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Motor Trend reviews: Compare the S8's performance data against the 2013 BMW Alpina B7, 2013 BMW M5 and 2013 Porsche Panamera GTS
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Car and Driver video clip and review: 2013 Audi S8
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Motor Trend clip explains the S8's engine is under-rated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0r6xQJU_4

You forgot the fifth gear video, here let me recap..

"It aint agile, it just feels HEAVY, LAZY, LABORIOUS. I would have expect Audi to make a car which, lets not forget this is an S its ans S8! It should be a bit more sporty. Its NOT dynamic enough! We have MASSES of UNDER-STEER, MASSES of ROLL! It just feels a bit of a BUS, and that's a shame."

You forgot the Audi S8 took 25.1 seconds @ 0.79 g (avg) to finish Motor Trend's Figure Eight course -- that's cornering and more cornering. Yet the BMW M5 -- car that is 40 HP more, 213 lbs lighter, 9 inches shorter -- took longer to complete the same course [25.2 sec @ 0.78 g (avg)].

So imagine what the Fifth Gear presenter Jeremy Plato might have said about the BMW M5. The presenter did not say which of the S8's competitors did not feel heavy, lazy, laborious in comparison (or was he comparing the S8 against the R8?).

You cherry-picked the Fifth Gear presenter's one nitpick about the S8. You forgot to watch what else positive he said about the S8 -- which you can see from 11:40 in this video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYoh1xNTs7w

Based on Motor Trend's testing, this S8 will go faster than the Aston Martin Rapide S, Maserati Quattroporte, Porsche Panamera (except the Turbo S), BMW M5, etc.

Silly fanboy I don't care about those other cars. It could be the fastest car in the world, but it still rolls like a boat, understeers and is no fun to drive unless you like straight lines. I do know Plato drove an M6 convertible same weight as the s8 last week, and was much more positive especially to handling. Anyway In the end all audis, bmw's, and Mercedes cars are overpriced garbage.

Good Lord,

What a bunch of kids.

...Wow -PQ40, you make yourself sound like you absolutely dont know what planet you're on. These are the big players my friend. There's an old saying that goes like this:

"IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN"!!!

PQ40: "I do know Plato drove an M6 convertible same weight as the s8 last week, and was much more positive especially to handling"

- You hypocritically omitted to mention that Jason Plato also criticized the M6 Convertible for understeer: "with the M6, I just wish it did not have this tendency to run wide in certain high-speed corners. There's the understeer, look. Can you hear it." (12:06 in this clip).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fzDOZ3iWi7c

- The Audi S8 and BMW M6 Convertible are significantly different cars. Contrary to what you claim, the two cars are not the same weight: the four-door S8 (4619 lb) 129 pounds heavier than the two-door M6 C (4506 lb). The M6 C (193 x 75.6 x 53.9 in) is 10 in shorter and 4 in lower to the road than the S8 (202.2 x 76.7 x 57.5 in). Yet the 560 HP M6 C is the slower car both in 0 to 60 mph (3.9 sec vs S8's 3.5 sec) and quarter mile (12.3 sec at 115.2 mph vs S8's 11.8 sec @118 mph).

It's silly not to consider that the slower, smaller M6 should have a handling advantage over the faster, bigger S8.

The bigger BMWs have the same problem: Both Motor Trend and Car and Driver criticized the BMW Alpina B7 for similar issues when compared against the S8. Motor Trend: "The B7's problem compared with the S8 is it feels like a large, fast sedan, and the Audi feels, for the most part, like a sports car. The Alpina is too big and floaty... (the S8's) AWD has so much grip you can roll hard into the throttle coming out of any corner, and it just goes... the S8 is adept at everything. Yes, everything. Want to beat a ZL1 in a drag race? Check. Want to hang with an M5 on a country road? Check. Want to chauffeur a double date to the opera in complete comfort? Check. Want to cruise 521 miles on a single tank while your copilot uses the car as a Wi-Fi hot-spot? Check. Our only nits were steering that still suffers from a case of artificiality and a nose-heavy front end prone to mild understeer."

Motor trend considers "prone to mild understeer" as a "nit". Obviously Motor Trend judges the S8's mild understeer to not be anywhere as severe as Plato makes it sound.

"No fun to drive" is something you're deleriously making things up (Plato did not say "it 'rolls like a boat" or "is no fun to drive").

- Motor Trend senior editor Jonny Lieberman: "This car (S8) is fantastic. I am absolutely in love with the S8. Whereas the Alpina (BMW S7) always felt big and heavy on windy twisty roads. Not this one. It shrink wraps around you. It feels like a sports car. And yet it's a 4,600 lb limousine. I've having a hard time overstating how great this car is. It's one of the very best cars I've driven, maybe since we did best driver's car. It is utterly fantastic. It's one of those cars... and if you've ever driven a really good car you know what I'm talking about. After rolling about 10 feet at parking lot speeds, I was struck by the notion, by the feeling, by the sensation that I was driving somethi

- Motor Trend senior editor Jonny Lieberman: "This car (S8) is fantastic. I am absolutely in love with the S8. Whereas the Alpina (BMW S7) always felt big and heavy on windy twisty roads. Not this one. It shrink wraps around you. It feels like a sports car. And yet it's a 4,600 lb limousine. I've having a hard time overstating how great this car is. It's one of the very best cars I've driven, maybe since we did best driver's car. It is utterly fantastic. It's one of those cars... and if you've ever driven a really good car you know what I'm talking about. After rolling about 10 feet at parking lot speeds, I was struck by the notion, by the feeling, by the sensation that I was driving something really special. And it just is. Audi has done such a great job with the S8. I'm just flabbergasted by how good it is..." Go to 9:12 in the clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0r6xQJU_4

- Csaba Csere (former technical director and editor-in-chief of Car and Driver magazine), who said he drove the S8 for several hundred miles, did not mention understeer as a problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672HAOq5678

- Car and Driver: "(the S8) goes from zero to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds, needs just 8.5 seconds to reach 100, and tricks through the quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds at 118 mph. Never mind that the S8 is a 4620-pound car that comfortably seats five. It drives a class or two smaller, as if it's been hit with a shrink ray. At times you would swear it's an A4, except for the better steering feel and an exhaust note as heavy as a San Quentin life sentence... the S8 starts at tens of thousands less than a BMW Alpina B7 or a Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG, cars it outguns both in raw performance and behind-the-wheel enjoyment. Whether driving it like it's the chase car in Ronin or cutting a low profile, the S8 has a mechanical arsenal that allows it to run with almost anything on the road. There's no four-door more nefarious."

How much more fun does it get driving this S8 "like it's the chase car in Ronin"? Goodness, go drive the S8 before you comment.

Wow spaz way to write a book lol....really wish I cared enough to read your fanboy rant, but i don't! Typical Audi fanboy..WAY too much time on your hands. Glad your smitten with a rebadged VW.

"It aint agile, it just feels HEAVY, LAZY, LABORIOUS. I would have expect Audi to make a car which, lets not forget this is an S its ans S8! It should be a bit more sporty. Its NOT dynamic enough! We have MASSES of UNDER-STEER, MASSES of ROLL! It just feels a bit of a BUS, and that's a shame" direct quote.... It's like poetry really.

Well VW owns and controls all those companies so technically the are all VW's. : ) Also I wasn't making any point, just posting plates reaction the the S8's heavy understeer and body roll, typical of most audis. Funny you have an issue with my one quote, but no problem with his 2000 word copy and past pro Audi rant. Could you be fanboy too? Audi fanboys are too much.. How dare some someone say something negative about our beloved Audi!!!! Lol too funny.

It may drive like Tyra Banks strutting down the runway, but it looks like Oprah Winfrey chowing on chicken. No, thanks.

PQ40: It doesn't matter to me that you keep reading everything I write and then pretend you didn't, lol. What matters is that I used facts to question your dubious opinions, which came entirely from cherrypicking the only nits of only ONE reviewer's opinion -- which was otherwise positive -- and it is obvious you haven't checked the views of other reviewers. Even better, go drive the S8 before blurting your opinions based on one reviewer who also nitpicked the M6 for understeer.

Your only source Jason Plato's hyperbolic views are contradicted by other reviewers (see below and above). So what could have caused Plato's views, other than cheap sensationalism to excite viewers like you? It seems possible that Plato drove the S8 at its limits on the track without setting the Audi's 'drive select' system' to 'dynamic' mode. The dynamic mode sets the S8's adaptive air suspension to lower the ride height by 10 mm or 0.4 in (which lowers the centre of gravity and increases directional stability) and makes the suspension damping sportier and firmer (which gives higher resistance to body roll and pitch). Dynamic setting also makes the power steering more weightier, the transmission shifts quicker, the throttle more responsive and sport differential more active. In practice, driving the car in dynamic mode does reduce the perception of understeer and body roll when the car is driven at its limits (though its dynamic level is clearly not at 'RS8' levels, as it was aimed at the type of customers who can afford to buy this car).

Popular Mechanics: "But in Dynamic mode, everything is synched, and the S8 is really fun to dive into the corners, pile on tons of throttle, and feel the twin-turbo pull you through. Once you get the S8 into a rhythm, its excess size and heft seem to melt away."

Robb Report: "the big Audi is a true driver’s car."

Autoblog: "we ran the S8 hard around the Circuito de Navarra, a 2.44-mile track near Pamplona, Spain with a compelling combination of curves and altitude changes... With all of the individual driver settings turned to Dynamic, the variable rate, sport-tuned adaptive air suspension keeps the body lively, quick jinks at speed never give you the willies, and around the high-speed curves you aren't overcome by the sensation of trying to swing an anvil. Just as much credit for that goes to the Quattro all-wheel drive, its self-locking center diff and sport rear diff, 40/60 front-to-rear power split and torque vectoring. The Quattro system and brake application will pivot the car around like the ticking of a second-hand on a watch if velocity and understeer are getting the best of you.... This is the car The Transporter should be driving... Out on the roads, especially the N111 and lonely country roads that hook long straights together with tight turns around towns like Sansol and Bargota and Armananzas, the S8 is a lot of fun.... You ask more from a car when driving strange roads than you do on a track because your tim

Autoblog: "(continued)... You ask more from a car when driving strange roads than you do on a track because your timing is dependent on figuring out what's ahead, then when you do figure it out you want the car to respond immediately for more power or less speed. The S8 is quick to deliver, and the confidence in the suspension won't let you down, allowing you to focus on other inputs."

Motor Trend (Scott Evans): "What's truly remarkable is how the S8 drives. There are cars that seem to shrink around you when driven hard and cars that don't; the S8 is the former. Every time you drive this car quickly, you get out and gape at the size of it. It simply shouldn't do what it does... it was unflappable on the road. Grip in corners is unshakeable, and the all-wheel drive allows you to roll hard into the throttle early and rocket out. We couldn't screw up a corner bad enough to get understeer on the road... Its grip is all the more impressive considering the power... Coming out of a corner, the transmission doesn't bother to downshift because it doesn't need to. It simply digs into that deep pile of torque and shoots you out with the soft grumble of a distant jet engine."

"It aint agile, it just feels HEAVY, LAZY, LABORIOUS. I would have expect Audi to make a car which, lets not forget this is an S its ans S8! It should be a bit more sporty. Its NOT dynamic enough! We have MASSES of UNDER-STEER, MASSES of ROLL! It just feels a bit of a BUS, and that's a shame" direct quote.... It's like poetry really.

Isn't his like 001's 4th review of an Audi on a San Diego news channel?

No question Autospies receives so form ad money, or incentive of some sort from Audi. I actually wonder what VW/Audi's US marketing expense is annually? I have never seen so many adds for a brand that sells such low number in the US. I guess if you flash anything in front of people enough you can convince them of anything..Just seems like overkill to me.

94geo: Your insinuation that 001’s views are influenced by money from Audi is wild speculation. It’s more rational to conclude that 001 is simply being honest and considered – after all, his choices are echoed even in several German car magazines and car shows. Audi’s increased sales cannot be explained by advertising alone: save for the diehards stuck in what things were like ten years in the past, more and more analysts and buyers are realizing that several Audis are the rational and intelligent choice in their segments. Eventually the US market will catch up with the rest of the world in this realization. [Audi the company is growing at a faster pace and is relatively more profitable (as a percentage of revenues) than BMW and Mercedes, so of course Audi has more money to spend on advertising.]

Wall Street Journal: “Audi Races for Luxury Crown... World-wide, Audi's sales through the first two months of 2013 are up nearly 10% to 221,800 cars -- 400 short of BMW-brand car sales. Some of Audi's biggest growth is coming from the U.S., where sales have climbed 17% so far this year and its share of the luxury-import car market has nearly doubled to 10.1% from 5.8% in 2006... Like Ed Wirtz, a 46-year-old Los Angeles-area insurance and investment adviser, many customers have flocked to Audi's "new luxury" image. A longtime BMW loyalist, Mr. Wirtz instead bought an Audi S8 high-performance sedan a couple of weeks ago, drawn to its sporty look and feel despite its large size. Though still a BMW fan, "it just seems like it's been around so much longer; it's starting to feel the same," he said. Audis, on the other hand, "now look faster, sleeker," he added. "It looks like they're going after a younger market, a younger executive." “
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