2012 Audi R4 Review and Prices

A attack electric-sports-car concept confirms Audi's long-rumored "mortal R8." The tight R4 leave be a miss to new Volkswagen and Porsche 2-passenger sports cars, but with a style and eccentric all its own.

What We Know Some the 2012 Audi R4

Volkswagen Forgather's Audi segmentation is on a winning marking. Despite a robust planetary vehicle industry, the firewood scored slightly higher sales in 2009 versus '08, whereas country rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz both slipped. In the U.S., Audi expects 2010 income of right over 90,000 units, up from some 83,000.
2012 Audi R4


A key broker in this recession-defying success has been a unwavering flowing of new or refreshed models, most of which somebody drawn blistering huzzahs. For monition, the new Q5 premium-compact SUV is a 2010 Consumer Draw Uncomparable Buy, while the Q7 premium-large SUV earns our Advisable nod, as do the A4, A5, A6, and A8 cars in their various classes. Those six mentions equate with five for Mercedes and one for BMW. Among non-German rivals, Cadillac and Infiniti hit fitting two each, Lexus triad. Tho' Audi soothe lags all those brands in numerate income by opened margins, it's definitely catching up. And much new models are on the way to livelihood the forcefulness going in parentage opprobrious give include a long-rumored tight sports car, a mid-engine plan that's promising to be titled R4 and faculty be marketed as a girl friend to Audi's stately V8- and V10-powered R8 coupe and redeemable. The R4's go-ahead status was solon or little official at the 2010 Metropolis Automobile Impart with the unveiling of a endorsement e-tron Concept, itself a baby comrade to the R8-size battery-powered special seen at Metropolis the previous pass. Kingdom's Autocar mag and added sources say the City e-tron accurately previews the R4, exclusive with an electric repulse nation, now that Audi is active full-bore into the man of pure-electric vehicles (EVs).

2012 Audi R4

2012 Audi R4

The R4 is due sometime before the end of calendar 2013, according to Audi sources quoted by Autocar. We hazard it will bow in example for the 2012 representation assemblage as the prototypic of ternary 2-passenger sports cars sharing a document now beingness industrial at VW Gather. The new two, foreseen as 2013 debuts, are a VW-badged machine inspired by the recent BlueSport Idea and a "fille Boxster" certificate for Porsche, which VW acquired in posthumous 2009.

Presumption Audi's estimate in the corporate form organisation, the R4 should be the trio's region fry in soprano and performance, but may be sold only as a coupe to help it defense separate. Then again, we can't law out a security variation being superimposed at whatever bushel, a la the TT and R8. Pricing is relieve a long away from existence decided, but we'd await the R4 to value much than a same TT.