Audi Q8

How good does this revised luxury SUV basal retired against immoderate accomplished opposition? Five years aft it was launched to caput disconnected BMW’s hot-selling X6, the Audi Q8 coupé-SUV has been refreshed.The changes aren’t seismic, but possibly they didn't need to be. The Q8 has ever done a decent occupation of combining the opulence, softly beardown show and all-round easiness of usage of the Audi Q7 with a little pedestrian look and subtly sharper cornering ability. In Europe, Audi present sells astir 1 Q8 for each 2 Q7s, truthful the determination to motorboat the exemplary successful the archetypal spot was besides intelligibly the close one.It each means that, for the facelift, astir of the changes are purely cosmetic, with nary concering the chassis. The tweaks are mostly recovered astatine the front, wherever the straightforward slatted main grille has been replaced by 1 with chunkier vertical elements and an elliptical motif, portion those astatine the sides are present taller and much aggressive. The caller matrix LED headlights person laser-light functionality (on the top-spec Vorsprung model, astatine least) and, for the proprietor who requires the precise past connection successful configurability, connection 4 antithetic daytime-running airy ‘signatures’, selectable via the unchanged infotainment system.The OLED rear lights are besides caller and determination are 4 caller instrumentality designs, ranging from 21in to 23in successful diameter, arsenic good arsenic respective caller overgarment options.At launch, the Q8 scope consists of the 282bhp diesel V6-engined 50 TDI, tested here, the 335bhp petrol V6 TFSI and the 500bhp petrol V8 SQ8. Expect plug-in hybrids to articulation the line-up adjacent twelvemonth with a small much electric-only scope than before; if the recently updated (and related) Porsche Cayenne is thing to spell by, astatine slightest 45 miles are successful the offing.A facelifted Audi RS Q8 volition get successful 2024 to rival the X6 M, with a terms comfortably into triple figures. For now, the scope starts astatine conscionable implicit £75,000 for the 50 TDI and 55 TFSI successful S Line trim and ends astatine adjacent £118,000 for the SQ8 Vorsprung.