2025 Audi SQ8 Ultra Luxury Sport Coupe

If your tastes run toward the strong and silent types, the Audi SQ8 is the SUV for you. Not that its 500-hp twin-turbo V-8 engine is particularly quiet when called upon—the SQ8 uses a slightly detuned version of the powertrain in the extroverted Lamborghini Urus—but the SQ8 has the whole heavyweight-boxer-in-an-Armani-suit vibe down to a science. The exterior bodywork is cut tight and orderly but features some subtle sporty touches, including unique grille and air-intake surrounds not found on its standard Q8 SUV sibling. The SQ8's chassis is also more athletic, and it can cut and run when called upon without breaking a sweat, even remaining within a few tenths of its Italian counterpart in C/D acceleration testing. But the SQ8 isn't in fight mode 24/7, and the luxury-lined cabin delivers genuine comfort when driven less aggressively. Like its Q8 brother, the SQ8 is strictly a two-row offering, and shoppers who are enamored with the Audi aesthetic but require a third row are advised to check out the slightly more spacious—yet less expensive—SQ7 SUV

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