Audi A8

Car Sedan

4 production runs · 10 variants · 12 registers with powertrain counts · 4 sources

Years on record

The first and last year each official register has the Audi A8 on record.

Germany: 2025–2026; New registrations per year. Our data starts in October 2025.
Netherlands: 1991–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.
Finland: 1994–2026; Surviving fleet by first-registration year.

Worldwide popularity

Top 10% worldwide

Measured from real registration and fleet counts, not clicks or hype.

Where it's been spotted

Australia Canada Finland Germany Ireland Israel Luxembourg Malaysia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain Switzerland Thailand Ukraine United Kingdom United States

Evidence of real vehicles in each country's official register. Grey imports count, because they're real vehicles on real roads.

Production history, variants & sources

4 production runs · 10 variants · 12 registers with powertrain counts · 4 sources

Researched from the manufacturer's own pages and Wikipedia, with the sources listed.

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Building on it? The same record is one API call: /api/v1/vehicles/car/audi/a8/full

Registration history

Germany: New registrations per year

Netherlands: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

Finland: Surviving fleet by first-registration year

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Germany
2025	322
2026	622

Netherlands
1991	1
1994	7
1995	29
1996	29
1997	16
1998	10
1999	9
2000	5
2001	10
2002	31
2003	243
2004	172
2005	163
2006	127
2007	66
2008	62
2009	27
2010	187
2011	138
2012	78
2013	81
2014	101
2015	92
2016	61
2017	51
2018	161
2019	73
2020	130
2021	84
2022	101
2023	95
2024	91
2025	78
2026	11

Finland
1994	2
1998	3
1999	5
2000	8
2001	2
2002	2
2003	22
2004	30
2005	16
2006	28
2007	26
2008	28
2009	19
2010	55
2011	74
2012	43
2013	38
2014	44
2015	67
2016	56
2017	41
2018	35
2019	43
2020	49
2021	31
2022	30
2023	26
2024	11
2025	25
2026	11

From official registers, as of 2026.10.3. Bases differ per country, so never compare across panels.

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  "body_type": "sedan",
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    "no",
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  ],
  "regions": [
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  ],
  "popularity": {
    "global_decile": 4,
    "mass_decile": 1,
    "rarity": "average"
  },
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