The Audi Q8 is a 5-door coupe SUV from Audi, built from 2018, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Sascha Heyde and Maurício Monteiro Dos Santos under Marc Lichte drew it.
How it came about
The Audi Q8 is a mid-size luxury crossover SUV made by Audi that was launched in 2018. It is being produced at the Volkswagen Bratislava Plant.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 2145 kg. It shifts through a 8-speed Tiptronic automatic (ZF 8HP). The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 2995 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Bratislava (Volkswagen Bratislava Plant), Slovakia. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tesla Model 3, the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y — show what else the money bought that year. Its Audi stablemates include the Audi 200 and the Audi 225.
What it costs now
The money question first: $35,700–$86,500 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $4,345–$6,212 a year. Insurance sits around $2,410–$4,490 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.