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Written by Tom Harrison
Nothing says "I"ve arrived" quite like specifying your brand-new Audi A8 with an extra set of doors. Yep, this is the A8 L Extended, a 6.36 metre-long six-seat, six-door one-off limo that Audi says it"s taken over a year to develop.Indeed, 12 months. Clearly then, adding 1.09m to an A8"s already quite long wheelbase is no easy task. Audi"s engineers lengthened the side sills with extruded aluminium sections and added a load of extra tubing and cross-bracing to the roof to, it claims, make a limo with very nearly the torsional rigidity of a normal long-wheelbase A8. Even though it"s roughly half a Smart Fortwo longer than a Range Rover, at 2.4 Smarts in all. Predictably, inside there is much opulence. Beneath the 2.4-metre panoramic roof (itself nearly the length of a Smart) are six individual seats covered in Audi"s finest Valcona" leather. Third-row passengers, with their own coolbox and infotainment system, are best off.
Date written: 11 Apr 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2915
Nothing says "I"ve arrived" quite like specifying your brand-new Audi A8 with an extra set of doors. Yep, this is the A8 L Extended, a 6.36 metre-long six-seat, six-door one-off limo that Audi says it"s taken over a year to develop.Indeed, 12 months. Clearly then, adding 1.09m to an A8"s already quite long wheelbase is no easy task. Audi"s engineers lengthened the side sills with extruded aluminium sections and added a load of extra tubing and cross-bracing to the roof to, it claims, make a limo with very nearly the torsional rigidity of a normal long-wheelbase A8. Even though it"s roughly half a Smart Fortwo longer than a Range Rover, at 2.4 Smarts in all. Predictably, inside there is much opulence. Beneath the 2.4-metre panoramic roof (itself nearly the length of a Smart) are six individual seats covered in Audi"s finest Valcona" leather. Third-row passengers, with their own coolbox and infotainment system, are best off.
Date written: 11 Apr 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 2915
