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2012 Audi S8

The Surgical Scalpel Of Super Sports Sedans This is less a story about a car than the tale of a 520-horsepower Turbocharged Fuel Stratified Injection (TFSI) V8 engine and the vehicle Audi reengineered to surround it. That's not even our idea: Sven Stockmar, Audi's Global Head of Product Marketing, made a point of standing behind a model of the engine – not the S8 – when he began his presentation. This idea you can call ours: If we found the 2011 A8 "A Plus-Sized S4 with World-Beating Tech," then a single-sentence review of the S8 is [spoiler alert]: "A Plus-Sized S4 with ... Read More

Vital Stats

Engine:
Twin-Turbo 4.0L V8
Power:
520 HP / 479 LB-FT
Transmission:
8-Speed Auto
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