
Audi R8 42 Liberty Walk White GT Spirit 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- Audi
- Manufacturer
- GT Spirit
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Resin
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- GT325
- Year
- 2007
- Era
- 2000s
- Body Type
- Coupe
- Vehicle Class
- Tuner Specials
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Street Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 9580010309719
About the Audi R8 42 Liberty Walk White GT Spirit 1:18
TL;DR: GT Spirit's 1:18 resin Audi R8 wears Liberty Walk's widebody kit in gloss white: flared fenders, a vented hood, and deep-dish wheels over Audi's Type 42 chassis, the first-generation R8 from 2007. The body is a one-piece resin casting with no opening panels, built for widebody-focused shelves.
Liberty Walk didn't invent the widebody kit, but its flares turned the Audi R8 into something closer to a race car silhouette than Ingolstadt ever intended. GT Spirit's resin cast captures that transformation in gloss white, a color choice that lets every vent and flare line stand out instead of hiding behind a busy paint scheme.
GT Spirit's Resin Take on Liberty Walk's Audi R8 Kit
Widebody Flares and Vented Panels in One-Piece Resin
Liberty Walk's kit widens the R8's rear haunches well past the factory sheet metal, and GT Spirit reproduces that flare depth as part of a single cast resin shell rather than a bolt-on afterthought. Resin holds the compound curve where the flare meets the original quarter panel more cleanly than a pressed-metal body could, since the casting process doesn't need the tooling clearance a stamped panel requires. The vented hood section reads as a genuine cut rather than a painted-on graphic, with defined depth around each louver. Because openable_parts is No here, this body doesn't open. Every bit of that flare work lives on the surface, which is exactly where a widebody kit is supposed to be judged anyway.
White Finish and Stance Detail
White is a deliberate choice on a car this aggressive. It refuses to compete with the flare lines, the vents, or the wheel fitment, and instead lets those elements do the talking under a display light. The deep-dish wheels sit flush to the new arch line, the stance a real widebody build lives or dies on, and GT Spirit gets the offset close enough that the tire doesn't look tucked or bulging. Panel gaps read as consistent single grooves rather than uneven seams, a benefit of the sealed, one-piece construction resin allows at this price point.
The Audi R8 Type 42 Platform Under Liberty Walk's Kit
Audi's Debut Supercar and Its Type 42 Chassis
Audi launched the R8 in 2006 as its first purpose-built supercar, badged internally as the Type 42 and sharing its aluminum spaceframe architecture with the Lamborghini Gallardo. It was a genuinely new kind of Audi: mid-engined, low, and aimed directly at Porsche's 911 buyers rather than at another sedan segment. The 2007 example this model reproduces sits early in that first generation, before later facelifts changed the headlight signature. That original shape, with its distinctive side blade intake, is the canvas Liberty Walk chose to widen rather than redesign.
Why a Widebody Kit Suits This Shape
The R8's low beltline and pronounced haunches already gave it presence before any kit touched it, which is part of why tuners gravitate toward this platform. Liberty Walk's approach adds width at the rear where the factory car already carried visual weight, exaggerating a proportion the R8 offered rather than inventing one from scratch. That's a different philosophy than kits built for flatter-sided cars, and it's worth knowing before comparing this build to a widebody R8 done a different way.
Where This R8 Fits a Tuner-Focused Shelf
A widebody R8 reads differently next to a stock example. Placed side by side, the factory car looks almost conservative, and that contrast is the point of building a shelf around tuner subjects rather than only original-spec supercars. GT Spirit's resin construction keeps the price below what a hand-built, multi-material kit replica would cost, trading some mechanical detail for a cleaner exterior and consistent shut lines. That trade-off suits a widebody subject well, since the kit's value is entirely visual. For a collector already running Liberty Walk builds across other marques, this R8 adds a genuinely different silhouette, an Audi shape rather than another Lamborghini or Nissan, at a scale and price that fits comfortably alongside the rest of a tuner-themed collection.















