Audi sits in the luxury catbird seat for 2005: A new Mercedes S-Class is more than a year away, and the BMW 7 Series suffers the controversy of its styling and iDrive. This fall, a 450-horsepower, 6.0 ...

After 17 years on the market, Audi has sounded the death knell on the A8 W12. Audi R&D honcho Peter Mertens — the same exec who suggested the end of the R8 — told Car and Driver at the Geneva Motor ...

Unlike the BMW 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which trace their roots back to the BMW New Six of 1968 and the Mercedes-Benz W180 and W128 "Ponton" of 1954, the direct bloodline of the large and ...

Does any car speak more to the craziness of the used-to-be than an Audi A8 powered by a 6.0-litre W12? Sure, the engine also featured in the Volkswagen Phaeton - but the Phaeton was itself a Ferdinand ...

All A8 models are built with the innovative third-generation Audi Space Frame (ASF). The process uses laser-MIG hybrid-welded aluminum "castings, profiles, and panels" to replace steel as the primary ...