Audi will soon be giving its flagship a facelift. The renewed A8 has previously appeared in camouflage costume, but never before have we seen it in this very long form. It seems that Audi is targeting the Mercedes-Maybach S-class with this extra-long version.
The fourth-generation Audi A8, launched in 2017, will soon be given a facelift. It gets a revised front including new headlights. Although Audi has still covered everything with a psychedelic-looking print, the shape of those viewers is already visible. The A8 gets headlights with an extension at the bottom, making the units more in line with those of the Q8 and A3. The rear lights are also being tinkered with, although Audi only seems to adjust the layout of the LED rear lights here. The LED strip that runs over the entire width of the A8 butt will now be interrupted in several places and the light units themselves also have a segmented layout as we now know from other Audis.
Audi A8 L.
Audi currently supplies the A8 in two lengths. The 5.17 meter long regular variant with a wheelbase of 3 meters has the longer A8 L next to it. The A8 L extends over a distance of 5.3 meters, of which 3.13 meters is between the front and rear axle. The wrapped A8 in these photos still looks a lot longer than the A8 L. The rear door of this test sample looks much bigger. It is quite possible that Audi will expand the range of the A8 with the facelift with a version with which the brand is trying to sink its teeth into the Maybach version of the new S-class. The Mercedes-Maybach S-Class is an extra opulent S-Class that, with its length of 5.47 meters, is another 18 centimeters longer than the S-Class Long. At 3.4 meters, the wheelbase of the Maybach S-class is also 18 centimeters longer than that of the S-class Long.
Rumors have been circulating for some time that Audi is bringing back the Horch name. Horch was founded in 1904 and the Audi brand name more or less stemmed from this in the 1920s. Horch ancestor August Horch lost the rights to use his own name and then translated it into Latin into ‘Audi’. In 1928 Audi and Horch were merged with DKW and Wanderer under the name Auto Union. After Auto Union came into the possession of Volkswagen, Daimler-Benz went off with the brand name Horch. Horch has been back in the hands of Audi since the 1980s. More later this year!