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All things Audi
By: Mac Date: May 29, 2012, 11:37 am
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I thought I had an Audi thread here. Guess it was 'somewhere'
else.
Anyway, I have a love for the brand.
Here is the most recent commercial, that catches the eye. Their
technology advancements are amazing.
I can't find a youtube for this, so one must go to the Audi
site... ;D
Audi branding
HTML http://www.audi.com/com/brand/en/vorsprung_durch_technik.html
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: August 12, 2012, 8:40 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Audi e-bike…[/glow]
[quote]
A bicycle that runs at 80 kmph. The prototype cycle combining an
electric drive and muscle power along with tech used on Audi
cars was showcased at the Worthwhile Tour in Austria.
Audi unveiled an extremely emotion-inspiring sports machine, the
Audi e-bike Worthersee at Worthersee in Carinthia, Austria. The
prototype cycle combines an electric drive and muscle power.
Head of Design Wolfgang Egg er Comments: “As s high-performance
e-bike for sports and trick cycling, it features the Audi core
competences of design, ultra, e-tron and connect.” The Audi
e-bike Worthersee puts in its first major appearance at this
year’s…
More...
HTML http://leadtoworld.com/audi-e-bike/
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Re: All things Audi
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 13, 2012, 8:50 am
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Niiiiiiiiiice.
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: September 18, 2012, 5:14 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Audi Sphere[/glow]
[quote]AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
On the 17th of July 2012, the interactive exhibition, Audi
Sphere, was launched in front of Christiansborg Palace, the seat
of the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. In three large spheres
visitors can experience key aspects of Audi’s cutting edge
technology: Audi ultra, which is at the spearhead of lightweight
automotive construction, Audi e-tron, the future of electrical
mobility, and Audi connect – a networking strategy for all Audi
vehicles. The exhibition is open until the 5th of August 2012.
THE SPHERES
In the connect sphere you can select a series of movies
explaining networked driving by interacting with a playful,
spherical multi-touch display. The selected movies are then
projected onto the inside of the connect sphere, creating an
immersive cinematic experience. In the ultra sphere you can move
a large scanner display around a lightweight space frame
construction. The scanner display shows a dynamical match of the
completed car that merges with the space frame construction,
seen from the user's perspective. In addition the scanner
display reveals spatially distributed animations and information
about specific ultra components along the scanners paths.
Finally, visitors in the e-tron sphere can conceptually power
the Audi e-tron Spyder, by putting wind turbines into motion and
watch them transmit energy through a complex LED layout covering
the space from wind turbines to the car. [/quote]
HTML http://vimeo.com/46013888
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: December 14, 2012, 6:45 pm
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Talk about sucking them while they are young... brilliant
marketing?
[quote]Just the Facts:
Audi has launched a new driving technology simulation game
in PlayStation Home.
The game features a drivable concept car that showcases
Audi's Quattro, transmission and "ultra" technologies.
The game targets 18-to-35-year-olds.
LONDON — Audi has launched a new driving technology simulation
game in PlayStation Home.
The game features a drivable concept car that showcases Audi's
Quattro, transmission and "ultra" technologies.
The game marks three years that the German automaker has had a
space in PlayStation Home, the virtual social gaming platform
for PlayStation 3.
Audi AG created the PlayStation Home space in 2009 to allow
gamers to hang out and experience Audi's products and
technology. It features everything from Audi AGtv, virtual
lectures and announcements to mini-games like this new driving
sim. As of this week, Audi AG has had 3 million users play a
total of 15 million games in the space since it opened in
December 2009.
The Audi Technology Experience game focuses on Audi AG's
Quattro, transmission and lightweight construction "ultra"
technologies. Gamers get to race a concept designed for the game
on three tracks, and can modify their car while they chase gold,
silver and bronze accolades. There are up to 50 free reward
items including a new Audi personal space on the PlayStation
Home network.
Edmunds says: The game targets a critical group that Audi hopes
to get out of the virtual world at some point and into its real
cars.[/quote]
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wca62x86FGY
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: December 23, 2012, 2:49 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Audi A9 Concept Car[/glow]
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLE9KrFaX7s
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: December 23, 2012, 2:51 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Audi plans a flagship supercar R20; will be a
LeMans racer for the road[/glow]
[quote]Flagship cars are the torch bearers for the brand. They
are absolutely at the cutting edge of technology and science
that their brand represents.
HTML http://image.automobilemag.com/f/new_and_future_cars/2017/1212_2017_audi_r20_supercar/41688281+w799+h499+cr1+ar0/2017-audi-r20-rear.jpg
The easiest way to explain what a flagship car is to a
particular brand – You have to take the examples of the Mercedes
S Class, Buggati Veyron and McLaren F1. All these cars took a
massive investment of labor, time and funds to make them iconic
in their own realm.
Audi is ready create a new flagship car which will wear the four
rings logo proudly on its front grill. Earlier, a zero emission
Audi e-tron was supposed wear this crown but those plans seem to
be on the backburner.
Audi’s new R&D chief Wolfgang Dürheimer wants to create a road
going version of the super successful Audi LeMans LMP1 racer as
the new flagship for the Audi brand.
[img]
HTML http://icdn7.digitaltrends.com/image/audi-r20-625x1000[/img]
The new Audi flagship, supposedly called the R20, will be a
Buggati Veyron rivaling hypercar. Audi is expected to adopt a
diesel-hybrid power train with a twin-turbo V6 mated to two
electric motors with a combined output of 700 bhp and a 1000 Nm
of torque.
It will feature an e-quattro layout wherein the two electric
motors will be placed on the front wheels. The new setup will
add additional torque vectoring, some zero-emissions capability,
ultimate traction, an on-demand boost effect, and a beefed up
torque curve.
Design wise, the R20 will not be that far from the LeMans LMP1
racer. This will reduce the gestation period because the racer
is already a two seater. Audi will only have to work on making
the design production/road legal. The design features expected
are –
A downsized, single frame grille
Stacked LED headlights
Ventilated front and rear wings
An adjustable tail spoiler
A relatively narrow canopy-style cockpit accessed through
gullwing doors
A active aerodynamics system, which can distribute the
downforce between the front and rear axles for optimum stability
On the inside, this will not be as luxurious as a Buggati Veyron
but more on the lines of the Ariel Atom. Expect a thoroughly
practical and race-focused interior. It will have a
Dynamic mode selector
A multi-functional black panel center display
Active-contour seats with integrated four-point belts
A multi-segment high-intensity windshield wiper
A camera-based surround-view package
The R20 will be developed for a limited production of just 100
to 250 units. Expect the R20 to make a public debut at the 2016
Pebble Beach event.
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: January 13, 2013, 11:16 am
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[glow=red,2,300]We Welcome Our Robotic Valet Overlords[/glow]
We Watch an Audi A7 Drive Away and Park in a Garage All By
Itself—With No Driver [2013 CES]
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEh7qIon36s
[quote]
HTML http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Audi-A7-self-parking-demo-01-626x382.jpg
Audi’s future-tech blast at this year’s Consumer Electronics
Show included an automated self-parking feature, which might not
sound impressive. After all, Ford Focuses can now park
themselves with minimal driver input—but Audi’s system will be
fully autonomous, allowing drivers to exit the car and instruct
it to go find a parking space and park itself. We had the
opportunity to watch a prototype version of this system fitted
to an A7 do its thing in the parking garage of the Mandarin
Oriental hotel in Las Vegas, and it was nothing short of
astounding.
The self-parking functionality eventually will include the
ability for the car to go find a parallel-parking spot, park in
owners’ garages, or navigate WLAN-equipped parking garages of
the future, but the version we previewed was the iteration that
only functioned within a laser- and Wi-Fi–equipped garage. Of
course, the Mandarin’s garage normally boasts neither of those
two technologies, so Audi retrofitted portions of the structure.
Laser trackers communicate with the A7 via Wi-Fi, helping the
car to locate itself within the garage as it seeks out a parking
space. Why not just use GPS? Audi points out that in many
parking structures—especially those of the underground variety—a
GPS signal is hard to rely on.
Besides utilizing the assistance of the laser trackers, the
demonstrator A7 uses its stock ultrasonic parking sensors (the
front-mounted radar sensors used for Audi’s adaptive cruise
control system aren’t needed) to avoid hitting things and to
locate open parking spaces. Audi was quick to point out that the
A7 equipped with the prototype system was completely stock—there
were no bulky, experimental-looking autonomous-vehicle doodads
added to the car. The only thing unique to this particular A7
was software tuned to receive location info from the garage’s
laser trackers and its onboard sensors to manipulate the
throttle, brakes, steering, and the shifting of the automatic
transmission (the A7 preferred backing into the open space it
found) to motor along sans driver.
Speed-wise, the A7 didn’t move all that quickly; our best guess
is that it topped out around 5–10 mph. When pressed for a
theoretical top speed, a German Audi engineer on hand for the
demo simply responded that the system could operate at as high a
speed as they wished to program it to, although high speeds in a
parking structure hardly are necessary. Audi reps also hinted
that the prototype’s speeds were being kept low because, well,
it’s a prototype—if the thing were to go AWOL, it’s probably
better if it does so at a walking pace. Regardless, 5 mph seems
plenty quick when you consider the empty driver’s seat—it’s
somewhat difficult to prepare oneself to witness an
ordinary-looking Audi cruise by with no one in it.
The parking-garage system centered around a (prototype)
smartphone app, which was used to instruct the A7 to go seek a
space and to call the car to leave the space and drive back to
the phone operator’s location. The app also would display in
real time where the car was in the garage, and which spaces were
open. So why isn’t this feature on sale now, if it clearly works
in prototype form? Several reasons—the first and most important
of which is the minor detail that most if not all parking
structures lack the communications infrastructure to support the
system. (Audi is working to so equip a garage in Ingolstadt,
Germany.) The second major reason is that more tuning likely is
necessary in order to let the self-parking car handle other
traffic or pedestrians within the garage; during our
demonstration, Audi blocked off a portion of the structure so
that the A7 made the trip from valet stand to parking space
unimpeded. The automaker is giving itself a decade to bring the
advanced self-parking system to market, so you have a little
while to get ready for the future.
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Re: All things Audi
By: Mac Date: February 15, 2013, 5:32 pm
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While I no longer own an Audi, it has definitely become a love
of mine...
[glow=red,2,300]The Future of Audi is the S[/glow]
It begins with the RS 5
HTML http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/YF/esq-audi-rs-5-0313-xlg.jpg
[quote]New York Times reporter once asked rally driver Walter
Röhrl — two-time world champion and winner of the man-eating
Pikes Peak hill climb — about confidence. "I never make
mistakes," Röhrl said. "If you don't think this way, then you
can never go fast."
Driving is like any other skill: Worry too much and you'll think
yourself into a handicap. That's why it's harder to learn to
drive stick when your dad is teaching you, and why Formula One
champions have been known to puke on the grid before races. It's
also what makes the 2013 Audi RS 5 so amazing. It does what few
fast cars can: It gets out of your way and cheers you on.
The RS 5 is based on Audi's 211-hp A5 coupe. The S in its badge
(for sport, predictably) name-checks the S5, an A5 with stiffer
suspension and more power. The RS 5 (for the German rennsport,
or motorsport) is that car on a horsepower-and-silicon bender,
which seems silly until you realize that car companies are made
up of human beings and there is no urge more human than wanting
a crapload more of something. Power, in this case. Also
glorious, shit-starting exhaust noise, of which the RS 5 makes
buckets.
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HTML http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/GP/esq-embed-audi-rs-5-0313-xlg.jpg
[quote]For $69,795, you get a 450-hp, 8500-rpm V-8; standard
all-wheel drive; and boxy fenders wrapped around planet-sized
twenty-inch wheels. There's only one transmission option — a
seven-speed, dual-clutch automatic — and when it downshifts at
speed, the torque hit feels like being rear-ended by a
Freightliner. The seats, motorized body clamps with
Matterhorn-shaped cushions, look like German S&M gear but are
actually comfortable.
But a lot of fast cars are built like this. The RS 5's
personality is what's special: It's distant, uninterested in
your presence, and seems to want you at arm's length. The
engine, a tweaked version of the V-8 in Audi's R8 supercar, is a
steamroller hellion, but it's not so loud that it dominates the
experience. The transmission is so brutally good at its job that
you rarely think about shifting the car manually. The standard
torque-vectoring rear differential abuses the pavement so well
that you drive as if you had 45 hp — foot planted, always — not
450. The 4,009-pound RS 5 is an anvil, but it springs into
corners with mesmerizing agility, seemingly independent of
physics and your talent as a driver. It's like strapping on a
pair of spikes and sprinting across a frozen lake — you know why
you're not falling on your ass, but you still can't believe it's
not happening.
The point here is confidence. Traditionally, fast cars have
beaten you up. After a few miles, the Audi turns into vapor,
leaving just a ribbon of pavement and your brain. You cover
hundreds of miles, climb out, and think that's it. We live in
the future, and I am in love with a four-wheeled robot.
For Audi, this is also a milepost. The German brand, a division
of Volkswagen, has spent the past decade charging from
bottom-rung sales to battling BMW and Mercedes-Benz for luxury
dominance in America. It's climbed farther and faster than
anyone expected. The only thing keeping it from being truly
competitive is a balls-out performance division, the equivalent
of BMW's M or Mercedes's AMG.
Over the past twenty years, Audi has brought just four RS-badged
cars to America, seemingly unsure how to compete. With the RS 5,
Audi has taken a different tack from its rivals. It's
ridiculously fast, but, unlike most European muscle, it's not
obnoxious. It feels genuinely different. That's pretty
important. With modern cars, branding is king; performance
matters less than doing something compelling and unique.
Twenty-six years ago, when Audi's unintended-acceleration woes
hit 60 Minutes, everyone assumed the company was headed for the
gutter. Now it's atop the industry, a breath away from being the
biggest luxury brand on earth. The RS 5 is a capstone in Audi's
How to Take Over the World with a Car Company from Scratch
thesis, and it's proof that you don't have to ape the greats to
beat them on their own turf.[/quote]
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Re: All things Audi
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 15, 2013, 5:47 pm
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That looks sick!
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