A luxury saloon with immense power made famous by its part driving round Paris and the South of France in Ronin.

 

 

The S8, a V8 with a difference, performance, luxury and styled aggresively. This car is basically the same as the A8 with quattro - all wheel drive and an aluminum space frame, but thats where the similarities end comes this monster of a car features aluminum uprated sports suspension, all round vented brake discs front 13.6 inch and the rear 11 inch, Brembo aluminium brake calipers finished off with 18-inch Avus alloys with 245/45ZR18 rubber all as standard.

 

 

 

The engine is the same as the A8 saloon, a V8 with a 4.2 capacity, but with one difference it has 60bhp. This in mind the S8 has been lowered all round by 20 mm than the standard A8, the shocks have been stiffened 30 percent more and the springs uprated and the compression damping is 40% higher with thicker stabiliser bars therefore giving considerably more grip increasing handling balance dramatically (0.88g on the skidpad vs. 0.77g for the A8) hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwith a harsher ride. The car has light power steering, however its agility still keeps it bounds ahead of its closest competitor, the Mercedes SL55 AMG.

 

The S8 comes equipped with some extremely good safety features including an electronic differential lock (EDL) this and the brakes combined provides a targeted force distribution to the wheels with a great degree of traction, also there is ESP electronic stabiliser program, ASR traction control, ABS brakes and 8 airbags.

 

The Audi S8 Quattro runs a six speed manual transmission, in the US a Tiptronic Gearbox replaced the 6 speed manual and has a few exterior differences from the A8 though hard to spot chrome door mirrors, a chrome-lined air intake, exclusive wheels, red and silver motor sport emblems front & rear.

The inside is fitted with Nappa leather, heated mirrors, power everything, cruise control, solar panel glass sunroof, system GPS, remote security system with alarm & immobiliser, electric rear sunblind, a nearside mirror tilts down when reversing, 10-speaker BOSE sound system with CD Shuttle and numerous other features.

 

Engine - 4.2 litre V8

 

0-60 - 6 seconds

Top speed - 155mph (Limited)