Audi has made a chairless chair for its workers. It’s a sort of exoskeleton/outer-body shell that isn’t quite a suit that Tony Stark would don. Instead, it’s more of a balancing aid, a way to alleviate force exerted on the back, knees and ankles while workers assemble the next generation of Audi vehicles. The “chair” […]
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Meet e-quattro, Audi’s New Version of quattro for Hybrid Drivetrains
One of the jewels in Audi’s cap is quattro. As our origin blog post describes, it’s the all-wheel drive system to end all all-wheel drive systems. Developed in the context of German army snow crawlers, few competitors have come close to replicating its gift for maintaining grip. All that will shift soon with the addition […]
Audi prologue Actually a Preview of Next-Gen A6, A7 and A8
Digital Trends recently interviewed Marc Lichte, chief designer at Audi, to talk about the prologue concept and what it means for future Audi vehicles. Audi showed the prologue concept last month at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It’s an interesting interview because it shows that the prologue bends the rules of what a concept vehicle […]
Audi Looks To Expand RS Models in North America
If you’re a performance automaker facing increasing CO2 and pollution restrictions, what do you do? For Audi, the response is to forge ahead with RS models and as Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park said, “Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, find a way.” This is basically what Audi’s RS captain, Heinz Peter Hollerweger, recently […]
A Few Trends About the A3 We Could See Happening in Raleigh
As the A3 sedan has launched this year, we in Raleigh have observed how people are reacting to it: customers, writers, journalists, aficionados, Millenials, etc. This is a sedan that’s means to extend the sedan line of the A4, A6 and A8 by replacing the dominant feature of previous A3s: the hatchback. As we’ve talked […]