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Written by Tom Harrison
It was only a matter of time before Audi decided it wanted a piece of the fantastically pointless coupe-slash-SUV pie and, like BMW and Mercedes-Benz before it, resolved to give us a car that would combine the best (or worst) bits of coupe and SUV. Traditionally, these things aren"t, as their manufacturers would claim, the best of both worlds. Not in our experience, anyway. They"re not as elegant or good to drive as a conventional saloon or coupe, or as useful and good off-road as a proper SUV, yet somehow command higher RRPs than either of them. Because that is apparently what the people want. But, with any luck, the Q8 a car that, you guessed it, "combines the elegance of a four-door luxury coupe and the convenient versatility of an SUV" might change things. Like its competitors, the Q8 is based on the same platform as one of its maker"s conventional family SUVs. This time around, that"d be the Q7 only the Q8 is 66mm shorter (it only has five seats, to the Q7"s erm seven) and 27mm wider, giving it an appropriately bullish stance that"s only amplified by the colossal "singleframe" grille that dominates its front end. The Q8"s rear end doesn"t look as steeply raked as its competitors", nor even that of the concept that previewed it, giving a more conventional (and less insulting) profile than we"re used to or, indeed, were expecting. The consequence is 605 litres of bootspace with the rear seats erected, or 1,755 with them folded flat. That"s broadly on-par with the X6 and GLE but, predictably, quite a long way behind the cavernous Q7.
Date written: 5 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12105
It was only a matter of time before Audi decided it wanted a piece of the fantastically pointless coupe-slash-SUV pie and, like BMW and Mercedes-Benz before it, resolved to give us a car that would combine the best (or worst) bits of coupe and SUV. Traditionally, these things aren"t, as their manufacturers would claim, the best of both worlds. Not in our experience, anyway. They"re not as elegant or good to drive as a conventional saloon or coupe, or as useful and good off-road as a proper SUV, yet somehow command higher RRPs than either of them. Because that is apparently what the people want. But, with any luck, the Q8 a car that, you guessed it, "combines the elegance of a four-door luxury coupe and the convenient versatility of an SUV" might change things. Like its competitors, the Q8 is based on the same platform as one of its maker"s conventional family SUVs. This time around, that"d be the Q7 only the Q8 is 66mm shorter (it only has five seats, to the Q7"s erm seven) and 27mm wider, giving it an appropriately bullish stance that"s only amplified by the colossal "singleframe" grille that dominates its front end. The Q8"s rear end doesn"t look as steeply raked as its competitors", nor even that of the concept that previewed it, giving a more conventional (and less insulting) profile than we"re used to or, indeed, were expecting. The consequence is 605 litres of bootspace with the rear seats erected, or 1,755 with them folded flat. That"s broadly on-par with the X6 and GLE but, predictably, quite a long way behind the cavernous Q7.
Date written: 5 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12105
