So what will Tony Stark drive?
The newly re-christened Audi Sport division sure has a busy few years ahead, despite having very recently lost its visionary boss Stephan Winkelmann to the venerated house of Bugatti. With sales of luxury-performance cars steadily increasing, Audi intends to join its fellow luxury marques in capitalising on this trend by offering more and more variants under the used-to-be-Quattro umbrella, bringing about competitors that will (hopefully) give cars from BMW’s M-Division and Mercedes-AMG a proper headache.
However, growth can only come with sacrifice, and it seems that the lamb has already been selected for slaughter. According to a report by AutomobileMag, the slow-selling Audi R8 supercar will be culled by the turn of the decade, along with its proposed e-Tron electric variant as well as the halo ‘Scorpion’ hypercar project, to make way for faster-selling, more pedestrian models. This may come as a bit of a surprise to those (like this writer) who thought that the R8 was selling in decent (if not healthy) numbers, and we’ll most certainly be sad to see the thinking man’s supercar’s demise.
Aside from that, Audi Sport will be assuming business as usual, pumping out uptuned and angrier versions of Audi’s core model range, with the lineup expected to be topped by the RS Q8, which will share its V8 motor with the 4.0-litre biturbo unit recently unveiled in the Lamborghini Urus. With 478kW on tap, the RS Q8 will certainly be no slouch, and we have little doubt that while Lamborghini aims to champion the “super-sports” niche of high-riding wagons, the RS Q8 will likely pack a greater breadth of ability.
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