Audi RS Q8
Why 5.7: DougScore 69 daily score meets a high-riding RS badge. It is fast and usable, but mostly bought as stealth-Urus status with Audi manners.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The hot-V 4.0 TFSI gives a genuine V8 rumble on start-up, before anything electronic gets involved. But the twin turbos, the particulate filter and a layer of speaker augmentation flatten everything above idle. Deep, and largely manufactured.
8-cylinder · turbocharged · 6,800 rpm redline · rated 5.4 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €105k (2020) → €72k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Rear outboard ISOFIX and top-tether anchors are standard.
Same Audi pattern as the A3/A6/A7 of this era — front ISOFIX is a cost option, not standard, on the Q8 platform this RS Q8 shares.
Euro NCAP Audi Q8 (2019)
The long version
The RS Q8 is the sensible-person Lamborghini Urus: same MLB Evo super-SUV bones, less theatre, more plausibility in a corporate parking garage. That makes it a better daily than an enthusiast object. Owners use them more than they use low supercars, but the experience is mass, grip and torque management rather than delicacy. It belongs here because it explains the modern performance-SUV buyer perfectly: someone wanted one car to do everything, including quietly signal that they could have bought the louder one.