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The 2024 Audi A8 is a big luxury sedan. Shop it against the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7-Series, plus the Genesis G90.
The A8 is a conservative, classy choice. This stealthy big sedan is beautiful inside and comes loaded with tech. We rate it at 6.6 out of 10 on the TCC scale. (Read more about how we rate cars.)
The 2024 A8 sees few changes.
This big sedan wears a decidedly conservative wrapper. Its shield-like grille, high-mounted LED headlights, traditional roofline, and simple taillights can easily be mistaken for Audi’s own A4 and A6 sedans.
Inside, it’s a high-tech masterpiece, with a conservative, low dash festooned with screens—three of them, that is. It’s light on conventional knobs and buttons, but the three screens work well enough after a brief instruction. Lovely trim and materials elevate the feel inside to match the $90,000-plus price tag.
The base A8 uses a 335-hp turbocharged V-8 with mild-hybrid tech, while the S8 goes whole-hog with its 563-hp twin-turbo V-8. No model is slow, but the S8’s 3.8-second run to 60 mph is downright quick. There’s plenty of passing power in reserve, too. Fuel economy is justifiable at 22 mpg combined for the A8. (The S8 rates just 17 mpg combined, however.)
On all, an 8-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters delivers power to all four corners.
The soft suspension in base versions soaks up hefty bumps. S8s are firmer but hardly punishing. Audi offers a predictive air suspension that scans the road ahead and adjusts prior to impacts.
No A8 is truly fun to drive, but they’re polished, refined, and serene in the way we expect a full-size luxury sedan to be.
So too is the cabin, which wears plenty of leather and outfits the front seats with 22-way power adjustment, heating, cooling, and massage. With 44 inches of rear-seat legroom, the second row’s no slouch, either.
The A8 comes with a decent amount of driver-assistance tech, but you’ll have to spend up for adaptive cruise control and additional tech that allows for short spurts of hands-off driving. Cadillac’s Super Cruise will let you go hands-free for longer, however.
How much does the 2024 Audi A8 cost?
The 2024 Audi A8 runs about $90,000 to start. That money buys a lot of luxury sedan for the money, though its options add up. It doesn’t take long to approach the far quicker $121,695 Audi S8.
Where is the 2024 Audi A8 made?
In Germany.
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