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the Audi s8 aspires to both sport and luxury gonna do both well at almost 17 feet long I've got a lot of cabin room in this 2015 audi s8 for luxury appointments I'm riding on an air suspension I've got adaptive cruise control Bang & Olufsen stereo with 19 speakers and oh yes massage seats but this is the s8 the sport version of Audi's a 8 so I've also got 520 horsepower and torque vectoring now wheel drive it makes this big sedan feel absolutely nimble howdy says zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.9 seconds calling something of this size with a sedan body a sports car would start a bar fight among some car enthusiasts but from the driver's seat I'm feeling that Sports applies the s8 twin turbo four-litre v8 puts out 520 horsepower 481 pound-feet of torque and when I floor it this thing really sleeps forward and it makes a great noise too but it's in the turns when the s8 really shows it's tough the air suspension keeps the car really level the all-wheel drive gets all tires gripping and the torque vectoring actually puts more power to the outside rear wheel in a turn so I can feel the back end of the car be pushed around those corners it really helps the handling incredibly well this dynamic setting is really good but it makes the s8 pretty high-tempered I don't want to drive with it and stop and go traffic so let me dial it back to the comfort setting and by dial I do mean dial this is using Audi's Multimedia Interface or MMI and that suddenly loosens up everything it makes the car just more manageable even with 520 horsepower that that power comes on a lot smoother from the throttle but even with this air suspension I don't think out he really has the ride quality dialed in for the comfort mode on an undulating section of freeway I could feel the car porpoising that's kind of going up and down and was making me a bit seasick but the massage seats go a long way to make up for that for navigation I'm looking at satellite maps from Google Earth brought into the system for a 3d data connection Howdy's newer models have 4G but the s8 hasn't been upgraded yet howdy integrates online destination search here really well I can enter any search term using this rotary controller or tracing letters on the touchpad and it gives me results from Google one problem here when I plug my iPhone into this adapter cable in the console the car tells me I need to turn off Bluetooth before it can connect that's kind of stupid I've been in plenty of other cars that can switch between Bluetooth and a cable connection seamlessly why can't out II this car has the beggin offs an audio option and it sounds great nineteen speakers 1400 watts this is a true audio file system to expand on the comfort and convenience theme this s8 has adaptive cruise control which will automatically slow down for slower traffic ahead it's got a blind spot monitor and that flashes a warning when their cars in the lanes next to me and it's got a surround view camera that makes parking quick and easy I've also got a head-up display but it only shows speed and rudimentary turn guidance Adi could do more with that all right let's price at our 2015 audi s8 base price is 115 thousand eight hundred twenty-five dollars and that's pretty well equipped but the GoSee net style let's have the Bengal Olufsen audio package sixty three hundred dollars and the driver assistance package for only twenty one hundred dollars and we're looking at a total of a hundred twenty four thousand two hundred twenty-five dollars back to the question of sport versus luxury has really impressed with the S eights handling for such a large car on the luxury side of things the ride may not be as smooth as I would have liked but the connected capital echt Ronix the stereo system and those massage seats go a long way to make up for