2024 Audi Q8 review - Bold in gold | First Drive | Autocar India

The new Sakhir Gold paint shade is perhaps the most noticeable change on the mildly updated Audi Q8. Nikhil Bhatia runs through what else is new and tells you why the Q8 remains a charmer.

Camerapersons: Abhijeet Kamane, Sharad Vegada
Editor: Rohit Thakur

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[AbhayShingi]

No electric steering adjustment, no ventilated seats, no wireless Android auto and Apple carplay, no air suspension. Audi q8 is a big no no!!!

[repeatrepeatrepeat]

Imagine paying 1cr+ just to have windows xp graphics on the touchscreen. embarrassing.

[noisyboy]

Audi has changed how they name models. Let me explain. So all the even series numbers. A4 A6 A8 will be electric. Q4 Q6 Q8 will be electric. A3 A5 A7 will be petrol (ice) models. This Q8 is one of the old model. Audi has dramatically changed their interiors in New models. Buying this now would be a mistake. Unless they give you some crazy discounts. Steel springs is deal breaker for me. You want the Air suspension for the flying carpet feel. That is the best part. And its missing.

[unmesh]

When will luxury carmakers understand that indians want bang for their buck? Missing out on key features for a 1cr plus car, they really have to rethink their strategy.

[srbtheexplorer]

After Owning a Q7 for 5 long years upgrade to Q8 when lunched in india @2020 and clocked 80K kilometres in these 4 years . Can vouch for this beast any time any road .

[singhsamyak]

Headroom for tall passangers will be an issue as I could see the anchor head touching the roof

[chevvakulasrikanth]

I'll wait for the RSQ8



So that I can watch it's review 😅

[lucassitanggang]

I want Audi to make competitor For BMW XB7 Alpine and Mercedes-Benz Maybach GLS

[vikram]

Great price but a few features are missing.

[Sankarnt]

No word about the rear seat head room. Cant be partial. Same guy, spoke 5min about head room in tata curve😅😅😅

[pumpkineter_]

Why did they've not put wireless carplay or android auto? It's an extremely expensive car, why Audi tryna cut it off for mere few bucks of technology.

[vasistaboddu]

hyundai venue gets wireless android auto!

[happydach]

Priced at more than 1 crore, It has ample power but misses out on key features which is not good 🤪👎.

[chanduramgopalakrishnan]

Its boring if there's no ventilated seats during summer

[sagarkapoor]

Spending 1cr plus and No ventilated seats

[SunitaJogaraju]

Good to see Audi improving in the product portfolio. They were almost lost in the last decade in market place.

Would be better if these luxury cars start coming with some options to choose, like I want ride height adjustment over a sunroof, or adaptive dampers/air suspension as an add-on, option to choose interior colors on dash, seats - even if some of them are charged extra makes one choose what they want.

[vivekgopinathan]

I would choose this for its exclusivity. Lack of air suspension is a sore miss. They could have at least given adaptive dampers

[sovanpati]

No front seat ventilation in a 1.5 CR car. Mind-blowing standards 🔥

[adityamehta]

ADAS is for kids.. true drivers believe in themselves, not some computer!

[GurkiratXSingh]

I'd just buy a Real SUV for this price with 4X4 instead of these psuedo-SUVs. Defender is the way to go at this price point.