Vorsprung durch stretching - A8 L extended
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Audi has now built a special version of the A8, on specific customer requirements,
( seems too long for the camera lens) :
Even large corporations can adapt to unusual customer requirements,
as Audi has now shown with the A8 L extended.
The big Audi sedan was namely extended still further.
The A8 L is extended 636 cm long and the wheelbase is 422 cm.
In addition, there are six doors so every passenger has its own access door.
There is a 2.4-meter-long glass roof and otherwise the long Audi pours over lots of luxury on the passengers.
It is powered by a 3.0-liter TFSI with 310 hp (228 kW),
which still allows a sprint from 0 to 100 km / h in 7.1 seconds.
With a top speed of 250 km / h, it is also very fast on the road,
the power is transmitted via the quattro all-wheel drive to all four wheels.
For a good deceleration of 2.5 ton car, the braking system of the S8 is used.
A price for the individual item has not been quoted by Audi.
More info and photos here : http://www.heute.at/freizeit/motor/Audi-A8-L-exten...
( seems too long for the camera lens) :
Even large corporations can adapt to unusual customer requirements,
as Audi has now shown with the A8 L extended.
The big Audi sedan was namely extended still further.
The A8 L is extended 636 cm long and the wheelbase is 422 cm.
In addition, there are six doors so every passenger has its own access door.
There is a 2.4-meter-long glass roof and otherwise the long Audi pours over lots of luxury on the passengers.
It is powered by a 3.0-liter TFSI with 310 hp (228 kW),
which still allows a sprint from 0 to 100 km / h in 7.1 seconds.
With a top speed of 250 km / h, it is also very fast on the road,
the power is transmitted via the quattro all-wheel drive to all four wheels.
For a good deceleration of 2.5 ton car, the braking system of the S8 is used.
A price for the individual item has not been quoted by Audi.
More info and photos here : http://www.heute.at/freizeit/motor/Audi-A8-L-exten...
KungFuPanda said:
I've just bought the standard D4 A8 SWB with the same 3.0 TFSI engine. Going to get it remapped at MRC soon.
Surely the 4.2 TDI would have been a better engine to have with all it's torque.
I assume that's why they used the 3.0 TFSI (440Nm / 325 lb/ft) as opposed to the 2.0 TSI (350Nm / 258 lb/ft), since the 3.0 unit only has 30hp more output than the 2.0 when you consider just the ponies. Extra torque with none of the dag-dag-dag. TBF though the 4.2 V8 TDI does give a stonking 800Nm / 590 lb/ft, but yeah... noise. Plus the TDI will be highly unlikely to give peak torque between 2900 and 5300rpm.Surely the 4.2 TDI would have been a better engine to have with all it's torque.
As someone else said, funeral car.
Edited by rainmakerraw on Saturday 30th April 21:21
Artey said:
I guess you've not driven direct injected petrol engined car. Majority sound clattery like a diesel thanks to being DI.
Yes I've owned a couple. It's nowhere near as bad as a diesel to my ears, especially with the level of soundproofing you're going to get in an A8. Is the 3.0 even DI? The 2.0 TSI (EA888 gen3) in mine has both MPI and DI, and only uses DI to stabilise idle under some conditions, and under 100% load. The rest (read: 99%) of the time it's good old silent port injected.
tboxes. A 5 series is pushing it, a 7 series it a complete joke.rainmakerraw said:
Yes I've owned a couple. It's nowhere near as bad as a diesel to my ears, especially with the level of soundproofing you're going to get in an A8. Is the 3.0 even DI? The 2.0 TSI (EA888 gen3) in mine has both MPI and DI, and only uses DI to stabilise idle under some conditions, and under 100% load. The rest (read: 99%) of the time it's good old silent port injected.
The 3.0 TFSI is supercharged and is the same unit as in the S4/S5. Not sure if that means it's DI or not.
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