EXCLUSIVE: New Audi S8-Up close and personal

It looks like the interior is finished very similar to the level of a W12 with the upgraded leather option. High quality leather is used on the upper and lower dash, door window sills etc. Wood trim is gray polished birsh as in other S models. I wonder if there will be a carbon fiber option? Sunshades in the rear doors are power operated as in the W12. No rear seat entertainment system for the spoiled kiddos, however I'd rather have the B&O system anyway. Utrasuede headliner is of course standard. I hope there are other color options for the interior other than black and silver. Don't get me wrong, they look great but have been around forever and it would be nice to see something new. Quad exhaust pipes look great and I love the new wheel style. The front and rear facias look very aggressive but not overdone. Kudos!

Sorry to say, but it looks mildly boring (to me anyway). Products from the M division and AMG looks a lot better in my humble opinion. I think they can have their designer add more excitment to the exterior on their performance variant.

They could have flared the fenders a bit, ala RS4. 500HP is also a better number than 450.

..awesome car. And ten times better looking than the barfy 7 Series.

Very impressive looks, but as I said before, the Audis look derivative of one another. They look too similar to justify buying more than one (except for the Audi fan). Take a look at the first photo, the one with the front view of the car: if you didn't know each model in detail and looked closely, you would not realize that the white sedan in the distance is actually the A6, not the same S8 (i.e. A8 mod) in the foreground.