Audi V8 News

The last S8 had a guilty secret. Despite trumpeting its lightweight aluminium architecture, and featuring a V10 powerplant that weighed just 220kg, Audi was a little less forthcoming about the fact that the car's all-up weight of 1,940kg was but a couple of bags of sugar less than a lump like a BMW 745i.

The XJ AWD comes with a 3.0-liter supercharged V6 mated to an eight speed automatic Photo by Jaguar.

FOR those with a bit of spending power who want dash rather than flash, the Audi S8 ticks all of the boxes.

Audi teased the motoring world back at the Paris Auto Show in 2010 with the Quattro Concept that you see above.

AWE Tuning's Samoa Orange metallic B8.5 S5 sits on a dyno at the company's Willow Grove headquarters.

DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: Beautiful to look at and sit in, the 2013 Audi S7 nevertheless left me with mixed feelings, much as it's kissin' cousin the S6 did.

Every now and again, 5 Cars likes to delve within the realm of imagination, and this week is one of those times.

Audi is planning to return the Quattro to its lineup some 30 years after the original model first appeared, Autoweek sources say.

For those of you who have recently purchased an Audi S4 or S5 and find the power from its 3.0-liter supercharged V6 lacking, don't worry.

Outstanding performance, supermodel looks and everyday civility all come together in the sublime Audi R8.

Like the A4 sedan it shares a platform with, for 2013, the 2+2 A5/S5 two-door Coupes receive subtly narrower headlights , slightly revised taillights, a more chiseled look to the front grille, interior refinements, plus steering and suspension tweaks.

June 14, 2013: Oscar-winning actor Gwyneth Paltrow descended on Piccadilly in London to attend the launch of the latest Audi - the RS 6 Avant - an estate with supercar performance.

Lexus is generally thought of in terms of producing luxury-level vehicles, ranging from entry to premium status.

Hidden in some barn in an abandoned town in Eastern Europe there might be an Audi S8.

Each of those words are synonyms for big and bold combine all four and you've got one of the largest, most powerful and robust street-going sport utility vehicles in the world.

"Just because a car's expensive doesn't make it a luxury car." Consultant Jim Hall said that to me recently, but I didn't get the point until I sat in the 2013 Jaguar XJL Portfolio AWD sedan.

Talk about diversity - as senior features editor Jonny Lieberman points out in our new comparison test of the 2014 Audi R8 V8 Spyder , 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG , and 2013 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet , the Germans all do convertibles differently from one another.

The dilemma: Garry is getting close to retirement age but the last thing he wants is a "sensible" vehicle and at the moment he's driving a 2003 3.5-litre V6 Nissan Skyline Coupe.

But they are something, and in the peculiar case of the 2013 Audi S8-which I believe is the quickest full-size, five-seat production sedan in all the world, a siege cannon against the walls of imagination-I hope casual readers will forgive some talk of deck height, manifold routing and zero-lift cams in the interests of a larger point.

Ford's 1.0 litre turbocharged three-cylinder EcoBoost has been named the International Engine of the Year 2013 and best Sub-1 litre titles, repeating its wins in last year's awards .