A new open-top version of the potent V8-powered Audi S4 opens for UK ordering this month with an OTR price of £40,275. The only convertible of its kind to combine a powerful eight-cylinder engine with the reassurance of permanent four-wheel-drive, the new S4 Cabriolet will reach its first British customers in early April.
The compact 4.2-litre V8 engine, which boasts 344PS at 7,000 rpm and peak torque of 410Nm at 3500 rpm, gives the new Audi S4 Cabriolet truly exhilarating performance. 0-62mph in the six-speed manual transmission version is covered in just 5.9 seconds, and the six-speed tiptronic (automatic transmission optional at £1,400) runs close at 6.2 seconds. Both versions can, where permissible, reach an electronically governed maximum speed of 155mph.