Audi's new Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series competitor is improved with more luxury and tech
From better lights to clever smartphone integration, the new Audi A8 keeps the luxury charm going.Audi has reworked its flagship A8 limousine with a wider frame-grille, more chrome pasted on surfaces and numerous other enhancements. Here are 10 points to highlight on the new model. The new car is just 1cm longer than the car it replaces. Size remains virtually unchanged then with a wheelbase of three metres, length of 5.19m and width of 1.95m and height of 1.
Highlights include the ability for the A8 headlights to emit a carpet of light that illuminates the driver’s own lane particularly brightly while the digital organic light-emitting diode OLEDs at the rear are able to display different patterns such as when the “dynamic” Audi drive select mode is chosen, the lights change to a wider signature that is only available in that mode.Smartphone mirroring moves to the back where a pair of 10.
It benefits from bespoke equipment like expanded diamond quilting, logo embossing in the cushions, deep-pile floor mats and specifically designed Singleframe with vertical braces and a Horch emblem on the C-pillar and “H crown” rim design to indicate its individuality. A two-colour finish is also optional for customers in China. T
hree colour combinations, applied by hand, are available: Mythos Black and Florett Silver, Florett Silver and Mythos Black, and Firmament Blue and Ultra Blue.The enhanced Audi A8 starts in December in European markets. In Germany, the base price for the A8 is now 99,500 euros . SA will get only the short-wheel base S8 as per usual.
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