NEW 507HP Audi SQ8 Review: Has Audi Done Enough? | 4K

If you like to venture off the beaten track, as I clearly do, and you like vaguely luxurious SUVs and Coupés, your sport of choice, you have the BMW X6, you have the Mercedes GLE Coupé and many others and, in fact , Audi has a horse in this particular race. with this, the Q8 and this is the latest version with better technology and better app appearance apparently, but today we discovered that we have come all the way to beautiful South Africa to take a look at this next generation rival. For the BMW You can also purchase one from a car dealer using a variety of financing options, including leasing.

Check out the link below, they say. Looks aren't everything, that's what they tell me anyway, but in the world of facelifted cars they are absolutely everything, in fact they are the only thing and luckily the Q8 has been updated with a new face, the only problem It is for the untrained eye. It looks exactly the same as before. Fortunately, my eye is trained, so I'll show you some of the finer details first. It still has this mask shape around the front, which is nice if you want your cars to look like Bane from Batman. The only thing is that the master now extends a little more towards the outer edges and has the headlight cleaning mechanism now integrated into the mask.

You also have this chrome effect around the inside of the unique frame, these honeycomb air intakes and these J or L shaped sections that were taken from the new Audi A8 and also a flat Audi grille are different, but to me they look It looks too much like the previous generation car. Fortunately, Audi offers a black package that basically blacks out the entire front end so you can't see it looks exactly the same as before. Now let me talk about these headlights so you can get standard LED or Matrix LED as an option, which basically turns on a high beam without dazzling other drivers as they go. towards you or when you get into this particular car, LED Matrix with lasers and essentially it's a laser spotlight that extends the range of your high beam and you can identify it by looking at the blue ambient light in the car, it looks really smart and, in fact, he speaks. from looking smart it's actually a feature to customize the DRL signature on this car using the buttons inside the vehicle here's number one here's another one and another a pretty clever touch also very useless but I like what Audi has

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there , the car is virtually identical to before when viewed from the side, but it has B-pillars with a new laser-etched model designation and new new colors, including sake gray, chile red and ascari blue and no, this one is white, blue Tomo, you'd think they'd supply their new car at a launch. color, but that would be ridiculous, but you get new wheel designs ranging from 21 to 23.

Here the trunk, yes, you guessed it, is exactly the same as before the 605 L, which is bigger than that of an X6 and smaller than If you get into the GLE Coupe in the back, you get a good amount of space, including ample head and legroom, plus cupholders in a drop-down armrest, two USB ports, independent climate controls and heated seat controls for each rear seat which, by the way, recline quite well and move forward and backward and there is even a blind on the window good for the kids who want to sleep in the shade, okay now for the part rear of the car, which I think is also quite good, mainly because of the new lights if you go for the high spec laser lights, what you get is this very stylish set of OLED lights and by the way, the OLED technology is what that you normally find on computer and phone screens, these are separated by a small black section and the flat Audi. logo The lights themselves are very smart for a couple of reasons: you can customize the DRL signature just like you can with the drls on the front and they also have a proximity sensor built in, so if I back away from the car, in fact, I go into its default mode and if I approach the car, whether on foot or in another vehicle, notice that it actually warns people to back up and away from my new Audi Q8 or I'll do it now.

This is interesting because in Britain we drive too close to each other all the time, so as far as I'm concerned they're going to be there every minute of the day, but it's equally clever and useless since for everyone else you get a new lower bumper a new rear diffuser my favorite part new quad exhaust pipes and they are real yes just for show p Pressure and intimidation works because Audi has heard our pleas don't intimidate anyone by the way let's listen to this, Yeah. that's terrible, what's new from the beginning, well you may not have guessed much on some facelifted cars, they go further than others and Audi hasn't gone very far, but there are a couple of new parts that have some seams contrasting here on the board. stitching on the seats and there is now an inlay option.

Yes, you can choose this particular section right here and on the door card you can choose between carbon, aluminum, silver and wood. This carbon material looks quite attractive and I think it contrasts very well with the piano black on the center section of the dash and on the silver console you also have ambient lights down here that you can choose from. I think four different colors, it's not the most elaborate ambient lighting system in the world, but it looks very good in terms of practicality it's not very impressive the glove box is quite large and has a pencil holder but the rest is not so surprising the compartments The doors are standard but here in the center console there is almost no space, there is only a wireless mobile phone charger and a couple of USB ports and, apart from that, there is not much to highlight about Audi's technology.

I think it could do with a little update and they've updated the software here a bit, for example you now get an extra menu. screen if you swipe left, which gives you sort of a combination of all the settings and options that you'll find when you swipe and it's a little bit easier to find certain things than before and they eventually included the option to install third-party apps, things like Spotify, Tik Tok, The Weather Channel, things that other manufacturers have been doing for years, unfortunately I can't show you any of that because you need to log into an app and Audi hasn't given me the app or the credentials.

To log in, but trust me, it's somewhere in there, obviously, you also get wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Okay, we're going to drive, so at the beginning of this video I might have hinted that I was going to do some off-roading. but let's face it, people who drive the sq8 will drive it in places like these towns and cities and today i'm in a pretty good one, we're in cak town in south africa, new town, old car, the sq8 feels exactly like the sq8 i drove 3 years ago, but that's not a bad thing because it's actually a pretty nice car to drive, especially as a daily car.

First impressions, it's really nice, all controls are well damped, the suspension flows very well on the road, it's pretty quiet. it has double glazing everywhere it is an easy car to drive it also has a really nice sound system in the v sprung version it sounds so yes overall it is nice to drive in new places it can be stressful but driving this in a new place is. It's not stressful at all, there are some pretty nifty driver assistance systems that steer, accelerate and brake the car so you can take the hassle out of it. Blind spot monitoring to prevent you accidentally hitting other cars when changing lanes and the Q8 has a five-star Euro end cap. rating, so if something goes wrong, the people inside should be safe, the people outside, I'm not so sure, but with that being said, it was time to get out of town and head somewhere where we could really put the car through its paces, This is more of a place.

Apparently there are all kinds of creatures around here, there are baboons, zebras and ostriches. We'll keep an eye out in case we come across any of them, but let's get on with the show in terms of engine options, there are three options to choose from in the new 2024. Q8 there's a 50 TDI Diesel and a 55 tfsi petrol, both of which They use a 3L V6, although if you want the extra performance you'll have to go for the SQ8, which is the car I'm in right now. uses a 4L twin turbo V8, makes 5.7 horsepower and 770 nm of torque exactly the same as the previous sq8, but I'm not complaining because it's very fast.

Audi says it will officially do NAA 62 in 4.1 seconds and 155 mph flat out, but when we tested the previous generation car in Germany it maxed out at 165 mph and hit 62 in 3.9 In terms of suspension, that varies depending on the version you choose, if you opt for the standard Q8. the standard adaptive suspension, if you go for the sq8 then you get air suspension and you can definitely feel the difference between the different suspension modes, so I'm in Dynamic right now and the car moves quite a bit, it's very firm, but if you put it on in Comfort it smoothes out quite well, it's actually quite surprising because I use 23 inch wheels and although it's not the most luxurious thing in the world, I'm actually quite surprised at how little it can be, at least in South Africa, in these cases in particular. roads as before, you get all the clever chassis systems that make the sq8 really enjoyable to drive, including rear wheel steering which turns the rear wheels in the opposite direction to the front wheels by 5°, which also helps with city maneuverability for a tighter turning circle.

You get active roll stabilization that forces the outside wheels down to keep the car flat when cornering, and you get a smart rear differential that basically decelerates the inside wheel as you turn into the corner to help it turn in and minimize understeer. everything works very well and is no different to what we experienced in the previous car, it has capable performance in the bz, the mild hybrid technology also has another clever trick up its sleeve as it can help you save gas, so it has a free movement. feature that basically turns off the engine and allows the car to cruise using only its inertia, so apparently it works between 34 and 99 mph if you take off where it will cruise for up to 40 seconds at a time and apparently that has the benefit of saving you.

Half a liter of fuel for every 62 miles you drive works in principle, but in the real world I managed about 17 MP gallons, so it clearly doesn't do much for fuel economy, a bit like if Audi hadn't

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it. a lot for the sq8 as a whole, so what's my verdict on the new SQ Q8? Well, if I'm brutally honest, what Audi has done is slap on some new headlights and pretty much call it a day, but that's the worst of it. thing in the world not necessarily the sq8 has always been lovely to drive, very spacious, decent to look at and ultimately a nice all-rounder if you're looking for a decent coupe SUV that you're never going to take off-road then i definitely consider him