Love it - People will grow to like this car...

 

Will make a nice used buy with 30k miles/half price....get the A8L and pound it as a daily.

I did the same thing with my current A8L 2006, its a ton of car for the money used/CPO.

 

YAY!! It is finally here!

 

Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy mother****er. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charming mother****in' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?

 

The gearshift looks like an Ironing board and why add a clock?! it's reminding me of a chinese car!

 

Not a fan of the clock (who told all the automakers that an analog clock was a sign of premium suddenly?) but I do like the gearshifter. Looks like it belongs in a cockpit...

 

Interior is nice, no better than a Panny with full leather. At least the Porsche is different. Will have to see it in person.

 

I was expecting something a little more extreme and different but the interior looks nice.

 

Very nice, I like the gear lever. But I'll have a Panamera turbo, thanks very much!

 

Engines

3.0 TDI 204 HP / 6,0 L/100 KM only FWD version

3.0 TDI 250 HP / 550Nm / 0-100 6,6 Sec / 6,6 L/100 Km

4.2 TDI 350 HP / 800Nm / 0-100 5,5 Sec / 7,6 L/100 Km

4.2 FSI 372 HP / 445Nm / 0-100 5,7 Sec / 9,5 L /100 Km



Audi S8 to set new standard

The forthcoming Audi S8, the hot version of the new A8 saloon, will set the template for the design of the company's future performance models, design director Stefan Sielaff has told Autocar.

"It will create a new design grammar which will also go onto the next S6, S7 and S1," said Sielaff.

This is also one of the first times that a senior Audi source has admitted that hit versions of the new A7 fastback and A1 supermini are in the pipeline.

Sielaff revealed that all of these S models would have more visual differentiation over the standard models than the current S line-up.

He also talked of increased use of aluminium and carbonfibre in the cabins to make them more special.

The next S8 is likely to be seen late next year, powered by a turbo V8 rather than the Lambo-sourced V10 of the current model.