GENEVA MOTOR SHOW
Audi injects more performance into its Q8
Just months after the Audi Q8 was revealed, Audi has shown its first performance version writes Michael Taylor
Three months ago, Audi was still denying the existence of a Q8 SUV — and now it has two of them. The hybrid-powered star of the Geneva motor show follows up the Q8 concept from January’s Detroit show and pulls its technology into an impressively practical, tantalisingly close concept car. The 5,020mm-long Q8 Sport is a blatant preview of Audi’s impending Q8 five-door, full-sized SUV — and so is its plug-in hybrid powertrain. Boasting up to 1,200km of range, the 350kW powertrain is claimed to be able to push the concept to 100km/h in an impressively brief 4.7 seconds. The Q8 will use this powertrain, which combines an 85l fuel tank and a relatively tiny 0.9kWh lithium-ion battery, as its flagship model when it reaches production in 2018. The concept car for Geneva was expected to be called the RS Q8 but Audi changed its mind at the last minute and even the production versions will be badged SQ8. The petrol-electric powertrain is definitely also on its way into future versions of the ...
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