AUDI Q8 (PRESTIGE) 2022 DEPTH REVIEW

 AUDI Q8  (PRESTIGE) 2022

2022 audi q8 prestige and it's pretty loaded up not fully fully loaded but pretty uh loaded up so we have a really nice spec out car for you to take a look at today now throughout this video we're going to be taking a look at the exterior showing you all of the features we'll then pop the hood see what powers this vehicle then we're going to take a look at the cargo area we'll see what is happening back there and then we'll move forward to the rear seats and finally the front seat so see what's all of the features in all of those segments of the video now before we get started with the features of this vehicle i'd like to give a huge thanks to valenti audi for allowing me access to this vehicle to film for you but to start off let's take a look at the headlamps now the prestige they get some pretty special bulbs in the fact they are full led up front they also are matrix led headlamps with the dynamic turn signals you know everything is all led up front as you can see look very cool when illuminated and you also have the headlamp washers up front too we have parking sensors that span the front bumper and we also have the front view camera which is one of four cameras around the vehicle really neat camera system on this car so definitely get a look at that once we get into the interior pretty long but sloping hood with some pretty cool creases in the center and part of the black optic plus package are these beautiful 22 inch wheels they're wrapped around 2 85 40 tires so pretty large wide tires as well and equally as large brake calipers painted in red very nice contrast to the black paint on this car black optic elements include the surrounds on the windows as well as the roof rails you also get some more blacking out elements on the front grille and also the rear fascia as well taking a look at the mirrors we have the blind spot warning as well as the turn signal indications they also do power fold and are heated i also get the smart key entry on all four of the door handles just press the little button right over here and the door will lock put your hand behind the handle and it'll unlock really cool element about the q8 is that we have frameless glass so once you open up the doors um there's no frame around the window so it's pretty neat pretty large spoiler back here with the extensions you also see the antenna and panoramic sunroof up top very neat light bar back here that continues all the way across take a look at that also have full led headlamps back here with the dynamic turn signals and part of the prestige model which is really neat is when you unlock the car you get this really pretty cool animation with the rear tail lamp so that's pretty neat we have our exhaust tips that are tucked underneath the vehicle and we also have some more blacked out accenting back here with your rear parking sensors and your rear view camera with a trunk release very attractive looking suv if you ask me what do you guys think in the comments of the exterior design let me know so taking a quick glance under the hood of the q8 we have one single power option unless you spring for the sqa or rs q8 and we'll save those for separate videos i think however under the hood of the q8 is a 3 liter turbocharged v6 produces some pretty good power figures 335 horsepower and 369 pound-feet of torque and of course it is a mild hybrid setup so there's a very small electric motor uh within the uh exterior of the engine that works as a starter generator so it kind of aids in the stop start technology which is pretty neat but pretty tidy up here uh very large engine cover uh but very interesting to me when you lift up the engine cover the the air filter is right on top so that's pretty neat and you can kind of see the valve covers on the side a very very smooth powertrain on this vehicle it is hooked up to the permanent all-wheel drive quattro system as well as an 8-speed automatic so of course the q8 does come standard with a full power tailgate and once we get under the cargo area here take a look at how much room there is there's quite a lot of room from this very nice stainless steel plate to the rear seats and in case you wanted even more room you can fold down the rear seats a 40 20 40 split so you can actually have a ski hatch if you desire to uh to do so but again very roomy back here as well a couple of different things we have to talk about back here so it comes with the cross bars the all weather floor mats and you also have some extra pocket extensions to either side some grocery bag hangers next to the buttons to raise and lower the rear air suspension so you have if you have a heavy object you don't want to lift too far you just press this button right here it'll actually lower the suspension a couple inches so you have to lift your object so high of led lighting to either side as well as a cargo cover and if you lift up the cargo floor there is a spare tire under there a couple of buttons up at the top one to close the trunk and lock the vehicle and want to just close the trunk so before we hop into the back seats there's one item i'd like to mention and this vehicle comes with soft closed doors for all four of them so that is a pretty neat feature and you really don't see that a lot with vehicles that have the before mentioned frameless glass as you can see the frame of the vehicle doesn't come with the door when you open it and that gives it a pretty neat appearance if you ask me very beautiful beige colored interior and this has the luxury package so we have the extra nice seats and extended leather everywhere so very very nicely optioned out vehicle we have leather upper door panels this beautiful beige color for the main color on this vehicle and soft touch materials down below we have the 17 speaker bang and osen sound system in case that's not enough a 23 speaker bang olufsen sound system is available for an extra five thousand dollars some pretty nice looking dark wood accents even have a little i don't know if you could say that this is an ashtray i'm not quite sure but you can actually throw little things in there like a garbage pail and remove it if you'd like you also have a bottle holder and two window controls back here and this also has power sun shades for the rear and no matter what seat you're in you can control both of the windows and shades back here so that's pretty neat uh feature you see we have this beautiful light-colored alcantara headliner very very nice and luxurious for sure but take a look at these seats unbelievably soft leather where it's not perforated but where it is perforated it's equally as soft but it just has the perforations in it to let the air flow a little bit better through the seats not make them so hot or so cool in the winter time but you can fold them down with this little lever right here and they will lock into place once they're full folded down and the ski hatch can be folded down from this button right up top one more thing we can fold down back here is the rear arm rest and as you can see still has some shipping information in it and some cup holders hopping into the rear this being a pretty large suv we have quite a bit of legroom back here now i'm about 5 foot 10 and i adjusted the front seat to a pretty normal driving position for myself take a look at how much leg room i have back here this is pretty impressive down here we have a very nice sort of haptic touch uh climate control so it's two zones for the rear and two zones in the front making it a four zone climate control so you can kind of adjust the temperatures like so and the fan speed and where you want the air to come out that's pretty neat and we also have the heated rear seats back here a couple of usbc and a 12 volt power outlet and a pretty relatively flat floor back here so if you had to put a third passenger back here they have no problem with um leg room back here a couple of other things worth mentioning this is sort of one of the more sloping roof style suvs and usually with that you lose a lot of visibility and trunk space but not so much in this vehicle a couple of led lights back here grab handles and coat hooks very nice place to be back here in the q8 and despite the fact of the frameless doors the doors have a really good sound to them when you close them so looking at the driver's door panel i went ahead and shut off the vehicle so you kind of get a good look of what the interior looks like with all of the screens and lights and things off so i think that's pretty cool but same materials as out back however you have two person memory seats for both the front uh the driver and the front passenger which is pretty nice you don't see that too often and you also have powered and individual child locks for the rear so we have all the mirror adjustments for the heating and the folding i have a trunk release a couple of a pretty large speaker on the driver's door and a pocket and we also have the nice stainless s badge tray right there to the left of the dash we have all of our lighting controls a little storage pocket in here which you can see is all felt lined we also have the hood release and the pedals over there very very comfortable seats and there's quite a lot of seat controls that are found in the infotainment system so once you press this button right here it'll kind of pull up all of your uh extra adjustments and massage for the seat so we'll definitely make sure we dive into that within the infotainment but otherwise we have all of your main seat controls and the four-way lumbar as well so here's the key fob for the vehicle pretty nice uh slender audi key have the lock unlock trunk release and the panel panic alarm on the back as well as a little button here to slide out the physical key from the bottom but pretty simplistic key fob there pretty nice and take a look at how beautiful and streamlined this interior looks when the main screen is off it kind of just like looks like one panel so that's pretty neat push to start right over here and once you start the tilt telescoping steering wheel comes into your last memory setting so that's pretty neat now taking a look at the steering wheel is completely leather wrapped and you have the likewise colored stitching on the inside and a couple of controls here as well all of these for the virtual cockpit and all of these sort of media controls such as your bluetooth telephone voice commands and the skipping and volume for the radio we also have a programmable button so you can go within the infotainment and pick between a few different things that you would like this button to do so that's pretty neat on the back of the steering wheel you have some paddle shifters then you also have a couple of stocks behind the steering wheel one for your turn signals and automatic high beams then you can also shut on and off the lane keep assist with the end button right over here you can see that little icon pop up in the gauge cluster screen as well as the heads-up display so that's pretty neat and to the other side we have the front and rear wipers now as far as the gauge screen goes it's kind of like your default setup here and we can kind of use these buttons again to configure what that screen has to offer so go through a few different menus here we could press the view button at any time and kind of get more information from the center and we kind of have a few different things to go through here down at the side so we can kind of see the lane keep assist and all of your different drivers assistance things like that and we can also scroll over to see our radio functionality uh telephone and the famed virtual cockpit full map view which is pretty neat there and again at any time you can press the view button uh to get different informations or i should say extra information within the gauge cluster screen i'm going to leave this up for the driving portion of the video so that you could see what the lane keep assist does taking a look at the upper dash we have very nice leather up here and continues all the way down the dashboard as you can see very nice heads of display hopefully you can see that on our test drive and that brings me down to the main sort of mmi screen so this would kind of be what i would leave it on as a home screen it gives you a kind of a combination of what the radio is doing what your phone is doing and what the navigation is doing so that's pretty neat if you scroll over you have all of the different apps so to say you can also swipe from the top get your audio settings and different user settings things like that and you also have shortcuts to either side so go through a couple of the sort of main screens that you'd be using every so often we have all of our different audio sources the media for your phone telephone screen itself and the navigation and you could input your destination right up here going back to home we can see we have the apple carplay android auto and once that's hooked up that'll change to a sort of you just tap on that and it'll bring you to that right here we have all of the vehicle information we have a couple of uh pretty good selection of drive modes so as you can see there you also have individual which you can customize a few different things and you can also manually raise or lower the air suspension on this vehicle which is pretty neat a couple of different things within the vehicle screen right here and at this point we can kind of go over what the seats do so if you press either that button in the screen or the central button in the middle of the lumbar controls on the seat we can see that there's a bunch more seat adjustments so you can see you can hug and loosen the rear of the backrest and as well as the sort of bottom of the seat too and you also have extra thigh support on the for the lower cushion as well which is pretty cool this is you could also activate the massage so we have a bunch of different configurations for massage as well as different intensity levels we have a seat temperature balance so we kind of can control if you want more heating on the backrest or more or less on the lower part of the seat and you can do the same with the air conditioning seats and we also have a few different other things to go along with the driver's seat you can kind of press this button over here to start controlling the passenger seat so that's pretty neat we have all of the vehicle settings so general settings sound settings brightness of the displays and the gauge dimmer but yeah that pretty much does it for the screen in here don't want to take up too much of your time explaining this screen because it's a you can really get into depth and spend a lot of time with it but i'm not here to do that just to give you the basic overlay now the lower screen is mainly for climate controls now this is the way you should do it if you want to put climate controls into a screen make it a devoted screen not sort of one where you have to tap this and then start adjusting your temperatures and things like that you know you want to see everything laid out right in front of you without any extra steps we have temperature to either side fan speed in the middle and where you want the air to come out so next to a couple of different controls up top for the auto start stop if you turn that feature on and off sort of hill descent control and you can also access your garage door openers through there you can turn off the upper screen and also turn off the heads-up display just a couple of controls up there and some more down below to control the heated and cool seats and different various things like recirculating there and things like that i also have a more options button to bring up your heated steering wheel and some other things to control the rear climate and various things like that right below on sort of a haptic uh sort of panel right here we have the quick drive mode select as well as your hazards and the defrosters of the engine start stop button sort of a parking camera where you can bring up the all day different camera views lots and lots of different camera views on this vehicle so we kind of have a wide angle front a normal front view top down view rear view a wide angle rear view the front and rear wheels and you can also press this 3d button here to get a 3d image of the vehicle you can kind of all the way around the vehicle to see if there's any curbs near you might curve your wheels or anything that you're really getting close to that you don't want to hit it's a really neat camera system on this vehicle too we can also press this button next to it to pull up all of the driver's assistance functions and we could customize that to exactly how you'd like so that's kind of all the assistance functions this vehicle has an audio volume button right over here and you can kind of move it back and forth for the skipping for the different tracks this brings me down to the gear selector very nice uh use here again eight speed torque converter transmission for this vehicle you go straight down into drive which are down there you can actually have a couple of different um sort of sporty options you can either put the gear selector down once more and i'll put the transmission into a sport mode kind of hold gears or you can also move it over into a sort of fuller manual mode where you can shift down here or on the paddle shifters all the way up puts you into reverse that activates your parking sensors and cameras and then pe of course is for park i also have the electronic parking brake a couple of cupholders on the smaller side and then a 12-volt power outlet have a nice armrest over here covered in leather and also move it back and forth with the little sort of handle on the top we also have a little bit of storage in there with a wireless charging pad and two usbc inlets taking a look at the passenger area nice quattro emblem with a little bit of wood gloss black and a pretty good amount of space in the glove box it's also lockable i have an auto dimming rear view mirror and a couple of controls up here such as for your lighting which is all sort of tap sensitive more lighting controls sos and sort of maintenance buttons and two separate controls for the sun shade and sun roof so we have this one for the sun shade kind of show you what that looks like when the sun shade is completely open you have kind of a front and rear section and this section will either vent or slide depending on how you press the button over here just one more thing i'd like to point out is the vison they even went to the extent to put the visors in the alcantara material which is very nice you also have the mirror card holder and a grab handle so that pretty much does it for the features on this vehicle let's get it out on the road and see how it drives all right so driving the 2022 audi q8 now i have driven a couple of these in the past and what a pleasure to drive this vehicle it really really is even with the 22-inch wheels it's still a supremely comfort vehicle now throughout this test drive we're just going to start off in the comfort mode take it around to this um sort of dead end here test out the turning circle then we'll get it out onto sort of a main road hopefully get it up to about 45 50 miles an hour see what it's like at that speed and then we'll turn on to a back row which we'll put it into dynamic mode for a little bit test out the acceleration and see what it's like to put around the corner not going to go anything crazy because the roads are still sandy and wet so we're not going to push it to its limits obviously but we'll get a good feel for how the suspension handles bumps corners and things like that so one thing i have to say about the turning circle is it's pretty good as it is but audi actually offers as a standalone option is four wheel steering which greatly greatly improves the turning circle of this vehicle that is one thing i do have to say maybe is worth the extra i believe fifteen hundred dollars that they charge for that option especially if you live in sort of a city setting so while we're waiting for traffic here once we get it onto this road here uh it's got some pretty good lanes um that the vehicle should be able to track and at that point we'll kind of turn on the lane keeping assist it's active at the moment and once it starts picking up the lanes um then it'll turn green so wait just a second and um let's see here and the lanes will light up green as such and the distance indicator is also on so the way this system works is i'll show you if you just start sort of veering out of your lane the lane will turn red and it'll gently steer you back into your lane it's not a jerky or intrusive system whatsoever it's just a sort of gentle reminder hey you're out of your lane let me fix that for you for the remainder of the video we're going to turn that off but it is a very helpful and and sort of non-intrusive system uh like i said before now that we're up at about 45 50 miles an hour it's supremely comfortable uh and surprisingly with these 22-inch wheels uh the ride is is not jarring it's just a very very smooth suspension especially in the comfort mode and again this does have an adaptive ride air suspension as well so at this point we'll put it into the dynamic mode as you can see the little s pops up on the gauge cluster there and we'll get it up to about 25 miles an hour just kind of let the transmission do its thing and punch it so pretty brisk acceleration and this of course is the more basic engine that you get on the q8 you know you can also step it up to the sq8 which has the 4 liter twin turbo v8 with 500 horsepower or there's the rsqa with even more power so if this 335 horsepower isn't enough for you there's definitely more options but i would say that um you know maybe 335 horsepower an suv like this doesn't sound like that much but trust me it is enough for this vehicle and it definitely has plenty of torque 369 pounds feet so that's pretty good definitely a pretty quick transmission to up shift too as you saw you know you can kind of hear the hear my foot hit the accelerator and as soon as that happened it switched the highest or the lowest gear possible and kind of just took off so pretty impressive acceleration also the steering in these vehicles that's one more thing i'd like to point out for some reason the steering in the q7s and q8s have such a great weight to them especially when you put them in the dynamic mode so very nice weight to the steering and it does definitely stiffen up a bit once you put it into dynamic now the rattling you hear back there is due to the roof racks so that's nothing to do with the car itself rattling or anything also another thing is it's extremely quiet in here now usually when you have cars with frameless doors there's a little bit more noise intrusion but not so with this vehicle it's very quiet both from a wind noise perspective and a tire noise perspective just very very quiet again not gonna go too crazy with these corners since these roads are very slippery with the sand and it's very moist from the rain we had last night but pretty good feel for these um for the handling on this vehicle very um pretty good for this class i have to say now this is more sort of the most bumpiest section of the uh of the test drive and i'm laughing because it's just soaking up the bumps unbelievably just such a comfortable ride there's no jarring or extra noise coming from the suspension on these um on these bigger bumps here it's just a very relaxing car to drive i could definitely see myself listening to some jazz music kind of just wafting along on the back country roads of new england in this vehicle sometimes if you have an air suspension system the car gets kind of floaty not so much in this vehicle it sort of wafts over the bumps without being floaty another thing i'd like to mention is these seats extremely customizable in the adjustments and that makes it a an overall very comfortable seat to be in for a longer journey since you can really fine-tune how these seats hold you in that accompanied with the massage which i'm not quite sure why i don't have that going at the moment just makes for a a very pleasurable driving experience with this vehicle i think one of the more um comfortable driving audis is is this one i have to say the a8 and um the wagons the all road wagons are unusually um i can't say that word um comfortable for some reason the wagons are just extremely comfortable on the suspension side but so is this so with all of that being said i think you have a pretty good outlook on what the q8 is all about um and if you definitely uh i would i would uh suggest to you guys with spending you know ninety two thousand dollars which this car is on a vehicle uh you know watching a video about it gets you a really good idea of what the car is like however it's always good to go down to your local dealership if they have one a lot definitely take it out for a nice ride and get accustomed to the vehicle and kind of set it up the way you like and if you like it overall you know that's this will be the car for you and i have no doubt in my mind that for most vehicle most clients that this car will please them it is a really great great car plenty of space in here lots of technology lots of comfort and with that being said i hope you have enjoyed the 2022 audi q8 just as much as i have and i also hope you stay with us here at thai drives.