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Rare Rides: An Almost New Audi S8 From 2001 (Part I) Rare Rides has featured the predecessor of today’s sedan previously, in a very pearly 1990 V8 Quattro. After Audi spent a few years unsuccessfully trying to sell its first-ever attempt at a flagship full-size sedan, it took the lessons learned from the D1 and developed the D2 A8 and S8. Today we’ll focus primarily on the A8 foundations that made the S8 possible. Work on the D2 platform began in 1982 when Ferdinand Piech signed a development contract with Aluminum Company of America (you’d probably call it Alcoa). The goal of the agree...

Audi We take aluminum body components in cars for granted today, along with a whole range of other materials scarcely seen in vehicles just a couple of decades ago. But when it comes to aluminum, there were just a couple of automakers that played a role in making the material mainstream in car production today. And their first models could not be more different. Honda was first to market a car that featured an all-aluminum body, launching the Acura NSX (or Honda NSX, as it was badged in most of the world) in 1990. The everyday supercar, as it became known, was as famous for its aluminum bod...