The current, second generation of the Audi R8 received a facelift in 2018. Technically speaking, it doesn’t have much to offer, but it gives Audi’s supercar a distinctly different appearance. Different, but also better?
Launched in 2015, the second-generation R8 actually looks like a sleek, modernized variant of its predecessor. As a mid-engine supercar in the range of a ‘mainstream’ German car manufacturer, the R8 still has a unique position in the car world. Nothing changed at all when a sharpened version of this R8 was presented in 2018.
Normally we like to point out in this section that more has changed than you might think at first glance, but that is certainly not the case with the R8. Even the headlights, almost always the leapfrog when a facelift comes, were allowed to stay. The external news at the front is therefore limited to the front bumper, which of course also includes the grille in this car. It’s as if that bumper has collapsed slightly due to an excess of heat. The grille is wider, flatter and lower, leaving a few centimeters at the top between the front cover and bumper. Also on the inside of the headlights the bumper seems to have lost contact with the rest of the car. Of course this was the intention, because now Audi could place an extra grid here.
The situation under the headlights is also clearly different. Where the air inlets on both sides used to connect directly to the light unit, a beam that has been sprayed along has now been installed between the mesh and the light source. This mesh is then split vertically again by a kind of splitter.
Also at the rear, the cooling vents are no longer visually connected to the taillights. Instead, since 2018, the R8 has had fencing that spans almost the entire width of the car, including the area where the number plate will be mounted. The rather subtle exhaust tips in the first series have been replaced by fist-thick, oval-shaped units in a huge diffuser.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl