Category: Large Executive 
Price Range: £49,995 to £81,100
Refined engines, very good automatic gearbox, excellent seats, good quality interior, ease of use of major controls
Some tyre hum, higher-speed suspension control, functionality of MMI and minor controls, a little conservative on the inside
As the sporting answer to the luxury segment, the A8 doesn't come across as all that sporting, but it is competent and accomplished. As a follow-up to the previous A8, it's the car you could have predicted Audi would make, if not the car you'd hoped it might
The mammoth depreciation means that second-hand A8s are relatively cheap, especially at three or four years old, and if they've come off a luxury-hire fleet. Buying a used example has always been the best way into an A8. Just bear in mind that it will still incur the other running costs of a £50K motor.
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wrote on 05 05 2007