Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Audi, First Drives, Luxury
The Surgical Scalpel Of Super Sports Sedans
This is less a story about a car than the tale of a 520-horsepower Turbocharged Fuel Stratified Injection (TFSI) V8 engine and the vehicle
Audi reengineered to surround it. That's not even our idea: Sven Stockmar, Audi's Global Head of Product Marketing, made a point of standing behind a model of the engine - not the S8 - when he began his presentation.
This idea you can call ours: If we found the
2011 A8 "A Plus-Sized S4 with World-Beating Tech," then a single-sentence review of the S8 is [spoiler alert]: "A Plus-Sized S4 with
520 Horsepower and World-Beating Tech." There is no question that the results shine brightly and one Audi exec was right to label the S8 as "a smarter force." We only wish the car were, well, more forceful about it.
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2012 Audi S8 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows thieves would rather snatch a high performance car over chop-shop money-makers like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. In 2009 numbers, released last night, the Audi S8 and Shelby GT500 Mustang jumped to the top of the list of preferred targets for a generation of car thieves raised on
Grand Theft Auto.
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The latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows thieves would rather snatch a high performance car over chop-shop money-makers like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. In 2009 numbers, released last night, the Audi S8 and Shelby GT500 Mustang jumped to the top of the list of preferred targets for a generation of car thieves raised on
Grand Theft Auto.
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Audi's new mid- and full-sized S models have undergone a bit of engine downsizing plus boosting, while gaining in the fuel-economy area. What will the Audi faithful say when they say a twin-turbo eight in place of that lovely V10? Duck and cover.
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It's been several months since
Audi unveiled its latest
A8 flagship sedan, and you know what that means, boys and girls: that's right, a new
S8 is almost upon us.
The performance version of the luxury limousine has been spied undergoing what looks like final testing, given a lack of camouflage or body cladding on the test mule snapped in our high-res image gallery. The face looks more aggressive than the stock A8 but rather subtle and still tastefully elegant, with bigger wheels filling the wells and larger brakes in turn filling the wheels.
But, of course you want to know what's under the hood. Don't we all. Following a similar trajectory to arch-rival
BMW's latest M5,
word on the street is that the
Lamborghini-derived V10 from the previous S8 will be replaced by the new twin-turbo V8 expected to find its way as well into the new
S6,
S7 and
Bentley Continental GT. Output and efficiency are expected to increase, however, with power ratings mooted in the 500 horsepower range.
That's a lot of beef, and if we had to guess, we'd say we'll probably be scoping it out in person come September's
Frankfurt Motor Show.
2012 Audi S8 brings genteel muscle originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The New England Patriots quarterback
on the benefits of last week's
crashing of a borrowed 2010 Audi S8.
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