Photo: Automag.sk
Even though Skoda and Audi take shelter under the same umbrella, the only connection between the two are the A1/Fabia based on the A0 platform and the A3/Octavia based on the MQB. However, somebody has decided to use the fastest, coolest Audi around to make a Skoda… and it's awesome.
The 130 RS was Skoda's most successful racing car of all time, but people have forgotten all about it. So rather than letting it disappear from memory, designer Petr Novak dreamed up a modern day version.
He calls it the R200 Non-Fiction and says it celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original. The project started out with a V8 version of the outgoing Audi R8. Both the 4.2-liter FSI and its connecting six-speed manual were kept, but everything else is unique.
The biggest change is at the front, which has that 70s Skoda look about it. The headlights are round, and all the Audi creases have been ironed out. Around the back, it's a bit like a Lamborghini with those distinctive LED taillights.
We have reason to believe that those could actually be Bentley LED headlights we see at the front. That is because the whole car is built by Metal Hoffmann, a company that works with Bentley and Volkswagen on a regular basis.
Marek Hoffmann, the director of Metal Hoffmann, said the R200 will be put into very limited production and hinted prices could start somewhere around €255,000 ($273,000 at today's exchange rate). But you'll have to wait until 2016 to get one of only 24 cars that are going to be made.
The last bit of information we want to share are the dimensions. From bumper to bumper, the R200 Non-Fiction measures 4,400mm long; it's 2,000mm wide and only 1,300mm tall. Nothing has been done to the engine, so it should still deliver the same 420 PS and 430 Nm (317 lb-ft).
So without further ado, let's check out first Skoda supercar, photographed by AutoMag while on display at the DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic.
He calls it the R200 Non-Fiction and says it celebrates the 40th anniversary of the original. The project started out with a V8 version of the outgoing Audi R8. Both the 4.2-liter FSI and its connecting six-speed manual were kept, but everything else is unique.
The biggest change is at the front, which has that 70s Skoda look about it. The headlights are round, and all the Audi creases have been ironed out. Around the back, it's a bit like a Lamborghini with those distinctive LED taillights.
We have reason to believe that those could actually be Bentley LED headlights we see at the front. That is because the whole car is built by Metal Hoffmann, a company that works with Bentley and Volkswagen on a regular basis.
Marek Hoffmann, the director of Metal Hoffmann, said the R200 will be put into very limited production and hinted prices could start somewhere around €255,000 ($273,000 at today's exchange rate). But you'll have to wait until 2016 to get one of only 24 cars that are going to be made.
The last bit of information we want to share are the dimensions. From bumper to bumper, the R200 Non-Fiction measures 4,400mm long; it's 2,000mm wide and only 1,300mm tall. Nothing has been done to the engine, so it should still deliver the same 420 PS and 430 Nm (317 lb-ft).
So without further ado, let's check out first Skoda supercar, photographed by AutoMag while on display at the DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic.
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