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  • Audi A8 teaser

    New Audi A8 teaser

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  • Audi A8

    Underneath the shared face, however, the two cars are quite different. Like the last A8 and the one before, this model has an aluminium space frame. Back in 1994 it became the first luxury car to be made of the stuff, and it's a technique Jaguar copied with the XJ. The fact that the new A8 is just 6.5kg lighter than the outgoing car is no underachievement - it's 24 per cent stiffer, packs more kit than ever and you'd have to make it from tin foil to go much lighter.

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  • Audi A8

    While it may not be the automatic choice for gangsters and pinstriped execs, the A8 has always held a quiet superiority over other luxo-barges. It's big and fast, yet understated and cool, and never feels in-yer-face. So under the disco lights and smokescreens at the launch of the new car in Miami, we wondered if it would retain that modesty.

    As the stage doors opened and the assembled glitterati drew breath, the car rolled out. And when the smoke cleared... it looked like they'd sent out the wrong one. Up there under the spotlight, it looked freakishly similar to the A4. Despite being bigger than ever, now the biggest in its class, you could easily mistake it for the smaller sibling. It seems the Audi gene pool has shrunk and the family resemblance is unavoidable.  

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  • Audi exec Michael Dick and the A8

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