New info and pictures from Frankfurt (danke Mark81) [UPDATED - more pictures]
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New info and pictures from Frankfurt (danke Mark81) [UPDATED - more pictures]
More pics from <a href="http://www.motivemagazine.com/gallery/gallery.html?c=show_thumbs;p=Events/Industry%20Shows/Frankfurt%20IAA/2007/Day%202%20Gallery;i=400;pg=9">Motive Mag</a>
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-17.jpg">
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<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-27.jpg">
From <a href="http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/frankfurt/112_2007_frankfurt_motor_show_part_1/2009_audi_a4.html">Motor Trend</a>
Audi's big Frankfurt premiere is the latest version of its bread-and-butter sedan. Longer, lower, wider, the new B8 A4 is essentially a four-door version of the sexy A5 coupe. Wheelbase is up a whopping 6.6 inches, and it has shorter overhangs and a new higher-quality interior with real useful rear-seat headroom and shoulder-room for a C-segment car. Overall length is up 4.6 inches, it is 1.1-inches wider and 0.1 inch lower, and the drag coefficient has come down from 0.31 to a very impressive 0.27. The front suspension has been moved forward with the engine sitting farther back, and the steering rack is lower, for lower center of gravity and better handling. The handsome new sedan has LED daytime driving lights in the lower part of the headlamp, Audi's answer to BMW's ring parking lights. In its quest to reverse the usual increase in weight, the new A4 has "a very strong aluminum content" and extensive use of ultra-high-strength steel, for lower mass versus the B7 A4. Every A4 will come with MMI (the Kraftwerk-like "man-machine interface" ancillary control device) with top models getting MMI with a navigation screen on the center dash. The base MMI setup displays directions in the instrument panel. The A4 will launch next August or September in the States with a 265-horsepower, 243 pound-foot 3.2-liter FSI direct-injection V-6 with standard six-speed Tiptronic automatic. <b>Later, we'll get an all-new 2.0-liter turbocharged direct-injection four (presumably with six-speed manual or DSG available), with at least 250 horsepower and perhaps as much as 260 pound-feet of torque.</b> Audi will probably show the new A4 Avant next year at Geneva, and it will go on sale in the U.S. with the sedan, with pricing close to the current car's $28,000 to $38,000 range. We'll have to wait another year for the S4, and an RS4 version will launch some time after that.
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-11.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-12.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-13.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-14.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-15.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-16.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-17.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-18.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-19.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-20.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-21.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-22.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-23.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-24.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-25.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-26.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-27.jpg">
From <a href="http://www.motortrend.com/auto_shows/coverage/frankfurt/112_2007_frankfurt_motor_show_part_1/2009_audi_a4.html">Motor Trend</a>
Audi's big Frankfurt premiere is the latest version of its bread-and-butter sedan. Longer, lower, wider, the new B8 A4 is essentially a four-door version of the sexy A5 coupe. Wheelbase is up a whopping 6.6 inches, and it has shorter overhangs and a new higher-quality interior with real useful rear-seat headroom and shoulder-room for a C-segment car. Overall length is up 4.6 inches, it is 1.1-inches wider and 0.1 inch lower, and the drag coefficient has come down from 0.31 to a very impressive 0.27. The front suspension has been moved forward with the engine sitting farther back, and the steering rack is lower, for lower center of gravity and better handling. The handsome new sedan has LED daytime driving lights in the lower part of the headlamp, Audi's answer to BMW's ring parking lights. In its quest to reverse the usual increase in weight, the new A4 has "a very strong aluminum content" and extensive use of ultra-high-strength steel, for lower mass versus the B7 A4. Every A4 will come with MMI (the Kraftwerk-like "man-machine interface" ancillary control device) with top models getting MMI with a navigation screen on the center dash. The base MMI setup displays directions in the instrument panel. The A4 will launch next August or September in the States with a 265-horsepower, 243 pound-foot 3.2-liter FSI direct-injection V-6 with standard six-speed Tiptronic automatic. <b>Later, we'll get an all-new 2.0-liter turbocharged direct-injection four (presumably with six-speed manual or DSG available), with at least 250 horsepower and perhaps as much as 260 pound-feet of torque.</b> Audi will probably show the new A4 Avant next year at Geneva, and it will go on sale in the U.S. with the sedan, with pricing close to the current car's $28,000 to $38,000 range. We'll have to wait another year for the S4, and an RS4 version will launch some time after that.
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-11.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-12.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-13.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-14.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-15.jpg">
<img src="http://my.fit.edu/~agarcia/a4b8-16.jpg">
