It was inevitable that a tuning company would eventually roll out a few upgrades for the new generation Audi A8, and one of the first to have done it is ABT Sportsline. The German firm ...

ABT’s latest encounter with the new-gen A8 has endowed Audi’s flagship saloon with some modest updates. That’s meant as a compliment, because there isn’t much that one can do to such a ...

More tuning for the Audi A8: Abt Sportsline now also offers a front spoiler lip to round off the extensive product range for the A8 that includes extravagant Abt wheels, an exhaust system with ...

You might agree that this is one of Abt’s more discreet efforts and if you’re in the market for a hotter A8, you may well be better off waiting for Audi’s in-house job - the incoming S8.

ABT freely admits that the new A8 is pretty sporty on its own. Therefore, the AS8 package seeks to "underline" what Audi's already done in terms of huge, sporting luxo-bargeness.

Back to that engine. Audi's twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 is already a beast of a motor. It does duty in the company's RS7 and S7, RS6 and S6, and the A8 and S8. Along with ABT's 730 horses, drivers get ...