Audi A8L W12
12-07-2000, 01:37 PM
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Audi A8L W12
<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/AudiWorldPics/2000/audia8w12MOTOR.jpg"></center><p>Amongst the rides unveiled at Paris Auto Show this week past was a certain high-speed luxury sedan with a twelve cylinders beneath the bonnet and four locked circles shining chrome-bright and proud on the big boomers schnoz.
The A8 L 6.0 Quattro shares the same essential bones as the stretched wheelbase A8 L--essentially an aluminum-skinned A8 with an extra 30 centimeters of wheelbase added to the aluminum space frame. The differences do tend to be subtle. An untrained eye could very easily confused the 6.0 Quattro for an A8, A8 L, S8, Eight is Enough, or pieces of eight if he's hallucinating. Audi's new big dog can be distinguished from the pack 6.0's unique by vertical chromed grille bars, unique W12 badges on both front fenders, and a quartet of 18" forged aluminum rollers rolled in 245/55/ZR18 skins cue the viewer that something wicked this way comes.
The 6.0-liter W12 plant actually consists of a pair of VR6 mills banked at a 72-degree angle. Set to fire in three banks of four cylinders each with laced runners turned in towards the central plenum, Volkswagen's "W" configuration is unmistakable for anything else that goes vroom in the night.
Needless to say, this sucker thumps pretty hard for a two-ton land barge. The naturally aspirated plant packs a 420 horse wallop and grunts like a lumberjack. Backed by a five-speed Tiptronic and Quattro AWD, the A8 W12 should hit 60 in a shade under six seconds with 13-second quarter miles.
Like most members of the Volks-Reich that aren't tagged with the Porsche marquee, the big Audi's computer tells the fuel pump to cut it when the speedo tickles 250 kilometers-per-hour. Top speed is anyone's guess, but ponder this: the similarly large and lumpy '94-'96 Chevrolet Impala ran an honest buck-fifty with an LT1 rated at three-quarters the W12's flywheel pony power.
Inside the 6.0 Quattro you'll find much what you'd expect from a high-zoot luxury touring saloon. Yards of Valcona leather, aluminum and Alcantera accents, and electronics cluster including GPS, an LCD television/video unit, and an air conditioning system that modulates output based on the position of the sun. A mobile office interface is also available. No way you could've ordered a Chevy Impala with a mobile office interface. This may be a good thing, come to think of it.
The A8 L 6.0 Quattro shares the same essential bones as the stretched wheelbase A8 L--essentially an aluminum-skinned A8 with an extra 30 centimeters of wheelbase added to the aluminum space frame. The differences do tend to be subtle. An untrained eye could very easily confused the 6.0 Quattro for an A8, A8 L, S8, Eight is Enough, or pieces of eight if he's hallucinating. Audi's new big dog can be distinguished from the pack 6.0's unique by vertical chromed grille bars, unique W12 badges on both front fenders, and a quartet of 18" forged aluminum rollers rolled in 245/55/ZR18 skins cue the viewer that something wicked this way comes.
The 6.0-liter W12 plant actually consists of a pair of VR6 mills banked at a 72-degree angle. Set to fire in three banks of four cylinders each with laced runners turned in towards the central plenum, Volkswagen's "W" configuration is unmistakable for anything else that goes vroom in the night.
Needless to say, this sucker thumps pretty hard for a two-ton land barge. The naturally aspirated plant packs a 420 horse wallop and grunts like a lumberjack. Backed by a five-speed Tiptronic and Quattro AWD, the A8 W12 should hit 60 in a shade under six seconds with 13-second quarter miles.
Like most members of the Volks-Reich that aren't tagged with the Porsche marquee, the big Audi's computer tells the fuel pump to cut it when the speedo tickles 250 kilometers-per-hour. Top speed is anyone's guess, but ponder this: the similarly large and lumpy '94-'96 Chevrolet Impala ran an honest buck-fifty with an LT1 rated at three-quarters the W12's flywheel pony power.
Inside the 6.0 Quattro you'll find much what you'd expect from a high-zoot luxury touring saloon. Yards of Valcona leather, aluminum and Alcantera accents, and electronics cluster including GPS, an LCD television/video unit, and an air conditioning system that modulates output based on the position of the sun. A mobile office interface is also available. No way you could've ordered a Chevy Impala with a mobile office interface. This may be a good thing, come to think of it.
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