Top 10 Most Powerful Audi Models of All Time

Do you know which are the top ten most powerful Audis of all? And do you know which Audi makes the most horsepower of all?

Here’s an interesting one. We all know that Audi builds — and has always built some insanely powerful cars. But which are the top ten most powerful Audis of them all? And which one of them produces that all-important most horsepower of the lot?

Well, in an effort to settle any argument at your next barbecue, we spent some time delving through data. We searched out Audi’s most powerful cars, based on Audi quoted figures, so no tuners or private dyno data.

So, can you guess which Audis are on the list? And which is the strongest of the lot? So, place your bets, click through them one by one starting here with number ten. You’ll soon know the pecking order of the most powerful engines of all to carry those four Audi rings…

10: 2008 Audi Q7 V12 TDI — 500 hp

Tenth on the list of most powerful Audis of all time is the 500hp 2008 Q7 V12 TDI. It’s the only diesel to feature. It is also the torquiest Audi of all at 738 lb-ft (which translates to 1000Nm in the metric system) from 1750 to 3250 rpm. Q7 V12 TDI makes peak power at a diesel-low 3750rpm. The flagship Q7 remains the world’s only ever V12 turbodiesel engine in a production passenger car. The 500 hp V12 diesel Q7 is good for 0-60 mph in 5.4 seconds.

Michele Lupini

Once a handy engine and chassis tuner, and a combative racer and rally driver, Michele took up the pen to express his passion for cars, racing and motoring over 30 years ago. He published South Africa’s go-to enthusiast motor magazines Cars in Action and Bakkie — some say against all odds — for a quarter century. In that time, Michele had a hand in nurturing many of South Africa's motoring media leaders. Today Michele keeps himself busy with his a range of intrnational motoring media duties alongside his own theauto.page. And a little racing on the side.