Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but this week's Dutch AutoWeek has a small article about the W12 A8, to debut at the Paris Motorshow. 6 litres of displacement, 420 hp and 550 Nm. 0-100 kmh is dispatched with in 5.8s, and it takes 32 s more to reach the governed top speed of 250 kmh. German price is around DM200000. Tom