Audi opens the R8 to the sky and sacrifices tiny in doing so.
It’s well-documented that chopping the roof off of a automobile usually includes a list of sacrifices made in exchange for open-sky motoring. This is not the case with the 2011 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro Spyder. The biggest compromise is doing without the kidney you’ll have to sell to afford the estimated $165,000 base price when the automobile arrives here in late fall. (Or you can wait an as-yet-unspecified period for a more inexpensive version with the standard R8’s 4.2-liter V-8.) But specifically compared to the R8 coupe, all the usual convertible penalties—excessive weight, reduced performance, a floppier chassis, cramped luggage space—are minor or nonexistent in the R8 Spyder.
As to rigidity, thicker A- and B-pillars together with added braces and panels in the floor make up for some of the stiffness that is lost when the roof is cut. The body-in-white is only 13 pounds heavier in droptop form, and factor in the 93-pound softtop and the electro-hydraulic hardware that powers its operation plus pop-up rollover protection, and the total weight gain is kept to 220 pounds or so. Mitigating the weight gain, however, is new bodywork in the rear. Instead of aluminum panels, the rear quarter-panels and the section that covers the stowed top are made of carbon fiber.
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Audi opens the R8 to the sky and sacrifices tiny in doing so.
It’s well-documented that chopping the roof off of a automobile usually includes a list of sacrifices made in exchange for open-sky motoring. This is not the case with the 2011 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro Spyder. The biggest compromise is doing without the kidney you’ll have to sell to afford the estimated $165,000 base price when the automobile arrives here in late fall. (Or you can wait an as-yet-unspecified period for a more inexpensive version with the standard R8’s 4.2-liter V-8.) But specifically compared to the R8 coupe, all the usual convertible penalties—excessive weight, reduced performance, a floppier chassis, cramped luggage space—are minor or nonexistent in the R8 Spyder.
As to rigidity, thicker A- and B-pillars together with added braces and panels in the floor make up for some of the stiffness that is lost when the roof is cut. The body-in-white is only 13 pounds heavier in droptop form, and factor in the 93-pound softtop and the electro-hydraulic hardware that powers its operation plus pop-up rollover protection, and the total weight gain is kept to 220 pounds or so. Mitigating the weight gain, however, is new bodywork in the rear. Instead of aluminum panels, the rear quarter-panels and the section that covers the stowed top are made of carbon fiber.
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