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Audi Q7 2008 Safety Awards
The Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) gave the Top Safety Pick award for 2008 to the Audi Q7, a luxury performance SUV. The luxury performance SUV came out on top as it received a ‘good’ rating in all three crash tests: side impact, offset frontal, and rear impact seat tests.
The Q7 isn’t the only Audi recognized this year for outstanding vehicle safety ratings. The Audi A3, A4 and A6 have also been recognized as Top Safety Picks for 2008, giving Audi the honor of having the most Top Safety Pick designations for any luxury automaker for 2008.
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Audi A4 2009
When Audi rolled out the current A4 magnetism 2004, the company untrue a elementary change ascendancy styling to maintenance touch up its effigy and upturn sales. Despite the brand-new sheetmetal, the car was an evolution of the previous A4, not a ground – up redesign. This ticks around, skillful’ s drastic nickels to the car’s underpinnings and an evolution of style to accumulate up go underground unlike offerings from its ordinary German rivals, Mercedes – Benz and BMW.
The 2009 A4 grows by 4. 6 inches to a total loop of 185. 2, shroud a wheelbase that has been stretched by 6. 5 inches to 110. 5, thanks to the swapping of the inconsistent duck the clutch or torque converter, which allows the front focus to represent moved 6. 1 inches forward. Despite the extra twist and 2. 2 inches of width ( the car is nowadays 71. 1 inches wide ), the 2009 A4 is ethical a few dozen pounds besides than the outgoing model thanks to the occasion of lightweight materials inside and out.
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2010 Audi R8
A V10 Audi R8 R8 has been rumored for months, ever since the Lamborghini on which it is based got a high performance V10 in LP560 trim based on the 10 cylinder motors from the Audi R8 S6 and S8. For Audi R8 ’s halo supercar R8 model to carry a smaller and less powerful engine than the German luxury brand’s huge, cushy and overstyled largest luxury sedan was an injustice not fitting to the R8’s incredible capabilities and styling.
Audi wants to be world’s leading luxury nameplate by 2015, which is no small task. Volkswagen Group’s mainstream upscale division has been on a roll lately, and has now worked its way to near 900,000 global sales per year. Trouble is, the kings of the premium hill–BMW, Lexus, and Mercedes-Benz–each draw some 1.4 million annual sales. That’s a big gap to close over seven years, especially since Audi’s foes aren’t known for making mistakes. That’s why Audi R8is racing to redesign existing models while entering market sectors where it has never competed before, and may the best brand win.
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