Category: Large Executive 
Price Range: £49,995 to £80,995
Superb build quality inside and out, understated style, excellent quattro chassis, fine engines, spacious cabin
Potentially expensive body repairs, ride quality not best in class
Discreet, but beautifully engineered luxury car.
Audi has long struggled to break Mercedes' and BMW's stranglehold on the upmarket executive car class, and the A8 was the result of a massive engineering effort. The clean-sheet approach allowed Audi to make a technological step forward by building the car entirely of aluminium. Under the sleek (if typically Audi) aluminium skin is a chassis made up of aluminium beams. The result is a light, stiff and immensely strong car that comes with fine range of six- and eight-cylinder engines as well as Audi's superb quattro four-wheel drive system on all models. A clever car for people who admire clever engineering. Replaced by all-new model in 2003.
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wrote on 05 05 2007