Hatchback - Front (FWD) - 6 Speed tiptronic Automatic, 5 Speed Manual - 1595 cc - Max Speed: 116 mph - 102 bhp - Petrol - Available Trims: Technik SE, Technik, S line, Sport, SE
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Advantages: Looks Stylish Disadvantages: Low drag in corners
Audi?s aluminum A8 is a handsome beast. There?s nothing retro or classic about it ? the rounded shape is bang up to date. Despite its soft styling it still looks strong, as a big car should without being overly aggressive. The rear end is square, but the kicked-up flanks look perfect.
Despite being quite light, the 2.8-litre version is certainly no hot rod, with just 174bhp and 185lb ft of torque on offer. The 3.7-litre versions obviously improve substantially on these figures, but add seven and a half grand to the asking price at the same time. The 2.8-litre takes 11 lazy seconds to reach 60mph and the in-gear times are sluggish, too. In the engine?s defence it feels smooth and strong, if not quick-revving. The automatic gearbox is partly to blame. It has no ?sport? mode, and while it swaps ratios smoothly, it often refuses to kick ...
jonlucaz 10.09.2000
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Ciao members have rated this car review on average: helpful Review of Audi A8 2.8
Advantages: excellent build quality, German Precision engineering, great looks, Brilliant Disadvantages: parking spots at Supermarket car parks
about, but no matter how much silver trim and alloy wheels they had they still looked as dull as dishwater. They were both over budget at £8000. I went home with my head spinning.
I spoke to my girlfriend about it and she basically pulled the strangest face when I mentioned the word PASSAT. She basically said that yes it was a bland and dull car and there were too many on the road already and they were as dull as John Major on a cloudy day in greysville!!!!
That decided it, I wasn't going to have a Passat and back to another showroom I went. As I was looking around the selection of bland boring cars I noticed a big 'mean' looking Audi in the Prestige section of this showroom sitting there looking menacing and awsome. It was a AudiA6, 2.5litre V6 Turbo Diesel, 155BHP for the nerdy car people amongst you. In plain english its a big ...
stelladrinker 24.01.2005
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Ciao members have rated this car review on average: very helpful Review of Audi A6 2.5 TDI
this the car was less than a paradigm of virtue. All four tyres were illegal at 10,000 miles, various front and rear suspension components were required to pass its first MoT test (less than 20,000 miles !) and the front discs and pads were changed before 20,000 miles arrived - don't ask about the cost as brakes are excluded from Audi's warranty !
From 20,000 miles to 22,000 miles, the car cost just under £2,000 in service costs - and was just weeks outside its warranty. The attitude of Audi UK was - so what ? The MD of the local chain (Smith Knight Fay) never bothered to reply to letters, could not even manage a phone call, and the local dealer principal was a study in 'used-car-dealership'. He even told me, face to face, that 'If this was my wife's car, I'd be really annoyed at such costs and unreliability' - but then (of course ...
