Performance Parts
Audi Sport to produce new performance parts and components for selected Audi models.
15 July, 2017
The new Audi Sport Performance Parts take dynamic handling to a wholly new level for the Audi R8 and the Audi TT models. The retrofit range will be available in dealers in Germany from later this year, with international markets to follow. “With the Audi Sport Performance Parts we are tapping into a new business segment,” says Stephan Winkelmann, Managing Director of Audi Sport GmbH. “Our wealth of experience garnered over many years of building sports cars is incorporated into every component we offer. Along with our expertise from motor racing, which is still the best test bed for volume production.”
The Audi Sport Performance Parts cover four areas to date: suspension, exhaust system, exterior and interior. The most spectacular offers in the Audi Sport Performance Parts are the Aero kits, which were developed in the Audi wind tunnel.
For the Audi R8 and the Audi TT they add clear-cut highlights on the front air inlets, the side sills and the diffuser. They also substantially improve downforce: On the Audi R8 the downforce is 250kg at 330km/h, an increase of over 100kg. The effect at 150km/h is even more pronounced – the downforce is doubled at this speed to 52kg.
There are also air splitters at the front as well as a large fixed rear wing. An engine bonnet with large air vent is also available for the Audi TT. All parts are made out of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) for the Audi R8 and for the Audi TT out of CFRP and plastic; all of them feature the Audi Sport logo.
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