How far will Audi stretch to please its customers" It depends: How much cash do they have" One special European customer apparently offered up quite a bounty, inspiring Audi to create an A8L Extended with six doors and six first-class seats. With a huge, 166-inch wheelbase, this veritable limousine is 20.9-feet end-to-end, more than three feet longer than the standard A8L, making for an appropriately stately curbside presence.
We don’t know much else about the well-heeled customer, but we assume that he or she will be spending plenty of time in the rear of the A8L Extended. An additional row of seats makes for six individually adjustable forward-facing thrones, with each wrapped in Valcona leather. The third row also incorporates a cooler, an entertainment screen, and a special center console. A glass panel roof, 7.9-feet long, enhances the feeling of spaciousness while individual sun screens above each row ensure passenger comfort.
Interestingly, this plus-size Audi is not powered by the range-topping W-12 engine, or even the twin-turbo V-8. Instead, the base 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 is under the hood, providing 310 horsepower and 325 lb-ft of torque. Because this mega-sedan weighs a whopping 5330 pounds?nearly 900 pounds more than the standard A8L?acceleration is not exactly brisk, at a claimed 7.1 seconds to 60 mph. But Audi did upgrade the stopping power for the A8L Extended, fitting the high-performance S8?s braking system to make sure all that ...