The Audi V8 is a 4-door saloon (sedan) from Audi, built from 1988 to 1993, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Under the bonnet: 3.6 . Erwin Leo Himmel (1984) drew it.
The background
The Audi V8 (Typ 4C) is a four-door, full-size luxury sedan, designed, manufactured and marketed by Audi in Germany from 1988 to 1993, as the company's flagship. As the first car from Audi to use a V8 engine, it also was the first Audi to combine a quattro system with an automatic transmission. Early cars used 3.6-litre V8s, while later cars featured a 4.2-litre version of the engine.
The Audi V8 was replaced by the Audi A8 in 1994, although the A8 was not marketed in North America until 1996. The competition model of the Audi V8 won back-to-back Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft driver's titles in 1990 and 1991, with the championship winners being Hans-Joachim Stuck and Frank Biela respectively. Audi was the first company to win back-to-back DTM titles.
The engineering
Power comes from 3.6 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 3.6: 1710 kg. It shifts through a 4-speed ZF 4HP24A automatic / 5-speed manual (3.6 V8) / 6-speed manual (4.2 V8). The wheelbase is SWB: 2702 mm / LWB: 3020 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Audi A8; assembly was at Neckarsulm, Germany. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the BMW 5 Series, the Lexus LS, the Ferrari F40 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Audi stablemates include the Audi 200 and the Audi 225.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Audi V8 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.