FIRST DRIVE | The 2020 Audi RS Q8 is swift, belligerent and bellowing

Hoped you liked those Urus sales, Lamborghini, because Audi might take some of them off you with the new RS Q8 mega crossover. Picture: SUPPLIED

Enormous power and torque reserves, a mega-tech chassis and suspension and a sumptuous interior lead the way, but those looks won’t be for everybody. Picture: SUPPLIEDWhere the SQ7 goes down the tech path of an electric compressor to spin the engine up faster at low revs, the RS Q8 uses a 48V mild-hybrid boosting system to help its 4.0The thing is, there is an alternative that is just as fast, but handles better, uses less fuel than the 12.1/100km combined claim and is every bit as practical.

The ride height can change across a 90mm range, which Audi insists gives it off-road ability. On 35-profile tyres ... It lets you personalise two of the driving modes and toggle through them on the steering wheel instead. There’s an obvious question there, and the answer is that the start-stop can shut things down at even 22km/h and if the lights turn green, the camera tells the computer when the car in front has started moving, just so it can refire the engine. Cool, huh?They’re buying it for the burbling start-up noise, the brilliance of the acceleration, from any speed, the off-beat roar of the thing at full throttle, the lazy overtaking ability and the snappy lift-off crackles and pops.

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