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THIS is the new Audi R8 V10 and if you can spot any visual difference between it and the current car you’re either a professional anorak or you work for Audi Sport.

You can’t? Good, because nor can I. Apparently its radiator grille is wider and flatter with thicker bars and it now runs across the full width of the car, the bottom of the bumper is wider and those two little diffusers below it are angled upwards.

Don’t claim you spotted any of that. You’d barely discover any difference until you took it on a track.

The normal R8 V10 has had a power lift from 540hp and 540Nm of torque to 570hp and 550Nm (408lb).

Figures

Result of that is 0-62mph in 3.4s and a top speed of

201mph. That’s impressive considering the current car’s figures are 3.7s and

198mph.

The V10 Performance, which sees the end of the name V10 Plus, gets a power uplift from 610 to 620hp while torque rises by just

10Nm to 560Nm (430lb). Top speed is the same 205mph while the 0-62mph sprint falls from 3.2 to 3.1s.

The V10 price rises from

£110,000 to around £128,000, which seems acceptable for the gain in performance and power.

Trouble is, the cost of saving 0.1 a second is likely to be an extra £7,000, with the car costing a predicted

£143,000 when it goes on sale in January.

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