Yes, please.
The sports car market is shrinking and Audi has been forced to reexamine the TT/R8 to see if the models can still be viable. Many rumors suggested the death of the supercar with naturally aspirated engines and the four-door conversion of the baby R8 to a supercar, but Ingolstadt has a different idea.
Audi unveiled a number of new products at this week’s Annual General Meeting. new models for 2019 Hans-Joachim Rothenpieler is the technical development board member of the company and spoke briefly about the topic.
TT The R8. He referred to the R8 as emotional and said that Audi had been having “emotional discussions at the board-level”. He acknowledged that some people in the company wanted to eliminate the TT, but Rothenpieler is fighting for it to be kept alive.
Rothenpieler said that he will try to persuade high-ranking officials to keep the TT in production but electrified.
In an effort to save Audi’s flagship performance vehicle, the R8 from certain doom, Rothenpieler will also be doing the same. Although that is a good thing, CEO Bram Schot warned that the models must make a profit to survive. The addition of the R8 and the R8 makes sense if the cars sell enough. Audi has recently redesigned the R8 and TT, so you can still buy these cars for a few years. What’s next? We don’t know, but we hope the nameplates will remain in some form. If the two vehicles are fully electrified, they will be joined by the Tesla Model S-rivaling E-Tron GT in 2021 as well as the newly launched E-Tron crossover within Audi’s EV range. A new E-Tron Sportback will be available later in the year, as well as a Q2 L E-Tron for the Chinese market.