{"id":5143,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:30:12","slug":"rendered-speculation-pondering-what-an-electric-audi-r4-roadster-would-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5143","title":{"rendered":"Rendered Speculation: Pondering what an electric Audi R4 roadster would look like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last month&#x27;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/FrankfurtMotorShow\/\">Frankfurt Motor Show<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/audi\/\">Audi<\/a> board member Michael Dick confirmed that a production version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/09\/15\/frankfurt-2009-audi-e-tron-is-red-outside-nice-inside\/\">electric eTron sports car<\/a> concept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/10\/05\/report-audi-plans-to-produce-e-tron-begin-testing-prototypes-w\/\">would be produced by late 2012<\/a>. Following the show, Audi NA president Johan de Nysschen confirmed that announcement and now <em>AutoExpress<\/em> has produced a rendering of a production model. However, there appears to be some details lost in the translation. The eTron is based on the aluminum space frame of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/audi\/r8\/\">R8<\/a> while <em>AE<\/em> says the R4 will be a smaller roadster with a chassis shared with the next generation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/porsche\/boxster\/\">Porsche Boxster<\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/porsche\/cayman\/\">Cayman<\/a>. <br \/>\n An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/AudiR4\/\">Audi R4<\/a> has been speculated for some time, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/rumormill\/\">rumors<\/a> flaring up after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/volkswagen\/\">VW<\/a> showed off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/01\/11\/detroit-2009-volkswagen-concept-bluesport-roadster-live\/\">concept BlueSport in Detroit<\/a> this year. It&#x27;s not clear if Audi will move ahead with the larger R8-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\">EV<\/a> sportster or a smaller machine, or perhaps both. If they do, something like this rendering would be welcome, combining elements of the BlueSport, the eTron and even the top and flying buttresses of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/lotus\/elise\/\">Lotus Elise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoexpress.co.uk\/news\/autoexpressnews\/243277\/mini_r8_is_raring_to_go.html\">AutoExpress<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/10\/14\/rendered-speculation-pondering-what-an-electric-audi-r4-roadste\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-10-14T16:31:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last month&#x27;s Frankfurt Motor Show, Audi board member Michael Dick confirmed that a production version of the electric eTron sports car concept would be produced by late 2012. Following the show, Audi NA president Johan de Nysschen confirmed that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}