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In Geneva the premiere of sports car Audi R8 TDI Le Mans equipped with the powerful diesel engine of configuration V12 has taken place.

This of sport penalties with high degree of probability will go to a batch production. We will remind, on a motor show in Detroit company Audi already showed R8 with engine V12 TDI, but that was only concept.

Audi R8 V12 TDI it is accelerated from zero to 100 km/hour for 4,2 sec., has an indicator of the greatest possible speed over 300 km/hour. Such dynamics provide a penalty of 500 “horses” of the 6-liter motor and the whole 1000 Nanometers of a twisting moment.

On all four wheels of the car there are ceramic brakes with six-piston calipers, and the easy body weighs only 210 kg. However, interested excites that a little, on what is capable Audi R8 TDI Le Mans: the main question - when the car will appear on sale and will cost how many, and the company management while holds back it.

Company Audi has shared the first details about the next novelty - a compact hatchback which should make a competition to family of Mini. This car will show in some days in Tokyo where it will be presented as the concept car under name Audi Metroproject Quattro. On preliminary data, novelty Audi will receive system of an all wheel drive and a hybrid power-plant battery block has settled down in a luggage compartment under transparent glass through which are visible also knots of all-wheel drive transmission of the car. No other details about a technical stuffing of the concept car while are present. (more…)