To celebrate winning the Golden Steering Wheel award from Auto Bild, Audi is displaying this gold-chrome R8 V10 Plus at the Audi Forum Neckarsulm adjacent to the factory where it’s built.
This celebratory Audi R8 V10 Plus comes in tone-on-tone satin gold stripe up the center, flanked by black pinstripes for extra contrast. Fortunately the accents – including the wheels, grilles, mirrors, air scoops, and rear wing – were left in black rather than chromed up.
Following the original that debuted in 2006, the new second-generation R8 was introduced earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show. It eschews the V8 available in the previous version exclusively for the 5.2-litre V10. In the Plus spec pictured here, it produces over 600hp, channeled to all four wheels through a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.
The R8 won the Golden Steering Wheel (Goldenes Lenkrad) award this year in the sports car category, alongside the Audi A4, Opel Astra, Hyundai i20, and the BMW X1, 2 Series Gran Tourer, and 7 Series.
The Golden Steering Wheel awards recognize the best new cars of the year. Organised by the German automotive magazine Auto Bild and the weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag, the awards programme is conducted in cooperation with sister publications in 20 countries. Across Europe, 425,000 readers participated in the voting process.
Source: via Autoblog
