Re: 488 GTB/GTS
RC:noone1:All cars make sense since they'll all just share technology. Lamborghini, Audi, and Porsche can all have success exotic cars if it's all group technology. There is more than enough wealth in the world to accommodate healthy sales for all of them, especially if they have different price points.
$200K R8, $250K 960, $300K Lamborghini. Works fine.The Huracan and the R8 are quite close, price-wise, in Germany. It works because the Huracan is an exotic, the R8 is socially more acceptable and lacks the reputation of the Lambo. I do not see the R8 next to a 960 though, especially if they are performance-wise close to each other, even if they have a different price tag.
I love my R8 but I do not see what this car has to do with Audi and their "bread and butter" products.
Compared to the M Gmbh and even AMG products, I think the Quattro GmbH is having a more exotic approach, probably resulting in the only true German super sportscar, the R8. Yes, the 911 Turbo S is a super sportscar as well but it is not using your typical sports car design. The 918 is of course in the same category (more hypercar than super sportscar) but since Porsche doesn't produce it anymore, the R8 is the only one left.
Sorry but I really think that Audi needs to give up the R8, for the sake of Porsche. It would be funny for Porsche to develop the next R8 but not be "permitted" to offer a car in the same class of their own. Doesn't make sense to me.
The entire Lamborghini brand isn't bread and butter and worth practically nothing in the scope of things, neither will be a 960 Porsche. Porsche's bread and butter is the Cayenne. Exotics mean very little in the scope of VW's future and success. They pour money into them simply because they're established and it doesn't make sense not to at this point. Some profit is better than no profit, and it lets them test new/expensive technologies, like the hybrid aluminum/CF chassis in the R8/Huracan for example.