Audi is introducing a new, one-of-a-kind version - the Audi A8 L Security. The lengthy-wheelbase excessive-safety model of the A8 meets the strictest pointers in pressure for civilian vehicles, with a bunch of unique safety capabilities to be had further to its heavy armoring. At income release Audi will provide the W12 engine, with every other unit to comply with in 2012. Both engines integrate advanced energy with excessive efficiency.
Body
At five.27 meters (17.29 ft) in duration, the Audi A8 L Security is a huge, consultant luxurious sedan, rarely distinguishable to the attention from the manufacturing model. The LED headlights, which use mild-emitting diodes for all functions, lend a placing expression to its the front. They are a part of the usual bundle withinside the Audi A8 L Security W12.
When growing the simple layout for the A8 version line, Audi engineers already had the excessive-safety model in thoughts from the very outset. The end result is a completely included idea a long way advanced to any retrofit answer presently to be had at the market. All of the most important additives had been analyzed with reference to their deformation properties, giving the Audi A8 L Security an brilliant crash overall performance this is additionally aware of the opposite celebration involved.
The armored sedan's custom safety adjustments are completed with the aid of using hand in a small, well-guarded workshop - on a manufacturing ground with in particular secured doors, in which using mobile telephones is precisely prohibited. The foundation for the excessive-safety vehicle is a formerly changed aluminum manufacturing frame built on the Neckarsulm plant as in step with the Audi Space Frame (ASF) principle. Specially educated technicians installed more or less 450 hours of labor to include the safety capabilities - withinside the uncompromisingly excessive excellent Audi is understood for. When this degree of the technique is complete, the automobile returns to the manufacturing facility for very last assembly.
The Audi A8 L Security has been formally licensed with the aid of using a German-authorities ballistics checking out facility in Munich for compliance with the magnificence VR 7 ballistic safety general (examined as in step with BRV 2009 pointers). The abbreviation BRV stands for Bullet Resistant Vehicles. The vehicle's resistance to explosions turned into examined as in step with ERV 2010 pointers (ERV = Explosion Resistant Vehicles). Class VR 7 ballistic safety imposes the strictest requirements on civilian excessive-safety sedans. The sheet metallic and glazing withinside the passenger mobile have to resist firing with NATO difficult-center ammunition. In positive areas, the armoring at the Audi A8 L Security even complies with the standards for sophistication VR nine and VR 10.
Integrated as a unitized issue of the frame, the excessive-safety sedan's protection mobile capabilities a convergence of extraordinarily tough, resistant substances - hot-shaped armored metal, aramide fabric, ceramics, unique alloyed aluminum and multilayer glass. Overlapping defensive substances on the joints offer the maximum stage of safety at some point of the occupant mobile. The indoors armoring weighs about 720 kilograms (1,587.33 lb).
The aluminum facet sills have strong metal sections constructed in. These offer expanded safety towards explosive weapons - a place that has visible a marked stiffening of necessities in current years. Made of an modern aluminum alloy, the automobile's armored ground serves the equal purpose. The Audi A8 L Security is able to withstanding an assault with a navy hand grenade.
Even an explosive rate described from the check application does now no longer pose a deadly hazard to passengers, as confirmed with the aid of using measurements taken at some point of checking out on dummies.
The facet home windows, windshield and rear window are all fabricated from unique glass with a polycarbonate coating withinside the interior to save you spalling. Optional electromechanical window openers function the facet home windows, permitting them to be decreased almost all of the manner. The extra weight of the home windows quantities to simply over three hundred kilograms (661.39 lb). A last help characteristic comes general for the doors - which weigh an extra 360 kilograms (793.sixty six lb) altogether. A door-forestall characteristic holds every door open in any favored position.
A key region withinside the Audi A8 L Security is the "verbal exchange container" withinside the baggage compartment. In addition to the manage devices for the car and communications electronics, it holds the elective additives that similarly beautify the passengers' protection, at the side of the extra battery. The closely armored verbal exchange container is novel in every other manner: It has relatively mild ceramic doors, and its frames are fabricated from aluminum. Customers also can request unique safety for the battery and the gas tank.
A general -manner verbal exchange gadget lets in passengers withinside the Audi A8 L Security to speak with the out of doors international while the home windows are closed. The gadget uses a speaker withinside the single-body grille in addition to microphones for the cabin and exterior.
Despite the excessive stage of safety it gives, the Audi A8 L Security is a tremendously mild armored vehicle. As is usually the case in an Audi, the light-weight layout performs a vital position here. Outfitted with the W12 engine, the Audi A8 L Security is the lightest car amongst its peers.
High-safety capabilities
For Audi A8 L Security clients, a mess of unique alternatives are to be had for improved safety. Among those is the emergency go out gadget, a era patented with the aid of using Audi. When the motive force or rear passenger presses a tamperproof transfer and pulls one of the interior door handles, pyrotechnical keeping apart screws withinside the hinges detach the door from the frame. The door can then be knocked out with a moderate push.
Another safety characteristic is the hearthplace extinguisher gadget, that's activated thru warmness sensors or with the aid of using pushing a button. The extinguishing agent flows from canisters hooked up withinside the baggage compartment via tubes going for walks alongside the underfloor. Nozzles spray the agent into the wheel arches, onto the underfloor, onto the tank, and into the engine compartment.
The emergency sparkling-air gadget operates with oxygen cartridges housed withinside the blanketed region. At the rush of a button, the gadget components sparkling respiratory air to the indoors thru vents withinside the roof lining. The deliver lasts lengthy sufficient for the automobile to byskip via a threat region or get out of a threat region it's far presently in. The gadget works with the aid of using producing nice strain withinside the car indoors to save you poisonous gases from penetrating the cabin. Yet every other choice is what Audi calls safety start - a characteristic that lets in the motive force to begin the engine remotely thru a radio signal.
Numerous extra answers spherical out the offering: a smoke extractor for the passenger compartment, an LED signaling gadget for convoy travel, flashing lights, a siren, a coaching for expert cellular radio structures, a flag holder, a completely hooked up phone, an twist of fate facts recorder, an extra rearview digital digicam and a heated windshield plus partly heated facet home windows. Going past all of this, Audi will even make certain clients' unique requests are sorted an person foundation.
Interior
The indoors of the Audi A8 L Security is captivating, with its spacious layout and workmanship on a craftsman's stage. The consolation on board is first magnificence - the usual bundle consists of a 4-region weather manage gadget with an ionizer to freshen the air, electric powered rear blinds, the sonorous Bose surround sound gadget and a TV tuner. In the rear are person, seats with energy adjustment. Also presenting a flexible adjustment variety, the the front consolation seats provide heating in addition to elective rubdown and air flow functions. In addition, the Audi A8 L W12 Security comes with a general full-leather-based bundle.
Assistance and multimedia structures
For the excessive-safety model of the A8 L, Audi gives honestly the whole gamut of superior technology to be had for the manufacturing model. The general MMI Navigation plus gadget works with a huge difficult disk, a excessive-decision eight-inch screen and a quick 3-D portraits processor. Its groundbreaking characteristic, however, is the touchpad - the MMI touch. It offers the motive force intuitive manage of many functions. The navigation destination, for example, may be entered with the aid of using tracing the letters at the pad with a finger.
MMI navigation plus is tightly included with the help and protection structures withinside the Audi A8 L Security. It reads the street beforehand and offers the facts to the manage devices for the automated transmission, the headlights and the elective adaptive cruise manage with forestall & pass characteristic. With their expanded intelligence, those structures can understand complicated eventualities and predictively help the motive force.
The Audi pre experience protection gadget can lessen the severity of injuries and their results in lots of cases. The Audi A8 L Security comes geared up with the pre experience simple model of the gadget, blended with the pre experience rear characteristic, that's coupled with the Audi facet help lane-converting gadget. Other elective structures beautify protection and luxury even similarly. These encompass Audi pre experience the front as a issue of ACC forestall & pass, night time imaginative and prescient assistant with highlighting of detected pedestrians and Audi lane help, which detects boundary traces at the roadway.
A general excessive-cease characteristic is park help plus with Audi Top View - a gadget such as 4 cameras set up on the automobile to screen its surroundings. A laptop compiles pictures from the cameras and affords them in diverse perspectives at the onboard screen. The Cornerview characteristic offers the motive force a glimpse of visitors crossing in the front of the sedan - a sensible resource while maneuvering via slim exits, for example.
Audi additionally gives many appealing multimedia modules. The Audi A8 L Security is geared up with the Bluetooth vehicle telecellsmartphone on-line as general.
A complete, rapid connection to the Internet is installed thru an included UMTS module, and a partnership with Google endows the automobile with modern, sensible functions. Passengers can join their cellular terminal gadgets to a WLAN hotspot. For discreet telephoning, separate phone handsets are to be had as an choice.
Drivetrain
Audi is launching the brand new Audi A8 L Security with a wonderful engine - the W12. The direct-injected gas engine owes its call to the W-formed format of its cylinders - 4 rows of 3 cylinders every, merged into banks. From a displacement of 6.three liters, the compact, light-weight W12 pumps out 368 kW (500 hp) of energy and 625 Nm (460.ninety eight lb-ft) of torque, with the latter with no trouble to be had at 4,750 rpm.
The W12 is captivating, with its easy going for walks overall performance, its subtle, musical sound and its energy. It speeds up the Audi A8 L Security from zero to a hundred km/h (62.14 mph) in 7.three seconds. In attention of the tires, pinnacle velocity is restricted to 210 km/h (130.forty nine mph). The excessive-safety sedan consumes simply 13.five liters of gas on common in step with a hundred km (17.forty two US mpg) - with the aid of using a long way the bottom determine amongst its direct competitors (overall performance and intake figures are preliminary). Compared with the predecessor version producing 331 kW (450 hp), gas intake has dropped with the aid of using three.zero liters in step with a hundred kilometers - it really is an development of 18 percent.
In the approaching year, Audi will provide a 2nd engine model, with the intention to integrate notable pulling energy with sudden efficiency. Its common intake of 10 to eleven liters in step with a hundred km (23.fifty two to 21.38 US mpg) will earn it a best-in-magnificence rating in phrases of gas efficiency.
In each engine variants, energy is transmitted thru an eight-velocity tiptronic presenting a huge average equipment spread. Its manage gadget is digital, operated with an stylish selector lever or rocker switches on the guidance wheel. The quattro everlasting all-wheel force gadget conducts the energy from the engine to all 4 wheels. In the usual configuration, the sporty force is emphasised on the rear; if the state of affairs requires it, the force gadget redirects a majority of the torque enter to the axle with the higher traction.
Chassis
The Audi A8 L Security offers expensive journey consolation. Audi evolved its chassis, brake gadget and digital manage structures especially for the expanded weight; withinside the wheel manage arms, for example, the tensile strengths, substances and wall thickness have all been recalibrated. The adaptive air suspension with managed damping is included withinside the Audi force pick out gadget, which permits fine-tuning of some of parameters. The elective dynamic guidance rounds out the variety on provide.
The excessive-safety sedan is equipped with general 19-inch solid wheels presenting a semipolished, -tone finish. The in particular sized 255/720 tires have a excessive load index of 117. Synthetic earrings on the edges permit the car to retain visiting at quickens to eighty km/h (forty nine.seventy one mph) even after a malfunction has occurred.
A tire strain tracking gadget that constantly exams the settings is likewise a part of the usual equipment. Audi gives a large spare tire as an choice.
The Audi A8 L Security W12 can be prepared for shipping in past due summer time season of 2011. An extra engine will comply with in 2012. Audi helps its clients with an intensive variety of offerings and a unique education route for drivers and owners.
