The Golf VII, Typ 5G will use the new MQB platform, shared with the new Audi A3, new SEAT León and upcoming Škoda Octavia.

Fiorio stated that the team needed another top driver as " Audi will have four top drivers next year so it would be very difficult competing with only two.

Audi has announced that they will switch from the A4 to the A5 starting in 2012.

It will also serve as an Audi Academy training facility for Audi employees in the United Kingdom.

There is speculation that this engine will also be fitted to a planned Audi RSR sports car, based on the Audi Rosemeyer concept.

For example, as used by licensee Audi, the five-speed tiptronic will automatically make the upshift from 1 to 2 when moving off from a stop, even when in manual mode ; the transmission then waits for the user's upshift command before proceeding from 2 to 3, 3 to 4 and 4 to 5, although the transmission will still upshift if the redline is approached.

The Torsen T-3 will be employed as the centre differential in all future non-Haldex Traction Audi models with quattro four-wheel drive, current applications: 2008 Audi S4 ( B7 ), Audi RS4 ( B7 ), and Audi Q7.

On the seven-speed unit in the 2007 on Audi variants, will not automatically shift to 6th gear ... maxing out at 5th to keep power available at high RPM while cruising.

During this transition, production was also moved from Düsseldorf to Ingolstadt where the successor company Audi still has its production.

17 % of the total Hungarian exports comes from the exports of Audi, Opel and Suzuki.

This can range from cheap vinyl imitation leather, found on some low cost vehicles, to real Napa leather, found on certain models of luxury car brands like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi.

Production was moved from the Audi plant in Neckarsulm ( where the 924 and 944 had been manufactured under contract to Porsche ), to Porsche's own factory in Zuffenhausen.

Waits found himself in a situation similar to his earlier one with Frito Lay in 2000 when Audi approached him, asking to use " Innocent When You Dream " ( from Franks Wild Years ) for a commercial broadcast in Spain.

* Audi A6 ( C5 ), the second generation of the Audi A6 built from 1997 – 2004

The site has also attracted serious interest from automakers Audi, Nissan, and Hyundai.

* 2010-The strong man over the water is now B-M from Arjoldshoeve also known as " Tukker " married with his steph-sister Dusti ( aka Audi ) from Arjoldshoeve.

The road car engine aspect of the business was split from the racing division following the sale of the engineering division of Cosworth to VW / Audi in September 1998 and renamed Cosworth Technology, before being acquired by Mahle GmbH in 2005.

Other companies known to have benefitted from the Cosworth engineering input are Mercedes-Benz ( with the 190 E 2. 3-16 ), Rolls-Royce, and Audi ( notably their RS cars ).

The Audi RSQ sports coupé from the 2004 film I, Robot ( film ) | I, Robot, envisioned as being motivated by spherical " wheels "

Major parts ( block, crankshaft, head assembly ) were initially purchased from Audi and shipped to the U. S. where final assembly was accomplished by AMC at a plant purchased specifically for production of this engine.

They were prevented from using the Volkswagen or Audi names in association with the AMC assembled version by contractual agreement.

Audi here profited from their Lamborghini ownership, which allowed them to source the Gallardo's V10 for their own cars.

The Omni had been designed alongside the Chrysler Horizon with much input from the Chrysler Europe division of the company ( evidenced by many examples having VW / Audi engines ), which Iacocca axed in 1978.

* 1932 The Auto Union was founded, created from Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW.

The aerodynamic features of the Sierra were developed from those first seen in the Escort Mark III — the " Aeroback " bootlid stump was proved to reduce the drag coefficient of the bodyshell significantly, which was a class leading Cd0. 34 at its launch, though not as good as the Cd0. 22 of the visually similar Ford Probe III concept car of the previous year, and also behind the contemporary third generation Audi 100 that was unveiled the same year-the first production car to get below the Cd0. 30 barrier with an impressive figure of Cd0. 28.

Audi, from whom the Ödlings are come ;

In 2004, Infiniti added an all-wheel drive version of the G35 sports sedan to compete with similar all-wheel drive sports sedans from Audi and BMW.

It was used in the " 3L " versions ( from its diminutive fuel consumption of only ) of the Audi A2 and the Volkswagen Lupo.

Mitsubishi and some Audi models ( Audi TT ), meanwhile do not have the M, and instead have the + and -, which is separated from the rest of the shift modes ; the same is true for some Peugeot products like Peugeot 206.

Audi, Mercedes, Opel, Studebaker, SEAT, Daewoo, Subaru, Zastava Automobiles and others have consulted Porsche Engineering Group for their cars or engines.

In 2010 Audi revealed that in their electric car, the A1 e-tron, they would have a small 250 cc Wankel engine running at 5, 000 rpm that would recharge the car's batteries as needed.

In 1980, a German car maker, Audi, at that time not noted for their interest in rallying, introduced a rather large and heavy coupé version of their family saloon, installed a turbocharged 2. 1 litre five-cylinder engine, and fitted it with four-wheel drive.

Despite Vatanen's nearly fatal accident in Argentina, in the middle of the season, his team-mate and compatriot Timo Salonen led Peugeot to its first drivers ' and manufacturers ' world championship titles, well ahead of Audi and their Audi Sport Quattro.

European luxury carmakers such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz still offered wagons in their North American lineup, using the labels " Avant ", " Touring ", and " Estate " instead of wagon.

However, these wagons had fewer trim and powertrain levels than their sedan counterparts, for instance the wagon styles of high-performance trims such as the BMW M5, Audi RS6, Mecedes-Benz E63 AMG were never imported to North America.

Due to the popularity of SUVs in North America, these European manufacturers have been supplanting their wagons with car-based crossovers such as the BMW Sports Activity Series, the Audi Q5, and Mercedes-Benz M-Class, these offer a wider range of options and engines than their wagons.

In 2009 Audi paid € 90m for their share.

Audi has yet to produce a hardtop convertible as of 2011, since they include quattro as standard equipment in their convertibles ( after the discontinuation of the 2007 Audi A4 2. 0T cabriolet ) which already adds extra weight.

For Audi in their Audi S8 5. 2 FSI quattro, the V10 was a compromise between a V12 which would be too long and suffer more internal friction due to extra cylinders and values, and a V8 which would be more compact but have larger heavier pistons and produce lower revs.

BMW and Audi later unveiled ten-cylinder versions of their mid-range saloons ( the BMW 5-Series and Audi A6 families, respectively ).

Audi used straight-five engines in many of their cars between 1977 and the early 1990s, and started using them again in the 2000s along with VW.