No wings, no side skirts, no stripes. And not a single V8 badge anywhere in sight. Ironically, the Audi 200 and V8 share only two significant bits of sheetmetal: the front doors and the roof.

The Audi V8 was an enlarged and redesigned version of the Audi 100 and 200, which in turn were based on Volkswagen's C3 platform (also known as the D1 or D11). The luxury limo had a longer ...

Audi used the platform from the 100 and 200 sedans and put a 3.6-liter V8 engine under the hood of the V8, mating it to one of three transmissions: five or six-speed manuals or a four-speed automatic.