Audi V8

The Audi V8, Typ 4C, is a four-door full-size luxury sedan that Audi designed, manufactured and marketed in Germany from 1988 to 1993 as the company's flagship. It was the first Audi with a V8 engine and the first to combine quattro all-wheel drive with an automatic transmission, using 3.6 litre and later 4.2 litre engines with a four-speed ZF automatic or a manual gearbox. The body was an enlarged version of the Audi 100 and 200 shell on a stretched platform, with a long-wheelbase version assembled at the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory in Graz. The V8 gave the brand a viable alternative to Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Its competition version won back-to-back Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft driver titles in 1990 and 1991 with Hans-Joachim Stuck and Frank Biela. The Audi A8 replaced it in 1994.