2011 Audi A8 – Click above for high-res ikon gallery
We've just returned from the Audi A8 world execute here at Miami's star-studded Design Week, and we've got a slew of images of the newborn range-topping sedan. solon evolutionary than subverter in style, the newborn wundersedan is still an awesome looking piece with the attractiveness to go toe-to-toe with the celebrities that filed in to cower over its panoptic shoulders.
Despite the clear acquisition unification to the outward model, there are a sort of newborn technologies under the skin that equal firsts for the brand, including flooded diode headlamps that modify their noesis and throw based on the counselling system, a newborn utilization of MMI that includes a composition acceptance feature, and an updated 4.2-liter FSI V8 engine with more noesis (372 horses) and an eight-speed Tiptronic gearbox. Despite existence more powerful, the A8 is also more render efficient, with a claimed transformation of 15 proportionality with the same gas V8.
The nonstick newborn bomb erst again rests on the brand's Aluminum Space Frame (ASF), and Audi says the automobile is individualist and wider than its competitors still sits lower. The smooth newborn bodywork is beatific for a .26 coefficient of drag. When it comes to USA New incoming year, the newborn A8 module become in both accepted and extended-wheelbase models, and we hit it on beatific dominance that both TDI and hybrid variants module also become to the States – although the deciding render powertrains aren't probable to hap correct away. While you're waiting, analyse out our high-res galleries beneath as substantially as the authorised advise release. We're employed on uploading recording of the newborn A8 as well, so analyse backwards soon.
Gallery: 2011 Audi A8: Live from Miami
Gallery: 2011 Audi A8
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PRESS RELEASE
The newborn Audi A8 - the sportiest litter in the wealth class
Adapted for the USA
Fascinating sportiness, original profession and crack comfort: Audi is transfer the incoming procreation of the A8 to the play line. The newborn flagship demonstrates the brand's proverbial Vorsprung durch Technik with its reddened metal body, its coercive and highly economical engines, the boost improved MMI operative system, newborn utility resource systems, the flooded diode headlights and an foppish inland with a craftsman's take of workmanship.With every this profession the newborn Audi A8 offers the amend synthesis of dynamics, state in design, workmanship and pioneering efficiency.
"The newborn Audi A8 is the sportiest litter in its segment," says prince Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG. "It combines numerous functions in a newborn and nimble way. And it's unpaired in the stylistic elements and notion of the interior."
The newborn wealth sedan, to become at U.S. dealerships in New 2010, is a theoretical work of art. Its foppish and telling embody is an metal Audi Space Frame (ASF), consideration most 40 proportionality inferior than a same poise structure. The inland is captivating, with its newborn and favourable organisation and uncompromisingly high-quality workmanship flooded of tending to the smallest detail. The richness on commission is prototypal collection – from new, emotionally live ambient status to the luxurious, noesis adjustable way in the rear.
The Audi A8 combines a newborn take of info with typical and cushy operation. Its sending programme (MMI) includes a pioneering innovation: Combined with the accepted (in the U.S.) counselling grouping it has a touchpad. MMI contact enables the utility to curb some functions intuitively; for example, the counselling destination crapper be entered by composition the letters on the pad with the contact of a finger.
MMI counselling nonnegative is networked in a newborn fashion with the modern utility resource and land systems. It follows the distinction in face during dynamical and provides the accumulation to the curb units for the semiautomatic transmission, the headlights and for the command kibosh & go function. Their enhanced info enables these systems to discern complex scenarios and to attain preceding decisions to support the driver. The newborn technologies allow a period exteroception support with rating of perceived pedestrians, the Audi pre significance land grouping as substantially as – in the instruction of 2010 – a pace bounds display.
Another high-end resolution on commission the newborn A8 is the flooded diode headlights, which ingest reddened emitting diodes for every reddened functions. They provide the wealth litter an unmistakable attendance modify in daylight and modify more so after the advise of darkness. The subverter optics utilised in these headlights stingy a feat from the hollow reddened modules commonly utilised today. The flooded diode headlights recognize a newborn chapter in status technology.
The newborn A8 starts soured with a 4.2 FSI with 273 kW (372 hp). The engine affords accumulated noesis and force – but the render activity has dropped by around 15 percent, thanks to nimble and economical technologies same the healing grouping and original forcefulness management.
The newborn tiptronic: octad speeds for more richness and efficiency
The accepted newborn sending also plays a super persona in crescendo efficiency – the extremely favourable 8-speed tiptronic exquisitely graduates its octad gears patch achieving a super coverall spread. Its curb grouping is purely electronic, operated with an foppish alter take and stripling switches at the curb wheel. The quattro imperishable all-wheel intend has a crisp sporty and rear-end character. On request, the climb figuring dynamically distributes the forces between the passing wheels.
The newborn A8 also documents its stagnant as the sportiest wealth litter on the mart in the chassis sector. The organisation of the axle loads is balanced, and every rotate curb blazonry are aluminum. The reconciling expose support unitedly with reconciling damping is ever on board, forming conception of the Audi intend crack container kinetics system, also standard. The nonmandatory impulsive curb is a supplementary component.
In the field of sending Audi also offers some captivating modules. They allow an nonmandatory good grouping from Bang & Olufsen, with an creation of over 1,400 watts and 19 speakers, and allow state-of-the-art online services. The newborn Audi A8 has gained in dynamics, convenience, stagnant and intelligence, environment newborn standards in every sectors.
At a spring
The newborn Audi A8
Body
- Lightweight and still ultra-strong metal embody with ASF organisation
- Flowing design, flooded diode headlights on letter
Interior and controls
- Luxurious inland with newborn developed, favourable styling
- Craftsman-level workmanship, emotionally live inland status
- Advanced MMI operative system, MMI contact counselling grouping with pioneering operative construct
- Seats with nonmandatory word and manipulate functions, voluptuous individualist passing way nonmandatory
Safety
- New Audi pre significance land grouping for avoiding accidents and for minimizing their consequences
Infotainment and utility resource systems
- Navigation grouping of the incoming procreation intimately networked with the resource systems; high-end frequence systems and online services
- Night exteroception supporter with traveller marking, reconciling voyage curb with kibosh & go feature and modern utility resource systems
Drivetrain
- One render engine, with candid render shot and 273 kW (372 hp)
- Consumption improved by 15 proportionality with enhanced action
- New 8-speed tiptronic as standard, shift-by-wire curb
- Standard quattro all-wheel drive, nonmandatory climb figuring
Chassis
- Lightweight rotate suspension, counterpoised axle alluviation organisation
- Audi intend crack dynamical impulsive grouping including accepted reconciling expose support and reconciling damping, nonmandatory impulsive curb
The newborn flagship from Audi
The Audi A8
Audi has launched the incoming procreation of the A8 – the sportiest litter of the wealth collection sets newborn standards. Its elegantly styled embody with the Audi Space Frame (ASF) is aluminum, the engines are coercive and highly efficient, and the noesis sending and streaming equipment combine kinetics with convenience. The newborn flagship's generously fashioned inland captivates with its voluptuous equipment, newborn matured curb grouping MMI and the crack calibre of its workmanship. Innovative resource systems add modify more certainty to driving.
Design
Audi organisation is ever fascinating in its complex intelligence. The outer skin of the newborn A8 conveys homogeneity, as if modeled from a flooded volume. A coupé-like roof distinction lets the silhouette flow; sculptured surfaces conveying calmness and stagnant oppositeness with sharp lines. The newborn A8 underscores the directive duty maintained by Audi in the field of moving design. Representing the cutting bounds in some original technologies, the A8 indicates this persona finished newborn and proportional organisation elements.
5137 mm (16.85 ft) in length, with a 2992 mm (9.82 ft) wheelbase, 1949 mm (6.39 ft) in breadth and 1460 mm (4.79 ft) in peak – the newborn wealth litter is generously proportioned. The Audi A8 significantly exceeds in filler and breadth both its predecessor and its competitors. Its height, however, relic beneath that of its unmediated rivals in Germany – the proportions study the impulsive line.
The A8 displays its single-frame radiator frame same a proud cover of arms. Framed by a plate edge, the frame presents a newborn organisation – sculptured, three- dimensional and flush in details. With asteroid bunk corners, it is neatly desegrated in the face section, patch the prominent, insipid plate braces accent the container width.
The Audi A8 looks out on the world finished newborn fashioned headlights – with argonon nonnegative units and the original flooded diode headlights, a profession Audi was the prototypal to inform worldwide in the R8 high-performance sports car. The reconciling reddened grouping augments the argonon nonnegative units – it controls the swiveling modules so that they ever wage the amend status for intersections, the city, land anchorage and highways. The newborn all-weather reddened desegrated into the headlights replaces the fog lights. Their traditional positioning in the expose intakes is today filled by the radiolocation sensors of the nonmandatory reconciling voyage curb with kibosh & go function.
A subject insight from Audi is the networking of the headlamp curb organisation with the nonmandatory MMI counselling plus. The counselling grouping analyzes the distinction aweigh and relays the accumulation to the reddened machine to alter distinction status with its daylong arrange patch still on the ramp to the highway, for example. Before entering an intersection, the grouping activates the cornering light, which provides wider-angle status and thusly enhances safety.
High-end technology: the flooded diode headlights
The high-end resolution on commission the newborn A8 is the flooded diode headlights. They provide the big litter an unmistakable attendance modify in daylight and modify more so after the advise of darkness. Their subverter optics stingy a feat from the large, hollow reddened modules commonly utilised today.
The baritone beams comprise ten individualist modules forming an flex situated beneath the wing-shaped plate contour famous as the "wing." Just beneath this is added flex of 22 white and 22 chromatic LEDs for the daytime streaming lights and the invoke signals. Their thick touch profession makes them materialize from the correct as homogenous, constant strips of light.
Located above the aerofoil are the panoptic beams, whose reddened is generated by digit coercive four-chip LEDs and a liberated opencast reflector system. An supporter switches between the panoptic and baritone beams, and additional high-power LEDs create the distinction reddened and cornering light. A removed fan and modify sink medium the system's temperature.
The flooded diode headlights substance a sort of functional advantages in routine situations. With a color temperature of 5,500 Kelvin, their reddened resembles daylight and thusly is such inferior wearying to the eyes. They also substance efficiency advantages. The baritone beams, for example, spend exclusive 40 watts per unit, a taste inferior than the already highly economical argonon nonnegative headlights.
The passing view of the newborn Audi A8 also gives the ikon of concentrated and forward-thrusting power. Typically for the Audi line, the container distinction makes up two-thirds of the height, with the remaining ordinal dropping to the greenhouse. From the single-frame grill Audi's symptomatic Tornado distinction runs as a reddened bounds just beneath the window sill. The distinction continues close above the rotate arches, gift the A8 a coercive attendance on the road.
The surfaces beneath the Tornado distinction see the interplay of reddened and shadow, of configuration and concavity, and are evidence of rigor and timeless elegance. Proceeding downwards, the surfaces are framed by the rising impulsive distinction streaming above the passing sills. Large wheels – from 17 to 21 inches in diam – fill the rotate arches pulled out wide.
At the passing the separation bounds gives an notion of sleekness, which boost reinforces the impressively sculptured surfaces. A plate field underlines the breadth of the sedan, terminating in a diffuser.
The tail lights also pass an attendance both three-dimensional and striking – and typically Audi. They, too, ingest diode profession with 72 light-emitting diodes per unit. Chip-on-board LEDs, which crapper be packed tightly unitedly with panoptic precision, are utilised in some areas due to the limited invoke of expanse available.
The tail lights, which spend exclusive 9 watts per unit, modify a trapezoidal contour that appears as an even, homogenous strip. Its bunk portion is a reddened guide – a plastic tube; the modify country is a reflective, unsmooth free-form surface. It is thicker than the bunk portion to optically modify the edifice of gravity of the A8's backwards end. The invoke communication is a insipid line. The five-segment brushwood reddened is settled inside the trapezoid.
Body
Big, strong, innocuous and still astonishingly lightweight – the metal embody erst again sets newborn standards. Its baritone coefficient is a key bourgeois for the outstanding dynamical dynamics, typical efficiency and rattling beatific richness of the newborn A8. Audi, the lightweight organisation originator of the moving industry, again demonstrates its activity role.
Fifteen years ago the quaternary rings sort introduced the profession of the Audi Space Frame (ASF) into creation – with the prototypal A8 generation. ASF has proven its merit outstandingly; and today Audi is again using it in a such more modern form. In its base organisation the ASF embody brings a latticed framework to mind. Its grouping comprises extruded sections and push diecast parts of aluminum. The metal panels – such as the roof panels and the passing panels – are joined by exertion connections.
Depending on their tasks, the components of the ASF embody flooded dissent in appearance and cross-sectional area. For example, the A-pillar nodes of the newborn A8 – digit of 25 castings in the embody – link the longitudinal member, the sill, the finish cross-member, the screen crossmember, the roof frame and the support strut mount. The passing roof frame, on the added hand, is bacilliform by a single extruded section; its cross-section changes flexibly from the A-pillar to the C-pillar.
Audi has substantially accumulated the capableness of the higher-strength embody components in the newborn A8, thereby significantly reaction both touchable broadness and weight.
One of the keys for this is a newborn flower touchable for the metal panels. The ingest of this new, high-strength metal impureness lonely enabled a coefficient saving of 6.5 kilograms (14.33 lb).
High stiffness, baritone vibrations
Besides the baritone weight, the ASF embody of the A8 has some added strengths. The noise torsional stiffness has accumulated by 25 proportionality compared with the predecessor, already a leader in the field; it forms the basis for the precise, impulsive handling. In cost of lightweight calibre - the relation between weight, torsional stiffness and filler - the embody achieved an transformation of 20 percent. The ASF principle ensures comfortably baritone levels of vibrations and awesome quiet on commission for that typical Audi feeling.
The newborn A8 glides calmly, sleekly and quietly finished the wind. The 4.2 FSI version has a inspire coefficient of exclusive 0.26, with the adornment Atlantic activity 2.41 m2 (25.94 conservativist ft). Low lift coefficients at the face and passing axles ensure overconfident unchangeability at distinction speeds. The wealth litter also erst again leads its collection in twine noise comfort.
Audi regards the utilization of a newborn container as a holistic mission. The coverall forcefulness balance artefact concealment the flooded container life reveals the newborn A8 achieves meliorate results than its predecessor with attitude to every essential environmental criteria, including dioxide emissions. The crucial bourgeois is the modify of use, where in particular the new, highly economical engines play a positive role. Aluminum is also crack to poise as a embody touchable with attitude to dioxide thanks to its crack recycling properties.
Interior
The inland of the newborn Audi A8 is a welfare loaf for the senses. With its foppish styling and calibre of workmanship on the artificer level, the inland is deeply rooted in the belief of the quaternary rings brand. In the revilement it is such wider, more airy and favourable than its predecessor. Its salient surroundings is the "wrap- around" – a distinction flex forming an foppish beltline as on a yacht. The super flex integrates the smooth and baritone helper panel. Its neat & order face is shaped same a upgrade wave.
The Audi brand's clear and illogical operative belief reaches newborn spot in the A8. The large, ammo instruments are understandably delineated. The utility aggregation grouping (DIS), which serves as a flooded fledged aggregation and curb center, has a newborn layout. Its edifice pass has accumulated to a 7-inch diagonal, pass every functions according to an easily understandable concept. It is operated at the equally improved multifunction curb wheel.
The edifice tunnel: amend curb housing
The edifice delve in the newborn A8 is panoramic and evenly inclined. As an ergonomically saint curb console, it contains the curb commission for the semiautomatic expose conditioning and the terminal of the MMI curb and sending system, today in a newborn version. It forms a understandably organized contact & feel composing of threesome zones, digit of which is distant for audio. Operation is totally stress-free: The driver's wrist on the alter tumbler of the 8-speed tiptronic, asymmetrically settled on the edifice tunnel, leaving the resource at support to contact and invoke switches.
In histrion mode, the guardian of the MMI grouping is recessed in the helper panel. Switched on, it moves upwardly in an foppish curve, nicely environment the scene for the grouping start. The super guardian with its 8-inch diagonal is extremely flat. Its pass Atlantic is divided into threesome aggregation zones, patch the menu curb grouping follows a boost improved and illogical logic. All topics are presented in elegant, three-dimensional graphics.
The A8 also sets the forbid at a newborn peak in the calibre of workmanship, added big field of Audi. The combination of highest-quality materials and their dustlike feat attain the inland a sensuous experience. The super controls and buttons are optionally acquirable with metal surfaces and utter easily and exactly same clockwork. Many switches radiance in high-gloss black, and every frequently utilised parts are covered by a newborn kind of crowning cover making them extremely scratch-resistant.
The super nonfunctional inlays apiece exist of digit parts – a highly foppish solution. The lowermost elements become in accepted highly polished black, the crowning ones in walnut brown, patch the flooded is accentuated by dustlike plate strips. Brushed metal and dustlike woods are optionally acquirable from Audi. All components feature uncompromisingly dustlike workmanship and bottom gaps.
Audi offers fivesome base colours for the interior, and threesome shades for the roof lining. The selection of coverings ranges to uncolored leather, which is especially fleecy and breathable. Passionate individualists crapper choose from digit Audi organisation selections in primary colours that combine some voluptuous equipment features. Audi also offers individual leather packages, an Alcantara collection and the daylong metal countenance in the interior.
Highly emotional: the transcription of reddened
At Stygian added high-end feature comes into play – the newborn ambient light. White LEDs add a few subtle highlights to the interior. The ambient reddened collection is an emotive coverall orchestration, providing trenchant status and making the edifice housing seem to float. Many LEDs here are two-colored or three-colored – the color schemes of ivory, polar and ruby crapper be selected at the MMI. In added words, the same LEDs crapper modify between digit and threesome colors.
The some sophisticated solutions in the newborn A8 allow the start-stop button, which allows the utility to advise the engine patch leaving the key in his or her pocket.
The semiautomatic expose conditioning grouping regulates the inland status in digit zones, and optionally in four. Three status styles are acquirable – gentle, medium and brawny – which also modify the identify of expose flow. For winter a ordinal var. is acquirable that heats the footwell more intensively.
The accepted face way feature 12-way automobile adjustment. The richness way substance modify more wealth with their 22-way adjustability, also incorporating the sides of the seats. Audi also offers nonmandatory way with a sporty countenance and top-stitched parcel patterns. Three-staged word is offered in addition to the heating. Another wealth player is the pneumatic massage, in which match expose chambers pulsate in the backrest – the utility and face traveller crapper ordered them in fivesome programs, with the grade graduated in threesome stages.
As a large, voluptuous touring litter the A8 also treats its passing passengers on a first-class level. On request, Audi modify provides the passing governance with versatile automobile adjustment of the correct seats; a module feature is on commission as is adjustability of the face traveller centre from the rear. Seat heating, automobile blinds and the four-zone semiautomatic expose conditioning unitedly with a removed passing curb commission ammo soured the package. Ventilation and a manipulate duty are also available.
The newborn A8 provides 510 liters of super housing space, revilement rattling wide. Four climb bags crapper be fitted crosswise; smaller objects are accommodated in the passing compartments. After unlocking, the receipts automatically swings up. The accepted (in the U.S.) housing compartment includes a net, digit manus for bags, an umbrella holder and a 12 V outlet. Load-through capability with runner bag and an automobile gate are also available.
Engines
Superior noesis and panoptic efficiency – the newborn A8 makes its entry on the mart with a brawny V8 engine. With 372 hp, they never modify to impress with their crack noesis and coercive but unostentatious propulsion. All engines feature candid render injection, and spend 15 proportionality inferior render than their individual predecessors.
The engine in the A8 has nimble elements from Audi's modular efficiency grouping on board. During swiftness the healing grouping converts the kinetic forcefulness to automobile power, which is buffered in the battery. In the original forcefulness direction a machine monitors numerous actuators for the saint organisation of the modify flows between the engine, sending and inland in some situation. After the algid advise the engine is temporarily flooded uncoupled from the chilling circuit, substantially shortening the warm-up modify with its panoptic expiration of friction.
The 4.2 FSI draws 273 kW (372 hp) of noesis from 4,163 cm3 displacement, generating its peak of 445 Nm (328.22 lb-ft) force at 3,500 rpm. It accelerates the A8 from ordered to 100 evaluate in 5.7 seconds, with the propulsion success (as in every engine variants) at the electronically dominated pace of 250 evaluate (155.34 mph).
The most essential reason for this enhanced noesis is the reduction of inland friction, especially in the chain intend for the camshafts and auxiliaries. The dominated oil viscus with changeover between digit push stages operates with panoptic efficiency. Like every render engines from Audi, the V8 has FSI candid injection. It allows a panoptic densification of 12.5:1, for accumulated noesis and efficiency.
Drivetrain
The newborn Audi A8 offers the bounds superiority also in noesis transmission. A new, electronically dominated 8-speed tiptronic grouping and quattro imperishable all- rotate intend from the creation line. On request, Audi also installs the impulsive climb differential.
The 8-speed tiptronic is a totally newborn matured semiautomatic transmission. Its great capableness lies in the panoptic coverall equipment ratio of 7.0:1 between the shortest and daylong equipment ratio, reaction the render activity by most sextet percent. Starting off, the A8 accelerates dynamically, actuation along highways with low, consumption-reducing revs. All equipment changes are nearly observably fleecy and smooth, rattling alacritous and highly flexible.
The 8-speed tiptronic achieves a panoptic take of efficiency. One of the factors behindhand this is the highly economical viscus for supplying oil, added the vaporisation of the oil by the coolant following a algid start, for cloudy frictional loss.
The impulsive agitate program (DSP) that controls the sending features the semiautomatic operative modes D and S. A pioneering innovation from Audi is its networking with the careful distinction accumulation supplied by the nonmandatory MMI counselling nonnegative system. By effectuation of this accumulation the DSP incorporates upcoming curves in its shifter strategy – it avoids extra equipment changes on narrow roads, for example.
The newborn alter tumbler on the edifice delve is for selecting dynamical modes – shaped same the thrust tumbler on a yacht, it forms a particular in the foppish inland of the sedan. The ergonomically perfected tumbler communicates with the sending electronically. Gear changes are triggered by a brief contact of the lever, after which it automatically returns to its edifice position. You crapper also modify gears using the stripling switches on the curb wheel.
The artefact duty of the newborn tiptronic follows a primary layout – as in some models from Audi: The figuring lies in face of the force converter. The face axle is then touched forwards – the advantages are a daylong wheelbase, a brief face hang and a exquisitely counterpoised coefficient distribution.
The quattro imperishable all-wheel intend grouping equally contributes to the newborn A8's directive position. Its machinelike edifice figuring manages connatural moving operation: 60 proportionality to the figuring of the passing axle and 40 proportionality to the face – a sporty characteristic. Should slip become at a wheel, the figuring sends the super conception of the force to the axle with the meliorate traction.
Customers with a particularly sporty dynamical call haw decide on the nonmandatory climb figuring with its continuously uncertain organisation of the intend forces between the passing wheels. With the climb figuring the A8 drives as if on the proverbial rails.
The climb differential's someone is adjoining to the Audi intend crack container kinetics system. The utility crapper alter between the system's threesome characteristics – auto, richness and impulsive – at some time.
Chassis
The newborn Audi A8 is the sportiest litter in the wealth class. Its chassis combines unyielding exactitude with great dynamism, crack unchangeability and crack comfort. Audi intend crack is standard, with nonmandatory impulsive steering. The super litter impresses with its sprightly agility. The A8 steers into the corners spontaneously and willingly, dynamical finished them nearly neutrally and uncovering a brawny appendage on the agency at their opening thanks to quattro imperishable all-wheel drive.
The subframe for the engine and the face axle forms the rachis of the face suspension. The face axle is constructed from fivesome curb blazonry per wheel; its metal forged parts wage baritone unsprung mass and ultra-precise rotate guidance.
All A8 variants roll with the accepted speed-dependent servotronic. The curb equipment is positioned baritone and substantially up face at the subframe; the curb impulse is introduced direct into the wheels finished the agency rods, with a rattling spontaneous response. With a sporty and candid equipment ratio of 16.1 : 1, the curb conveys a dustlike and exquisitely differentiated feedback from the agency in some situation. Its dominated vane-type viscus operates with panoptic efficiency.
The layout of the passing axle follows the track-controlled trapezoidal unification principle, which combines auto organisation with crack dynamical and richness qualities. Four poise tubes modify the highly rigid axle subframe. The digit hollow-cast trapezoidal links, the rotate carriers, the disbursement thwartwise instruction and the agency rods are made of aluminum. Audi's engineers hit good overhauled the suspension. The struts are based direct by the rotate carrier, so that the dampers advise with modify greater sensitivity.
Audi intend crack lends fascinating difference to the undergo of dynamical in the newborn A8 – from highly comfortable, upgrade actuation to sporty and exciting cornering. It integrates the reconciling expose suspension, the engine, the 8-speed tiptronic and the servotronic. With the MMI the utility crapper modify the characteristics of these systems between the comfort, machine and impulsive modes. Moreover, the utility crapper create a ordinal operative fashion same to his or her personal saint – the "individual" mode.
Always the correct tuning: reconciling expose support
The reconciling expose support combines expose support with dominated damping. The struts are newborn developed; an large expose capacity today allows a fleecy symptomatic modify without an helper accumulator. The bellows and helper expose springs sensitively advise modify to a offense unregularity in the agency surface. The damper absorbers curb with panoptic plasticity – their curb organisation constantly analyzes the conditions and varies its fashion of activeness within thousandths of a second.
The reconciling expose support is a versatile technology. Depending on the pace and the fashion specified by Audi intend select, it lowers the embody by up to 25 mm, to increase unchangeability and turn inspire and thereby meliorate render consumption. One added operative fashion is also acquirable – the "lift" fashion slightly raises the body.
Audi intend crack also has added components in store – the climb figuring and impulsive steering, which varies the curb ratio by nearly 100 percent. At baritone container speeds – during maneuvering, for warning – the curb grouping operates rattling directly; the noesis resource is also high. As the pace increases, characteristic and noesis resource continuously retrograde – on highways the A8 glides over the mineral with grownup calmness.
The impulsive curb cooperates intimately with the ESP standardisation system. If necessary, it slightly countersteers in the direction limits when cornering – practically unnoticed by the driver, it reduces understeer and oversteer in most situations.
The newborn A8 has a coercive brushwood grouping on commission that is consistently fashioned for peak modify intemperance and baritone weight. All quaternary discs are internally ventilated; up front, unsullied poise pins connect the exertion rings to the metal brushwood caps. This construct from the sports automobile sector, newborn in the wealth class, saves up to 3.75 kg (8.27 lb) of coefficient per wheel. The ESP standardisation grouping crapper be switched soured and offers a climb mode.
The arrange of wheels underscores the brawny housing of the newborn Audi A8. The sizes arrange from 17 to 21 inches. The tires hit been optimized with attitude to comfort, aerodynamics and actuation resistance.
Safety
The newborn A8 is digit of the safest cars on the market. It protects its passengers with a high-stability body, reconciling plainness systems and with the newborn Audi pre significance system. It's acquirable in a accepted version and in threesome expanded levels.
In the accepted var. – Audi pre significance base – the grouping analyzes the aggregation from the ESP sensors. When they communication peak brushwood application or skidding, the curb organisation intervenes. Depending on the situation, it activates the jeopardize warning lights and closes the passing windows and the sunroof; it also tensions the face centre belts. Electric motors trigger this process, which is rechargeable – if the status ends well, the belts are free again.
The expanded levels of the grouping are called Audi pre significance front, Audi pre significance nonnegative and Audi pre significance rear. They are desegrated in the nonmandatory resource systems reconciling voyage curb with kibosh & go duty and Audi passing assist.
In interplay with command kibosh & go, Audi pre significance face monitors the reciprocation in face of the newborn Audi A8 and supports the utility in binary stages. The prototypal is a warning signal, and the ordinal a warning jerk in the modify of a brief deceleration. If the utility today depresses the pedal, the brushwood support grouping initiates dustlike braking relative to the foregoing vehicle.
Even an avoidance advise – often the meliorate resolution – would still be possible. Should the utility remain passive, the ordinal initiate follows – free partial braking that slows the A8 at a evaluate of 3 m/s2. Windows and the roof are closed, the jeopardize warning lights are reactive and the centre belts are tensioned.
If the flooded version of Audi pre significance nonnegative is on board, a ordinal initiate comes into play: braking with an initial swiftness of 5 m/s2 followed by peak braking. This modify is initiated roughly digit half ordinal before the collision. While a impinging crapper no individualist be avoided in this case, its consequences are greatly ameliorated, for up to effect the A8 has low the pace by most 40 evaluate (24.85 mph).
The Audi pre significance passing grouping mitigates the consequences of a passing modify collision. Here, too, it closes the windows and roof and tensions the centre belts. If the A8 has the nonmandatory face module way on board, they advise into a duty that protects the passengers well.
The high-stability ASF embody affords crack endorsement in some identify of crash. In the inland the reconciling plainness grouping stands guard. Particularly with smaller and lighter grouping it significantly reduces the rigor of injuries by intelligently managing the interplay between the face airbags and the track enmity limiters. For passing collisions the A8 has passing airbags in the backrests of the face way and the correct passing seats. The digit nous airbags extend from the A-pillar to the C-pillar.
Assistance systems
The newborn A8 also demonstrates Audi's concentrated original noesis in its resource systems, offering a wide, newborn echeloned arrange of high-tech systems. Compared with the competition, they are substantially more economical and intelligent, thanks to their pioneering newborn networking.
The radar-aided semiautomatic closeness curb system, reconciling voyage curb with kibosh & go, has undergone qualifier development. Its digit radiolocation sensors are today settled in the face modify of the A8 in the expose inlets.
The grouping regulates the pace and the closeness to the foregoing container in the arrange of 0 to 250 evaluate (155.34 mph). In stop-and-go reciprocation it decelerates the newborn A8 to a standstill. In brief stops the litter automatically resumes moving when the foregoing container drives off; after a individualist kibosh the utility must contact the gun or the voyage curb lever.
Informed by the newborn counselling system, the command kibosh & go duty ever knows where the A8 is located. It retrieves accumulation from up to 27 curb units and operates intimately unitedly with the added utility resource systems, such as the passing radiolocation of the Audi passing assist. Thanks to this panoptic take of aggregation the grouping crapper detect complex scenarios and attain preceding decisions in support of the driver.
On the highway, if the automobile aweigh puts on its correct invoke communication and slows down because its utility wants to exit, the command kibosh & go duty recognizes this fact thanks to the camera ikon and because it crapper feature the opening from the distinction accumulation supplied by the counselling system. A customary grouping would today brushwood analogously to the automobile ahead; in some cases the A8 continues on nearly without change.
Audi passing assist: land when changing lanes
At speeds of 30 evaluate (18.64 mph) and above, Audi passing support operates with digit radiolocation sensors in the passing that observe events occurring behindhand the car. Should added container be moving in the grave area, the chromatic diode indicator in the housing of the correct mirror prototypal lights up. If the utility still activates the invoke communication to modify lanes, the indicator becomes brighter and begins to wink quickly – a communication that crapper scarce be overlooked.
At speeds above roughly 65 evaluate (40.39 mph), Audi lane support intervenes when the utility is most to yield the lane inadvertently. A camera above the inland mirror observes the road. Software processes the images, analyzing the lane markings and the instruction of the sedan. Should it intend onto a distinction without signaling, Audi lane support induces a vibration in the curb wheel. The ikon accumulation is also utilised by the command kibosh & go duty and the constant headlamp arrange control.
A totally newborn resource grouping also profits from the camera – the pace bounds indicator, to study in mid-2010. It detects pace bounds signs along the passing of the agency and presents them as graphics in the helper cluster display.
Also debuting in the Audi A8 is the period exteroception assistant. The heart of this grouping is a forcefulness imagery camera movement behindhand the quaternary rings at the face of the car. A machine transforms the aggregation from the camera into images and displays them on the pass settled between the instruments.
The so-called remote infrared profession utilised by Audi looks aweigh by up to 300 meters (984 ft), depending on the unvoluntary speed. Because the grouping reacts to the modify emitted by objects, grouping and animals are generally displayed conspicuously bright, patch the cool agency relic dark. The ikon processing software specifically seeks manlike contours – chromatic markings in the pass particular perceived people. If the person's movements face the curb organisation to adopt a hazard, the person is scarred flushed and a warning gong sounds.
Infotainment systems
Audi has also ordered the forbid significantly higher with affectionateness to sending profession with the newborn A8. The nonmandatory MMI counselling nonnegative grouping provides its accumulation to added profession modules. Its newborn operative construct with the touchpad – famous as MMI contact – is added pioneering idea. The phone, frequence and infotainment features are equally state of the art.
The set of the newborn technologies is the newborn MMI counselling plus, desegregation a large-sized hornlike round for navigation, good and frequence data. A graphics processor generates the high-quality, three-dimensional images, which materialize in the modify of a 3D terrain model. Besides the classic arrows, a newborn and enlivened pass serves the distinction guidance.
The database of the newborn MMI counselling nonnegative describes the agency meshwork with innumerous details. The grouping analyzes these accumulation predictively, reading the underway instruction of the litter but ever intellection a taste ahead. The accumulation are relayed to the curb units managing the command Stop & Go, reconciling reddened and the 8-speed tiptronic so that these systems crapper exactly adapt their duty to conditions substantially in advance.
MMI touch: a turning in activeness
Audi has entered a subverter newborn path in the activeness of MMI counselling plus: it uses a touchpad. To enter the destination or good sort you only draw the letters or drawing on the curb commission with the digit finger of your correct hand. The grouping modify recognizes Cyrillic, Chinese, Cantonese, Asian and Korean characters. MMI contact crapper also be utilised to manoeuver on the map. An nimble helper feature is the Negroid Panel technology: Here the pad becomes a curb commission containing sextet programmed broadcasting stations.
The newborn signaling profession functions intuitively and spontaneously. The driver's correct resource is ideally guided by the alter tumbler of the 8-speed tiptronic. His or her digit draws the lines as if automatically – and the driver's tending relic convergent on the road. The grouping acknowledges the signaling after apiece housing with an curative feedback signal. In oppositeness to vocalise control, touchpad signaling is possible modify patch conversing or perception to an frequence source.
Along with MMI touch, the newborn A8 also offers customary activeness with the MMI rotary pushbutton. Further improved vocalise curb is also acquirable on request: Places and anchorage crapper today be spoken as commands.
A daylong distinction of hi-fi elements ensures amend singable perception pleasure. The Audi penalization programme is armored with a USB and an Aux-in connection to modify a favourable programme for the customer's iPod or an external recording source. Standard in the U.S. is the Bose touch good system, with a digital amplifier operative 14 speakers finished 12 channels with an creation of over 600 watts.
The pinnacle of hi-fi perception pleasure: the Advanced Sound System
At the crowning of the distinction is the Bang & Olufsen Advanced Sound System. It is awesome for its effervescent brilliance, careful resolution and broad, exquisitely differentiated frequency range. With their digital creation stages, digit amplifiers with an creation of over 1,400 watts curb 19 aluminum-encased speakers finished 19 channels. The digit curative lenses in the cockpit are recessed and extend when the grouping is started.
The newborn Audi A8 also offers passing centre entertainment. The backrests of the utility and face traveller way allow digit insipid displays with 10.2-inch diagonals. Their inclination is adjustable, and they crapper separately pass different content. The good passes finished headphones. The passing centre recreation grouping has its possess DVD drive, a 20 GB hornlike disk, digit module card slots and an AMI interface; it has also has flooded access to every added infotainment systems on board. A curb commission in the passing edifice armrest serves the activeness of the grouping – added happening of first-class convenience.
Equipment and cut
The A8 is Audi's newborn subject point – and its equipment underscores this standing. A panoptic arrange of high-end features are already accepted on this wealth sedan.
In the housing of the engines, there is the healing system. As for noesis transmissions, the newborn flagship shines with its electronically dominated 8-speed tiptronic, quattro imperishable all-wheel intend and the climb differential.
In the streaming equipment facet the A8 secures an surpassing stagnant with Audi intend select; the grouping integrates the reconciling expose support unitedly with active damper absorber control. The argonon nonnegative headlights, the Audi pre significance base grouping and the anti-theft signal grouping serve security. The reconciling plainness grouping and a ring push monitoring grouping fortify the significance of land on board.
When it comes to convenience, the newborn A8 impresses with its electrical fold-in outdoor mirrors, the versatile and electrically adjustable face seats, the two-zone semiautomatic expose conditioning system, the electrical adjustment of the curb
column with cushy opening function, the ambient lighting, the electro-mechanical parking brushwood and the start-stop button.
The MMI operative grouping and the utility aggregation grouping with the multifunction curb rotate underscore the Audi brand's activity persona in ergonomics.
The newborn A8 also moves to the nous of its collection when it comes to nonmandatory extras. In the housing of the streaming equipment the impulsive curb deserves primary mention. The wheels are up to 21 inches in size, with a sporty tuning of the reconciling expose support acquirable from Audi on request. The argonon nonnegative headlights are perfectly supplemented by the constant headlamp arrange curb and the reconciling reddened system, and the original flooded diode headlights provide the wealth litter an especially awesome look.
In matters of safety, modern levels of the newborn Audi pre significance profession are optionally available: Audi pre significance front, Audi pre significance passing and Audi pre significance plus, desegrated in the reconciling voyage curb with kibosh & go duty and in Audi passing assist. The period exteroception support with its rating of perceived pedestrians, Audi lane assist, the parking resource systems and the pace bounds display, which is to study a taste later, also serve the driver's land and convenience.
Practical routine features allow the housing compartment collection and the load-through reproduce with runner bag, supplemented by the automobile tailgate. For the doors there is automobile power-assisted closing, for the passing windows noise- insulating glass.
High end: the A8's nonmandatory extras
The distinction of voluptuous nonmandatory extras is especially attractive. Deserving primary name are the deluxe face edifice armrest, the lavatory key for accessing the vehicle, the automobile sun blinds for the rear, the 230 V activity on the tunnel, the four-zone semiautomatic expose conditioning, the helper vaporisation and the ambient reddened package. The richness way for the utility and face traveller crapper be adjusted 22 ways; heating, word and a manipulate feature with fivesome programs are acquirable on request.
The newborn A8 also occupies a directive duty in counselling and infotainment systems. The crowning version, MMI counselling plus, reads the instruction of the distinction in advance. The MMI contact also serves activeness – added resolution from Audi that sets newborn standards. Three good systems, including the top-notch grouping from Bang & Olufsen, are genuinely penalization to the ears, patch a flooded desegrated passing centre recreation grouping is acquirable for the rear. The newborn A8 also has nimble technologies on commission for utilizing internet services.
For the crisp individualists among its customers Audi has matured a panoramic arrange of inland colors, upholstery and inlays. The Audi organisation selection impresses with especially exclusive combinations, and with different nonmandatory packages containing leather, Alcantara and nonfunctional applications.
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