Monday car porn: chrometastic A8

Newswheel staff :: 21 November 2005 :: Filed under Four wheel drive, Saloon, Audi, Audi A8, Europe & UK, US

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The meaning of bling

It’s easy to forget that Audi’s A8 is one of the few mass-production motor cars constructed largely from aluminium. But German tuner MTM has provided an awesome reminder with this stripped-down-and-polished A8 for a customer in Dubai.

Unlike most all-chrome vehicles, the MTM A8 might actually be reasonably practical. After stripping and polishing the bodywork, MTM applied a clear-coat lacquer to provide a protection for the panels against the elements. Plastic components such as the bumpers and wing mirror housings were treated with a complex enameling process in order to mimmick a polished metal finish.

And of course MTM didn’t leave the engine untouched. Into the recess between the 4.2-litre V8’s cylinder heads goes a supercharger, bumping peak power output to around 450bhp and increasing twistage to 390lb/ft.

Tacky? Yes. Tasty? Definitely.

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