Posted 7 months 8 days ago under:
News,
Audi
Readers of the motoring magazine “Auto Zeitung” have voted three Audi models top of their classes at the “Auto Trophy 2008”. The poll saw the Audi A4, A6 and R8 pick up three of the year’s most sought-after awards. Audi also took first place in the image report on car brands for the fifth time in a row.
Posted 7 months 8 days ago under:
Motorsport,
Audi
Audi is set to present a world premiere at the Essen Motor Show from November 28 to December 7: the brand with the four rings will be unveiling a race version of the Audi R8 with over 500 horsepower. During the press conference on November 28, Audi will also be presenting its plans for the 2009 motorsport season. This year’s winning Le Mans car and Timo Scheider’s victorious DTM car will be lining up in Essen alongside numerous attractive production models.
Posted 7 months 15 days ago under:
New Models,
Audi
Audi is blazing new trails in corporate publishing: the first issue of the new Audi Magazine appeared on November 14. The Ingolstadt-based company is engaging top-flight teams for both the illustrations and the copy in the new publication. The new Audi Magazine will focus closely on the brand – while relying on high visual and journalistic quality. “Our goals are ambitious: we want to keep setting the standard in the auto industry with our customer magazine”, said Lothar Korn, Head of Marketing Communications at AUDI AG. Anyone leafing through the new Audi magazine will be caught up in it: by the dynamic photo series, where the product metamorphoses into portraits in bold collages. By elaborate styling and design productions, in which the automobile is viewed through an artistic lens. The accompanying stories are just as captivating, written by renowned journalists.
Posted 7 months 17 days ago under:
Sedans/Saloons,
Audi
Audi is the first premium brand to introduce a prestigious long-wheelbase version in the upper mid-size category exclusively for the Chinese market: the Audi A4L’s wheelbase is 60 millimeters (2.36 inches) longer, which benefits rear-seat passengers in particular. The A4L thus offers unrivalled spaciousness in its segment.
Posted 7 months 17 days ago under:
Hatchbacks,
Technology,
Audi
A milestone in transmission technology is now available in the Audi S3 and S3 Sportback sporty compact models. The S tronic dual-clutch transmission unites the powerful two-liter TFSI engine with the road in a manner that is both sporty and efficient. This ensures quicker acceleration, high agility and ride comfort along with improved fuel efficiency.
Posted 7 months 28 days ago under:
SUVs,
Audi
It has not even hit the market, but it has already won an award: “Bild am Sonntag” named the new Audi Q5 the best vehicle in this year’s special SUV class, awarding it the “Golden Steering Wheel”.
The Audi Q5 won out over strong competition and, in the process, repeated the Audi A4’s success last year.
Posted 7 months 29 days ago under:
Sedans/Saloons,
Technology,
Audi
The cost of cutting a dash in the Audi A5 coupé has just been further reduced by the frugal new 53mpg A5 2.0 TDI, which is available to order now in front-wheel-drive and quattro four-wheel-drive forms priced from £28,485 OTR, and will reach its first UK customers in March 2009. Its launch also coincides with the introduction of the even more striking S line specification for all A5 models, available at a premium of £2,250 over standard trim.
Posted 7 months 30 days ago under:
News,
Audi
Peter Schwarzenbauer, Audi Board Member for Marketing and Sales, today opened the first Audi terminal in Japan’s capital. The trendsetting dealership architecture was designed by the renowned office of Allmann Sattler Wappner. It heralds a major investment campaign into the brand’s international sales network, jointly undertaken by AUDI AG and its dealers.
Posted 8 months ago under:
News,
Safety,
Audi
The ceremony at Audi went off with a bang in the truest sense of the word: the brand with the four-ring logo invited guests on Monday to its Technical Development crash hall in Ingolstadt to celebrate 10 years of accident research at Audi. Numerous guests, including Dr. Bernd Weiss, State Secretary for Bavaria’s Ministry of the Interior, were treated, among other things, to a crash test presentation involving an Audi A3 Cabriolet.
Posted 8 months ago under:
News,
Audi
When Christopher Rhody starts a crash test, everything stays nice and quiet. No loud crashing noises, no broken glass and no bent fenders. The Audi employee responsible for developing side and head protection simulates crash situations on a computer. New supercomputers now make these crash simulations even more precise and realistic.