Audi A8: Autobahn Burner

Audi's flagship cruiser is luxurious and classy without being crass or complicated for complexity's sake. It's a splendid, refined offering even in so competitive a class...

...The A8 is an astonishingly good car, even at the price and given considerable competition from its countrymen. Unless a major competitor provides some techy feature you cannot live without, I'd recommend the A8 over the equivalent BMW or Mercedes, if only as a more self-confident and understated alternative. With the A8, Audi's proved its flagship's worth— not only vis-à-vis the Autobahn legend, inflated or not, but for all roads everywhere...

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