With the Audi Summit less than a week away in sunny
Barcelona, the German automaker has decided to shine more light on its upcoming
A8 flagship. Unlike with most luxury cars in this segment, Audi haven't exactly
done a great job at keeping the A8 away from the spotlight. Naturally, it's all
by design since the car is already on its way to becoming a movie star.
The all-new Audi
A8 is featured in Marvel's latest blockbuster movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming,
and has already been teased heavily in multiple official videos. Aside from offering a better look at the car, it's nothing
we haven't already seen or deducted. The two Prologue-esque profile lines are
quite visible though, whereas the LED's out front look pretty sharp.
That being said, let's round up what we know so far
about Ingolstadt's new Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7-Series rival. One of the
first things they confirmed, officially, was that the A8 will come with 48-volt
mild hybrid powertrains as standard across its range, which ultimately reduces
the car's fuel consumption by up to 0.7l/100km (0.2 mpg US).
They followed that up by showing us just how easily
the car can park itself with the help of the Audi AI Remote Parking Pilot. In
the video, which you can watch here, the driver exists the car and the A8 does
a 180 and reverses itself into the garage.
Then came all the Spider-Man stuff with Tom Holland
and comedian J.B. Smoove enjoying some of the car's active safety tech during a
driving test, followed by the web slinger going to his own movie premiere on
the hood of the 2018 Audi A8.