Audi Club Florida Newsletter February 2021

Audi Club Florida Newsletter February 2021

https://audiclubna.org/florida

 Some of the attendees of the Annual Board of Directors Luncheon

Photo Credit:  Gerald  Simms

We started the New Year in Daytona with our Annual Board of Directors Luncheon at Red Lobster in Daytona Beach, Fl. Attendees came from the Emerald Coast, Gulf Coast, Space Coast, and the First Coast. We gave out some Audi branded swag and a gift card to UroTuning. We followed the events Covid-19 protocols at the track. We will also be returning to Eurotripper in Fort Myers on February 13th to support a fundraiser for Brookes Legacy Animal Rescue and we will follow the events Covid-19 protocols at Jet Blue Park.

Our priority is keeping you safe when participating in events representing or promoting the club. Audi Club of Florida is not willing to put anyone at risk. While welcomed to these venues, remember we are guests of the establishment or promoter and respect the rules. ACFL recommends obeying the most up to date guidelines and orders issued by the regions and governor concerning events.

Euro Tripper 8

Since we have the Platinum Coast Region there to support the area, ACFL will be there again. It will be on February 13th. It is a fundraiser for Brookes Legacy Animal Rescue in Naples, FL. Purchase Tickets from https://www.ticketleap.com/No sales of tickets will at the gate; each car requires a ticket to enter. Passengers are free; however, ticketholder is responsible for ensuring their passengers also are following Covid guidelines. Masks will be required at the event.

In the meantime, feel free to organize activities with your Audi owning friends and enjoy your wheels. Have some social interaction, following the state and local guidelines when in public and in private. Protect yourself.

ACFL still suggests using an antibacterial wipe, a disposable protective glove, a plastic t-shirt bag, or a dog poop bag as a barrier while using the fuel pumps to avoid potential exposure and dispose of it after fueling. Be careful out there and protect your health. #FlattenTheCurve

Audi Club Florida has its own Audi Club RS 6 Avant Sweepstakes page!

If we reach a certain dollar amount on our page, we get an Audi Club Florida 10×10 tent from EZ-UP. If we double that amount, we get either two 10×10 tents or one 10×20 tent! So please help us while you help yourself to potentially winning an Audi exclusive RS 6 Avant!

The prize in Audi Club’s sweepstakes is a 2022 Audi RS 6 Avant with Audi exclusive paint. The winner will select a 2022 Audi RS 6 Avant base model and special Audi exclusive gloss paint finish of their choice from Audi USA order guide. The prize will also include Audi Beam lights, all-weather mats (RS 6 branded) and trunk liner from Audi Accessories, roof rack and Vector cargo box from Thule, detailing kit from Griot’s Garage, and camping gear including tent, sleeping bags (2 each), duffel bag and backpack from Mountain Hardwear.***

Enter HERE

***Photos may show options not available in North America or optional equipment available at extra cost to the winner

We are trying to expand regional coverage but need your help!

Audi Club Florida has the most active regions of any chapter in the Audi Club North America.

As we continue this year, we are currently looking for leadership in the following area:

Gator Region – Gainesville Area

Thomas Brinkmann, the General Manager, is ready to work with a representative to establish the region. If you are up to the challenge, let me know.

Many people have emailed me personally and through the national office to find out why there is not something in their area. I tell them assistance is required to help get things going locally. We desire to unite the state and have events within an hour’s drive of your location, at least quarterly. We are looking for some people who have the ambition to lead and desire to start something long term, helping arrange places to meet for lunch, activities, attend local car shows and coffee events, and other social activities. If you would like to volunteer and help organize a successful regional club, please contact me for details, and we will discuss making it happen. If you want to get active to help your region with ideas and help assist with and organize events, the regional leadership and I would love to have your help. This club is for you, so help us make it work for you.

Gerry Simms

President and BoD Member

[email protected]

Chapter Regional Reports

First Coast Region- Jacksonville

Photo Credit: Audi Jacksonville

https://www.audijacksonville.com

February Audi Sales, Deals, Incentives, at our Prestige Partner!

Groundhog day says, we have 28 more days of great deals!

Audi Jacksonville and Audi Orange Park will be partnering with the Jaguars this year, as we look forward to welcoming our new coach and for a fun season, if you want to volunteer to work the games sometimes reach out to Stephan Gronberg.

Come check out our array of exotic cars with our Hanania Exotic Collection, as well as the all-new RS 7 and RS 6 Avant. We have a few to choose from!

RS 7 is available for MSRP now!

If you prefer to shop from home, we are offering free delivery. Shop online, and then contact us via phone or our website to arrange delivery of the vehicle and paperwork to your home. We also have an online marketplace now. You can buy your car almost entirely online.

Need your car serviced? We are waiving our service at your doorstep fee and offering free vehicle pickup and delivery! The minimum service charge will be waived, during the Coronavirus epidemic.

Some specials for the month for our Audi club members!

 2020 AUDI A3 

$36,170 MSRP STOCK LA097051

LEASE FOR $349 A MONTH

Lease cannot be combined with any other offer, 42 month lease, 10k miles per year. 25 cents per mile over 35,000 miles. Must qualify for Tier 1 Audi financing, $2000 due at signing, includes all applicable rebates, including loyalty, and competitive lease vehicle. Plus tax, tag, license, $895 acquisition fee and $899 doc fee.

2021 AUDI Q3

$39,370 MSRP STOCK M1021243

LEASE FOR $369 A MONTH

Lease cannot be combined with any other offer, 42 month lease, 10k miles per year. 25 cents per mile over 35,000 miles. Must qualify for Tier 1 Audi financing, $2000 due at signing, includes all applicable rebates, including loyalty, and competitive lease vehicle. Plus tax, tag, license, $895 acquisition fee and $899 doc fee.

2020 AUDI Q5 PREMIUM

$47,300 MSRP STOCK L2107505

LEASE FOR $429 A MONTH

Lease cannot be combined with any other offer, 42 month lease, 10k miles per year. 25 cents per mile over 35,000 miles. Must qualify for Tier 1 Audi financing, $2000 due at signing, includes all applicable rebates, including loyalty, and competitive lease vehicle. Plus tax, tag, license, $895 acquisition fee and $899 doc fee.

2020 e-tron SPORTBACK

$80,075 MSRP STOCK LB036236

LEASE FOR 629 A MONTH

Lease cannot be combined with any other offer, 42 month lease, 10k miles per year. 25 cents per mile over 35,000 miles. Must qualify for Tier 1 Audi financing, $4000 due at signing, includes all applicable rebates, including loyalty, and competitive lease vehicle. Plus tax, tag, license, $895 acquisition fee and $899 doc fee.

2021 A6 PREMIUM

$60,320 MSRP STOCK MN011891

LEASE FOR 559 A MONTH

Lease cannot be combined with any other offer, 42 month lease, 10k miles per year. 25 cents per mile over 35,000 miles. Must qualify for Tier 1 Audi financing, $3000 due at signing, includes all applicable rebates, including loyalty, and competitive lease vehicle. Plus tax, tag, license, $895 acquisition fee and $899 doc fee.

Febuary Audi Club Special:

10% off all APR items. (except tunes)

First Coast Region 

The First Coast Region is working on rescheduling a cancelled event, it may be March. See JaxRings Facebook page for updates.

I contacted Jacksonville Cars and Coffee, they are still waiting permission to restart.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AudiClubFlorida

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JaxRings

https://audiclubna.org/florida/

First Coast Region (Jacksonville)

Leslie de la Serna First Coast Region Lead

[email protected]

Gulf Coast Region February Report

February Specials at our Prestige Partner, Audi Clearwater

Photo: Bob Greving

If you are in the market for a new or Pre-Owned Audi, contact George Rangelov at 727-906-1101 directly and he will get you set up and is aware of the ACNA club discounts.

During this period of high interest and demand for specific Audi performance models and their iterations, unfortunately, some of our members  have experienced Packs and Market Adjustments added to the MSRP by their local dealerships. Audi Clearwater has always maintained a policy of not implementing such pricing policies and practices for ACNA and ACFL members. If seriously interested in one of these cars and you are an active ACNA/ACFL member reach out to George at [email protected] for additional information on ordering these vehicles.

I want to repeat this as many of you were not taking advantage of Audi Clearwater’s offering of a 15% discount to all readers of this newsletter on Parts and Service for your Audis. You need not have purchased your Audi at Audi Clearwater to receive this discount.  If you are traveling to the Sunshine State and are a reader of the ACFL Newsletter you can also use this discount should you need service for your Audi while you are on the road.

The above discount cannot be combined with any other discounts or offers but is available and all that is required is that when you are writing up your service order that you mention the ACFL newsletter discount and the code 0221 for February to your service writer. It is all that simple to start saving money on needed parts and service.

Finally, I want to give a big shout out to Todd Emery and the team at Audi Clearwater for all of the excellent Swag, Kit, and Audi Fashion Forward items that were provided for our drawings at the annual Board of Directors meeting in Daytona this past January. There was some fantastic stuff in addition to the gift certificate from UroTuning. It is really important to support our Prestige Partners who in turn support our chapter with such First Class items. Thanks again Todd.

Audi Clearwater is located at 18940 US Highway 19 N, Clearwater FL. 33764 and their main number is 727 312 1220

Down the Road

Cars and Coffee Reeves Motorsports February 6. Cars usually start arriving by 6:30 and the event ends around 8:00-8:30 Reeves Motorsports is located at 11333 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33612.

Cheers and Safe Motoring

Bob Greving

[email protected]

Emerald Coast Region – Panhandle

Emerald Coast Region-ACFL started the year in the right direction with great turn outs to Crestview, Destin and Pensacola C&C events. Crestview C&C’s new venue was able to accommodate a lot of awesome vehicles and was well organized.  They plan on keeping the same location but changed to quarterly instead of monthly meets. They will be selecting 5 project cars to feature for the next show. Check out their Facebook page for more info on how to enter https://www.facebook.com/crestviewcoffeeandcars/.  The Roar before the 24 in Daytona and the ACFL BoD luncheon was a great little trip to close out the month. Good to see other ACFL members and enjoy some great IMSA racing. We will continue to follow CDC guidelines and attend outdoor events in our area.

February 2021 Events:

2/6 Sunset Stance – 4:30pm Vision Church 5200 HWY 98 E, Santa Rosa Beach, Fl

2/13 Mobile Bay C&C – 8-10am The Fort Park 29001 Bass Pro Dr, Spanish Fort, Al

2/13 Headlights and Horsepower – 6-8pm 1145 Gulf Breeze Pkwy, Gulf Breeze, Fl

2/20 Destin Show and Shine – 9am-12pm Hooters 15015 Emerald Coast Pkwy, Destin, Fl

2/27 Emerald Coast Autocross presented by Race Chip. Register here: https://www.klutchkickers.com/linkonly/racechip

8:30am-2:30pm Emerald Coast Speedway 7134 Garner Landing Rd, Holt, Fl

2/27 Pensacola C&C – 9-11am Detail Garage 5007 N Davis Hwy, Pensacola, Fl

Down the road:

3/1 Biloxi C&C

3/6 ECR’s 3rd annual Britton Hill Fun Run: Information will be posted on our FB page soon. Due to COVID, there will be a limit on the number of vehicles allowed to participate.

4/4 Crestview C&C

4/29-5/1 quattro de mayo (QDM) presented by ACGA. Registration info: https://quattrodemayo.com/

5/9 Slammednuff Destin Car Show: Registration is now open: https://fb.me/e/1CgVtrJmj

All events are posted on our FaceBook page. Keep checking in for updates. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511332725662555/

Make sure to follow us on Instagram @emeraldcoastaudiclub. Thanks to Jeremy Chavez to continue to help support and contribute to both pages.

Looking forward to the next AudiFam adventure! Stay safe everyone!

Melisa Wilcox

Emerald Coast Region Lead and ACFL BoD member

Director-ACNA

[email protected]

Bobby Hopp

Emerald Coast Region Lead and ACFL BoD Member

[email protected]

Platinum Coast Region (Sarasota to Naples)

Thank Goodness we live in the sunny south where it is not too difficult to find great outdoor dining and events with social distancing, since that is our drumbeat this winter! Our year got off to a rocky start with several cancellations and reconfigured events, but we are firmly on the gas pedal now and ready to start 2021 in 6th gear. The Cars on 5th auto show on Saturday, February 6th, sponsored by the Ferrari Club in downtown Naples is always a fun event. The next Saturday (the 13th) is our favorite, Eurotripper 8 at JetBlue Park in Ft. Myers. We hope to meet lots of club members from around the state at this fun outdoor auto show. We will be sporting our newly inherited Audi tent and stick flags—so be sure to come over and check us out! March 20th will find us cruising into the Blue Moon Pizza in Ft. Myers to enjoy their outdoor patio and so much more than just pizza. April 10th will be a C and C at the Naples Dealership at 601 Airport Road; Naples 34104, followed by a mystery cruise to lunch.  Our tour of Solomon’s Castle has been booked for Saturday, January 15, 2022….finally

Barb and Rudy Lohff Region Leads

[email protected]

Space Coast Region (Titusville to Fort Pierce/St. Lucie)

No official activity scheduled this month.

Matthew Guerra Region Lead

[email protected]

Gold Coast Region (Key West to WPB)

No official activity scheduled this month.

Andreas Regalado Region Lead and BoD Member

[email protected]

Gator Region – Gainesville

No activity scheduled this month. .  Looking for leadership in the region.

UroTuning

https://www.urotuning.com

 

Click the link for all the latest specials and new brands at our Prestige Partner UroTuning!

https://urotuning.com/collections/deals

HPA Motorsport Stimulus Sale – HPA has just announced their latest stimulus sale which offers savings of 10% across tons of HPA’s most popular performance parts. From now until February 14th, take advantage of 10% off Turbocharger kits, downpipes, intake manifolds, SHS coilover systems, and much more!

Whiteline Performance “On Ya” Sale – “On Ya” is an Australian slang for “Good On Ya!” – and with Australia Day being celebrated January 26th, Whiteline wanted to offer customers special savings across their entire lineup of suspension goodies. For a limited time save 15% on Whiteline sway bars, lowering springs, control arms, bushings, and more!

AWE Tuning (Special UroTuning Pricing) – UroTuning is a proud dealer of AWE Tuning exhausts, and we are happy to be able to offer our customers prices on AWE systems you won’t find anywhere else! Shop the best prices on AWE at UroTuning!

Vogtland Suspension Savings! – We are excited to be able to offer savings of 15% off Vogtland coilover products! Shop now and get low!

New Parts/Brands:

Recaro – We are excited to announce that UroTuning is now officially a Recaro authorized dealer! Take your interior up a notch with a comfortable seat that boasts ergonomics, performance, and longevity. Whether you’re looking for an OEM+ seat for your daily driver or a dedicated bucket seat for your track car, Recaro has a seat for you!

Dragy GPS Performance Monitoring – We are excited to now offer our customers the Dragy GPS Performance Metering System! This system allows you to easily and seamlessly monitor your vehicles performance and log it to your smartphone, to be easily saved and shared with friends. We are expecting to receive stock in March, pre-order yours today!

Aodhan Wheels – UroTuning carries Aodhan Wheels! The team at AodHan Wheels has more than 10+ years of experience in design, manufacturing and marketing of luxury customized wheels for the automotive industry. With leading edge style and precision engineering, Aodhan specializes in unique designs and wheel fitments that support applications of performance, luxury and standard vehicles.

Nathan Fugleberg
813-444-7021
www.urotuning.com
9836 Currie Davis Dr
Tampa, FL 33619

ABT

https://abamerica.com/tuning/

Our Prestige Partner ABT is offering a 10% discount to Audi Club Florida members.

ABT America

c/o F355 Miami
16560 NW 10th Ave
Miami, FL 33169

[email protected]

Monday to Friday: 9AM – 6PM (EST)

Phone: (305) 974-5958

Lastly, please thank our Prestige Partners below by visiting their places of business or websites and see what they have for you.  That does it for now, looking forward to seeing and meeting as many of you as possible.

Gerry Simms President and BoD Member

[email protected]