Most days at home I see an Audi W12 sport quattro (only around 60 left in the UK).

Do you mean 60 of the A8 W12 quattros remaining in the UK? That surprises me, I don't see very many A8s at all, and the ones I do see are either the V6 petrol or diesel!

Difficult to distinguish an A8 from an A6 at a glance though, and I believe badge delete would have been an option. Though whether or not the type of person who bought a W12 (new) would want to go incognito is another matter ;-)

Either way, the A8 W12 must be common as muck next to a VW Phaeton W12!. Did they sell any in the UK?

Edited by badbusdriver on 23/09/2023 at 15:00

Most days at home I see an Audi W12 sport quattro (only around 60 left in the UK).

Do you mean 60 of the A8 W12 quattros remaining in the UK? That surprises me, I don't see very many A8s at all, and the ones I do see are either the V6 petrol or diesel!

I mean 60 UK RHD D3 A8 W12 sport quattros. They were completely ignored by the UK motoring press. Only about 1400 W12 sport quattros were made, obviously mostly LHD, for around a year, circa 2004, presumably as a sort of stop-gap between the D2 S8 (V8 - of 'Ronin' fame) and D3 S8 (V10 - same power as W12 but less of the effortless torque). None were sold in the USA. There are far more of its more popular long wheelbase limousine cousin, the A8L W12, which was made for many years until 2018 when the W12 option was discontinued. That is obviously heavier, has a softer higher suspension and the ZF6HP-26 box doesn't have the 'sporty' gear ratios of its more nimble cousin- a very different animal.