BMW handed over the first i8 with laser headlights to customers last week, beating out Audi with the R8 LMX (which was supposed to be the first production car with lasers, according to the automaker). However, Audi didn't like that and came up with a new, somewhat surprising claim in the laser light war .
According to Audi, the R8 LMX is the fastest production car with laser headlights . Under its hood hides a 5.2-liter ten-cylinder gasoline engine with an output of 570 horsepower and a torque of 540 Nm. With it, the R8 accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.4 seconds and reaches a maximum speed of 320 km/h.
Its arch-rival, BMW's i8 , uses a plug-in hybrid system with a three-cylinder 1.5 TwinPower Turbo and an electric motor with a combined output of 362 horsepower . Acceleration to 100 km/h takes 4.4 seconds (a whole second slower than the Audi) and the maximum speed is only 250 km/h. But Audi will probably never have a paper consumption of 2.1 l/100 km.
So the question arises whether BMW has anything to say against this claim. Personally, I'm waiting for a statement that the BMW i8 is the most ecological serial car with lasers , to which Audi will respond with higher equipment and it will go on like this until one car company runs out of arguments…
Source: worldcarfans.com
