Audi's styling has always included sharp lines and hard creases, along with a trapezoidal grille. But for this Q8, Audi took a different approach to their design. The grille is octagonal, rather than the original trapezoidal shape, and the headlights are thin. All Q8's come with LED headlights as standard equipment, but the top Prestige trim gets Audi's interesting (and gimmicky) matrix LED headlights and taillights that do a little dance when you activate various features with the car. In an interesting design twist, the Q8's high beams are positioned below the headlight housing, and it looks good.

From the side, the Q8 is a sharp and creased athlete. Hard body lines just below the door sill give the Q8 strong hips, but take a notice at the roof line. The Q8 doesn't have as sloped of a roof line as the GLE Coupe and the X6, and it definitely looks much better than those cars. All Q8s start off with 20-inch wheels, but personally the 21-inch wheels look much better on the Q8 than any of the other options.

Out back, although the Q8 is heavily based on the Q7, the Q8 has its own styling. Audi has always made their exterior lighting fixtures extremely gimmicky, and that's no different on this Q8. The Q8 joins the trend of automakers using a light bar, which looks really good on this Q8. Also, in typical Audi fashion, they include sequential turn signals in a slim portion of the taillight housing, but the Q8 has an auxiliary turn signal indicator because it doesn't meet a federal law that requires a certain amount of area to be lit up. And also in typical Audi fashion, the Q8 has fake exhausts. The Q8 does not do a great job with making the exhaust tips look real. In addition, I noticed that the silver plastic trim was sticking out quite a ways from the bumper and could actually be pushed in, but I expect quality to get better as they produce more Q8s.