UK: Second What Car? green award for Audi A8

The success of the ongoing Audi campaign to optimise economy and emissions has been underlined again this week by a What Car? Green Award for the A8 luxury saloon for the second year in succession.

The A8 2.8 FSI triumphed a second time in the face of even stiffer competition from established premium sector favourites and newly launched challengers vaunting diesel and petrol-electric hybrid power.

It continues to undercut the vast majority of these alternatives on CO2, emits the lowest proportion of harmful oxides of nitrogen in the class and is also free of the particulates generated by diesel combustion, making it the most uncompromising choice for efficiency-aware drivers.

The 6.9 liters/100 km capability offered by the most efficient A8 and the impressively low 199g/km CO2 emissions that are inextricably linked are a direct result of three key factors.

The advanced FSI direct injection technology feeding the 210 PS V6 delivers its fuel with exceptional precision and negligible wastage, the unique-in-class multitronic continuously variable automatic transmission channels the power without the need for a fuel-sapping torque converter and the all-aluminium body construction minimises overall weight to give the two components the best possible conditions in which to perform.

Credits: JRC