Our second consecutive scan of the day after the Mazda RX-8 facelift (click here) comes from Auto Motor und Sport. The Germans sent out their February issue of the magazine and it didn’t take long for subscribers to scan the article concerning the Audi R8 V12 TDi Study that will make its debut in Detroit.
Unfortunately, our German isn’t good enough for us to translate the whole article but what
Audi has begun production of its luxury midsize sedan, the A6 in India at its Aurangabad site in the state of Maharashtra. In 2008, more than 300 A6 sedans all of which are intened for the Indian market, will be assembled in single-shift operation. By 2015 however, 2,000 units of the A6 should be rolling off the line as Audi plans to invest more than 30 million euros in production alone in India.
German luxury car maker Audi announced today that it will hire 800 college graduates this year.is That’s 200 more new hires compared with 2007. The new positions focus on the need for engineers with about one-third of the new employees to be utilized in Technical Development. Engineers specialized in electrical engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering and automotive technology are
Today Audi announced that 33,000 customers have already placed orders for the 2008 A4 in Europe. The new Audi A4 sedan has been available for test driving at Audi dealerships for just a few days now – in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. In January 2008 the new A4 will also be launched onto the market in France and Spain, and will then gradually be
VW Group’s luxury carmaker Audi announced that it plans to spend a total of 10.6 billion euros from 2008 to 2012 in fixed investments. That’s compared to the 9.8 billion euros that Audi planned to spend from 2007 to 2011. According to Audi, 7.9 billion euros of the total investment will be used for new products as the German carmaker plans to expand its range of vehicle models from the current 25
Considering the fact that a brand new Audi R8 in Germany will set you back by 104,400 EUR or approximately $151,400, a 4 month old R8 with a mere 3,400 km or 2,112 miles on its odometer, seems like a bargain at 35,999 EUR or about $52,200. Of course, this car has a few damages here and there but you can’t have it all. Humor aside, and even though we’re no experts, we’re trying to figure out