The Audi A7 Sportback and S8 limousine are the most recent passenger fashions from the German luxurious model to turn out to be unavailable to order in Australia.
Audi Australia has up to date its web site to verify orders for the big five-door liftback and even bigger four-door sedan are actually closed.
Whereas the A7 is on the finish of its lifecycle – it’s understood the newest a6 replaces each the outgoing A6 and A7 – the S8 hasn’t been discontinued globally.
The S8 additionally continues to be provided within the UK, one other main right-hand drive market, in addition to in its house market of Germany.
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ABOVE: Audi A7
Nevertheless, the A8 and S8 household entered manufacturing late in 2017, which suggests they’re near a decade previous now, and but no alternative has been introduced, combustion-powered or in any other case.
“The S8 is not out there in showrooms at this stage,” confirmed an Audi Australia spokesperson.
“Whereas the A8 vary is at the moment unavailable, the Audi Australia crew continually evaluates all fashions out there to us from the manufacturing facility, guaranteeing that we’ve got a broad vary of fashions out there right here to fulfill buyer’s wants.”
The removing of the A7 and S8 from Australian order books comes after the ‘common’ A8 was retired domestically, and orders have been closed for the high-riding A6 allroad wagon, the S6 sports activities then and the S7 Sportback after the 2024 mannequin 12 months.
That leaves Audi’s giant passenger mannequin vary consisting of solely the high-performance RS6 Avant and RS7 Sportbackplus the outgoing A6 sedan and the not too long ago up to date S and RS e-tron GT electrical sedans.
In order for you a big, combustion-powered Audi with out the RS remedy, you now have only one choice: the A6 45 TFSI quattro S line, priced at $124,950 earlier than on-roads.
ABOVE: New-generation Audi A6 (left), outgoing mannequin (proper)
A have a look at Audi’s German web site confirms the outgoing A6 and A7, together with their sportier S and RS variants, are not out there to order.
Audi is changing the outgoing A6 with a new-generation sedan and Avant wagon primarily based on the corporate’s Premium Platform Combustion (PPC), which will probably be complemented by the ELECTRIC A6 E-TRON and A6 AVANT E-TRON primarily based on the Premium Platform Electrical (PPE).
Each of those mannequin strains are already on sale in Europe however Audi has but to formally lock them in for Australian launch.
As an alternative, it says these automobiles are “at the moment underneath analysis for the Australian market”.
“Our product crew are continually evaluating every mannequin line and the particular fashions inside the vary to find out the combo, pricing, and specification for all the pieces we provide right here in Australia,” stated the spokesperson.
Ought to Audi not convey the new-generation A6 to Australia, together with its inevitable hotted-up RS flagship, the not too long ago launched A5/S5 would turn out to be the model’s largest combustion-powered passenger automobile out there in Australia.
ABOVE: Audi S8
The discontinuation of the S8 domestically now leaves Audi with out a mannequin within the so-called ‘Higher Massive’ passenger automobile phase, which additionally accommodates automobiles just like the rival BMW 7 Collection, Lexus LS and Mercedes-Benz S-Classafter 30 years.
Audi delivered simply three S8s within the first half of this 12 months, however even taking a look at full-year gross sales of the A8/S8 in 2024 – when the flagship was nonetheless out there to order – it notched up solely 10 deliveries, down 47.4 per cent on the earlier 12 months and behind the LS (11), S-Class (43) and seven Collection (49).
It isn’t simply the Higher Massive phase from which Audi is withdrawing.
The four-ringed model not presents any coupe or convertible fashions, neither right here nor overseas, following the axing of the R8 r8 supercar and TT sports activities automobile, and the introduction of the new-generation of A5 with none two-door variants.
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