A very speedy Audi R8 GT, seen in front of the Volkswagen Technical Development Center inside the 798 art district in Beijing by reader Steven Li, thank you very much for the pictures! The good vehicle is painted and gold and made even faster with gray-black racing stripes and racy alloys in black and some gold. The license plate reads 423R8 and that is one of the best license plates we have seen on an Audi R8 in China so far.

The brilliant Audi R8 GT is a super fast variant of the Audi R8 V10. Power is up to 552hp and weight is down to 1525kg. Top speed is 320km/h and 0-100 is gone in 3.6 seconds. The R8 GT is limited to 333 cars world wide and we know of at least three examples living on the Chinese mainland. Price of the base V10 starts at 2.62 million yuan, the GT is priced around 3.3 million or 522.000 USD.

The Audi R8, in all its variants, is a very popular super car in China. Here is our Famous China-Audi R8 Collection™: matte black & orange, Pink, license (023R8), black alloys, bit of Bling, spyder in Gold, Audi TT, lime green, broken, Bling, China Edition, hits taxi, matte black, ABT Lambo-doors, another matte-black,  hits mail truck, Limited Edition, in blue and in matte army-green.