Sunday, December 18, 2011

Audi S8 car impresses with its technical performance.

Audi car company in the automotive world since the distant 1910. For a century, engineers create a model that would be suitable to any car enthusiast. This applies to cars and the cost of the brand, and technical qualities. Creating a flagship, the company's engineers are working on at once and sports versions of each car. That model A8 in the sedan, was his older brother, a sports version of a modification of the S8. The first sports complex model A8 appeared in 1996. But each year, based on the latest achievements of science, engineers at Audi, worked on the improvement of this version of the car. Audi model range in 2010 added a new version of the model S8. All car enthusiasts who are fans of this class of car, you know that the main criteria for this type of cars are endurance and perfect management system. Exactly these qualities has a new version of the S8. This version of the new model S8 2010-equipped gasoline engine with ten cylinders with direct injection, which amounts to 5.2 liters. Motor power at such a volume of 450 horsepower at 7000 rpm. A torque is 540 Nm. Ten-cylinder engine borrowed from a supercar Lamborghini Gallardo, which are taken from only the best technical points. Its top speed S8 2010, which recorded an electronic sensor, is 250 kilometers per hour. A speed of 100 kilometers per hour can be seen on the odometer after 5.1 seconds. Car Audi S8 is equipped with an automatic transmission, manufactured by Audi, called the tiptronic. If we talk about fuel consumption, we can say that car enthusiasts who like to save, will not be able to purchase the car. Because this car on city roads consumes about 19.5 liters of unleaded petrol RON 98 type SuperPlus, at 100 kilometers. And on the highway out of town this figure drops to the level of 9.5 liters. In the mixing cycle of motion the car consumes 13.5 liters per 100 kilometers. If we consider the body of the car Audi S8, it is made of aluminum alloy in accordance with the special modern technology, which reduces the total weight of the car. Body dimensions of this car are pretty impressive size. Length of the model S8 2010 model year is 5062 mm, width 1894 mm, with the height of the car is 1424 mm. Wheelbase of this model is 2944 mm. To date, the main competitors of this car is Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series. However, the car ahead of Audi S8, on one level, their rivals, thanks to the AWD system called quattro. This control system is a fundamental characteristic wheel-drive cars made by Audi. The latest version of a full drive quattro uses a differential, whereby torque is distributed evenly between the axles the vehicle. Gauge front and rear wheels in some way different in size among themselves. Front track is 1620 mm, and rear - 1607 mm.

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