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“We have retained the craftsmanship from the R8’s manufacturing and added new and intelligent technologies. And our employees immediately transferred all their passion from the R8 to the e-tron GT.” Audi Sport GmbH produces the Audi R8 and the two all-electric models, the Audi e-tron GT quattro and Audi RS e-tron GT, at the Böllinger Höfe industrial park in Heilbronn. The small batch production of the Audi subsidiary’s two most powerful and sporty vehicles, not far from its Neckarsulm headquarters, is unique in the Group. “We have managed to put two completely different vehicles on one assembly line: The high-performance R8 sports car with a V10 combustion engine was joined by the e-tron GT, which is an all-electric Gran Turismo,” says Wolfgang Schanz, production manager at Böllinger Höfe. Planned to be highly flexible from the outset, Audi Sport GmbH is merging the best of two worlds at the end of 2020.

The R8 V10 performance RWD is manufactured – predominantly by hand – at the “Böllinger Höfe” sports car production facility in Heilbronn, not far from Neckarsulm, Audi’s second location in Germany. The Audi R8 has been manufactured here since 2014, and in 2019 the factory was expanded as well as upgraded and converted to accommodate the Audi e-tron GT. As a result, Audi’s two most powerful and fastest production models of all time are now being built here. “Manufacturing two vehicles that are so technologically different on one assembly line is unique across the group,” noted production manager Wolfgang Schanz. “With the integration of the all-electric four-door coupe, our small-scale production facility at Audi's Böllinger Höfe has transformed into a highly flexible high-tech production facility that nevertheless retains its small-scale character.” The LMS GT4 race car, which is directly derived from the production model and uses around 60 percent of the same parts, is also built at the site. Up to 1,000 highly qualified employees work in sports car production here on around 40,000 square meters of production space.