Audi R8 2018 Video Review

A rear-wheel-drive performance car from Audi? Unheard of. It would be like Tony Abbott officiating a same-sex marriage. Or Richard Dawkins suddenly finding God. It goes against everything we've come to know about the Quattro brand from Ingolstadt.

And yet there is no denying the massively obnoxious sideways drift currently taking place on Phillip Island's Honda Corner, the familiar tail of Audi's R8 sliding sideways like a swinging pendulum the moment the driver buries the accelerator.

Welcome, then, to Audi's R8 V10 RWS. Those three bonus letters stand for "Rear Wheel Series", which makes it not just the first rear-driving R8, but the first rear-driving anything from a brand that has been intrinsically linked with all-wheel-drive Quattro since its inception.

Read the full Audi R8 2018 review: RWS.