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Audi A5 2.0 TDI quattro S-Line Coupe Registration: BT58MRU Registered: 27/02/2009 Mileage: 30138 Transmission: Manual Fuel: Diesel Exterior Colour: Phantom Black

Filed under: Sedan , Technology , Audi , Luxury 2011 Audi A8 – Click above for high-res image gallery One day, we’ll be able to have wireless internet access from nearly every point on the globe.

More tech in your car? Oh, that’s inevitable. But automakers are trying to figure out the best way to implement it. There are two main architectures currently;

When Audi says it is going to have apps available for download to its cars by the end of the decade, it doesn’t mean an app like Bejeweled 2 – it means an app like heated seats.

The all-new A8 and updated Q7 won’t be the only vehicles in Audi’s line-up to benefit from the automaker’s new eight-speed gearbox.

Over the course of the last 20 years, each new Audi model has weighed around 10 percent more than its predecessor, but that all changed when the all-new 2009 Audi A4 (B8) debuted last year.

Filed under: Hybrid , SUV , Plants/Manufacturing , Technology , Crossover , Audi , Electric Audi A8 Hybrid concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Thanks to the Volkswagen Group’s strategy to be the leading player in the alternative-powertrain market within the next decade, Audi has announced a rapid expansion of hybrid and electric vehicles over the next few years. The German automaker wants to improve efficiency of its internal combustion engines (both gasoline and diesel) by 30 percent – and it wants five percent of the brand’s model line to be electric. “In the future, our customers will be able to choose from an increasingly broad range of driveline technologies,” said Audi CEO Rupert Stadler

Filed under: Motorsports , Technology , Audi 2010 Audi R15 plus – click above to enlarge Testing for the 24 Hours of Le Mans doesn’t begin until mid-June, but that doesn’t mean that Audi isn’t already hard at work bettering the chances of their diesel-powered R15 TDI racer. Thanks to a belated rule change for the LMP1 class designed to hamper the dominance of diesel-powered vehicles, Le Mans rulemakers have mandated smaller-diameter air restrictors and curbed supercharger pressure in an effort to level the playing field. According to Audi, those alterations have made the German automaker prioritize aerodynamics and downforce even more than normal