Volkswagen Group D platform#D3

The D1 (also known as the D11{{cite web|url=http://www.motor-klassik.de/audi-audi-v8-d11_4c--1214573.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130106041251/http://www.motor-klassik.de/audi-audi-v8-d11_4c--1214573.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 January 2013|title=Audi V8 (D11/4C) – Technische Daten|work=Motor Klassik|language=de|access-date=2009-06-30}}) platform was based on a stretched version of the Volkswagen Group C3/C4 platform:

• Audi V8 (Typ 44) (1988–1991)
• Audi V8 (Typ 4C) (1991–1994)

The D2 platform is an all aluminium monocoque, based on space frame principles, which helped to significantly reduce weight without being any less rigid. Audi AG refers to this type of construction as the "Audi Space Frame" (ASF). It is technically the first 'original' D platform.

• Audi A8 (1994–2003)
• Audi S8 (1996–2003)

The D3 platform, also employing an aluminium space frame, was used for the second generation Audi A8, A8L, and S8.

• Audi A8 (2003–2010)
• Audi S8 (2006–2010)

The D1 platform cars (not to be confused with the earlier Audi V8 platform) share some components with the D3 platform, but have conventional steel bodyshell construction.

• Bentley Continental GT (Typ 3W, 2004–2018)
• Bentley Flying Spur (Typ 3W, 2005–2019)
• Volkswagen Phaeton (Typ 3D, 2003–2016)

The third generation Audi A8 launched in 2009 is sometimes referred to as the "D4" generation A8. This model combines an aluminium Audi Space Frame (ASF) structure but no longer uses the D platform, but the Audi-developed MLB component matrix.{{cite journal|last=Mathioudakis|first=Byron|date=2009-12-02|title=Miami spice|journal=GoAutoNews|issue=511|pages=1|url=http://www.goautomedia.com/mellor/enews.nsf/edition/CB704DFAE2F30850CA25767E0016385B/$file/GoAutoNews_511.pdf}}

The Fourth generation Audi A8 launched in 2018 is sometimes referred to as the "D5" generation A8. This model combines an aluminium Audi Space Frame (ASF) structure but no longer uses the D platform, but the Audi-developed MLB Evo.

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• [http://www.VolkswagenAG.com Volkswagen Group corporate website]

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