Two of you say to avoid ceramic brakes, I must ask why? Is it from personal experience or urban myth, or worry about the expense to replace?
I've had my car for over two years now and the ceramics are great, never been a problem and are still like new, and they produce next too no brake dust that melts it's self into the alloys and they never rust.
I would thoroughly recommend them on the S8 and would certainly not dismiss a car over them.
There's a documented process for checking them in Elsa and I would recommend that you have that done on a car you were considering.
That said it still wouldn't bother me as there has been loads of S8's broken since I took ownership of mine and I could quite confidently say you could pick up a set of steel discs and calipers should there ever be any issue with the ceramics and the fat calipers that you would have left over would probably cover the cost of the steel disc setup.
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