportedly cancels R8 TDI
by Noah Joseph (RSS feed) on May 7th, 2009 at 1:59PM
If anyone could have done a diesel supercar, it would have been Audi. After achieving utter domination in Le Mans racing with its R10 TDI, the German automaker unveiled two successive turbodiesel concept versions of the R8 supercar at the Detroit show and then at the Geneva salon in 2008. But after whetting our appetites for an oil-burning supercar with instant power delivery and endless reserves of torque, Audi has reportedly canceled development of its R8 TDI program. Apparently, the R8 was not originally designed to accommodate the company's enormous V12 turbodiesel engine, and... Read More
