Audi Ends 2020 with the Most Successful Quarter in the Company’s History

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="57128"] source: Audi AG Over 500,000 cars delivered between October and December A total of 1.69 million delivered worldwide in a challenging year New best figures in China: 727,358 cars (+5,4%) Hildegard Wortmann, Board Member for Sales and Marketing: “We aim for further growth in 2021” AUDI AG ended 2020 with the most successful quarter-year in the company’s history for cars delivered: between October and December the company supplie...
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Project e-tron: Winter Mode Engaged

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56402"] words/photos: George Achorn Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q4_2020 issue of quattro magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro magazine, please join Audi Club here.  When the winter of 2019 was setting in, acquiring a set of winter tires for Project e-tron wasn’t terribly high on the list. We’d just made the considerable expenditure of buying the car and we hoped to make it through the...
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Audi Q4 e-tron and Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron Spied Inside and Out

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="55152"] We have some new photos showing both the Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron and the regular Q4 e-tron out on testing. The Q4 e-tron brothers are no secret anymore for most of you as we have spied them both before (Q4 e-tron) (Q4 Sportback e-tron) but this time we also managed to get a look inside two of them. We can see that the look of the interior differs both from the one seen in the VW ID.4 as well as the Skoda Enyaq iV and resembles the look o...
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Marc Lichte’s Audi e-Design

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="54066"] source: Audi AG Electromobility is changing the automotive design of the future. Marc Lichte, Head of Audi Design, on the most important features in the exterior design of the Audi e-tron. “Times have never been as exciting for us car designers as they are today. Right now is the best time to rethink automotive design, to redesign it - in short: to lead automotive design into the future. The transformation to electromobility paves th...
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Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron, the Sportier Q4 e-tron

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="53039"] Meet the Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron, the sportier Q4 e-tron. We have some new photos showing both the Audi Q4 e-tron and the Q4 Sportback e-tron testing. The Q4 e-tron is no secret anymore for most of you but for the Sportback version, its our first sighting. We spied both Q4 versions testing together in the Austrian Alps. And as usual with most Sportback versions it’s a more coupe-ish looking sibling of the regular car. [gallery link="...
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The Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron concept

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="49168"] source: Audi AG Audi presents Coupé variant of Q4 e-tron as a concept car Versatile efficiency technologies enable ranges over 500 kilometers (310.7 mi) Production version to be launched in 2021 as the Audi brand’s seventh electric model From a technical perspective, they are identical twins, but in terms of their shape, they each have their own unmistakable and characteristic features: The Audi Q4 e-tron&...
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Are You Ready? Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron Concept Reveal Today at 7:15 PM CEST / 1:15 PM EST

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="49008"] words: Bill, photos: Audi AG Are you free today at 1:15 pm EST? Audi is premiering the Q4 Sportback e-tron concept. We will try to share the video on our Facebook page but in case we miss it, you can find it on Audi YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and AudiMedia.TV. Enjoy the reveal! https://twitter.com/audiofficial/status/1280177186842918941?s=21
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Car and Driver: Audi Q4 e-tron Is Coming to the States and Will Start Around $45,000

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="47184"] words: Bill, photos: Audi AG Editor's note: this originally appeared on our sister site, e-tron connect. Car and Driver is running a series called 25 Cars Worth Waiting For and the Q4 e-tron is on that list. The Q4 e-tron will be the first Audi to use Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform which will also be under the Volkswagen’s I.D series, SEAT el-Born, and Skoda’s Enyaq and a yet unnamed hatchback. [gallery link="none" columns="1" s...
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Early Audi Q4 e-tron Mule Spied Testing

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="46003"] Editor's not: this originally was posted to our sister site, e-tron connect What’s a Volkswagen ID.4 test mule doing out testing with Ingolstadt registration plates and in a line of other Audi test mules? It’s a pretty safe bet that this is no Volkswagen at all, but an early Audi Q4 e-tron test mule wearing ID.4 bodywork. We’ve already seen early variants of the Volkswagen Group’s MEB architecture coming to fruition over at Volksw...
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quattro Magazine q4_2019: Event Report – HRE Open House 2019

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="42170"] words and photos: Denis Podmarkov Editor’s note: This article originally ran in the q4_2019 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, join Audi Club here. Vista, CA - HRE Wheels needs no introduction. The firm has been around since 1978. Every year, HRE and their partners bring out the best of cars for a brand party. The event features quality vendors, including familiar faces like Allroad Outfitter...
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quattro Magazine q4_2019: Event Report – Big SoCal Euro 2019

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="34760"] words: Bill, photos: Denis Podmarkov Editor’s note: This article originally ran in the q4_2019 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, join Audi Club here. San Diego will always be known as a Navy town. The U.S. Pacific Fleet has its homeport there and some of its most technically advanced ships are based there including cruisers and destroyers. Well, it seems Big SoCal Euro wants to change San Di...
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Bram Schot Speech At Geneva International Motor Show 2019

source: Audi AG Bram Schot Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another historic moment for Audi. Just a few months ago, we made history with this car next to me. The Audi e-tron*, our first all-electric series model. At its world premiere, we sat down, shared some thoughts and introduced this great new member of the Audi family. Today, I will do just that. At this special event in San Francisco, I referred to a saying that dates back t...
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Advance Look at the Series: The Audi Q4 e-tron concept

source: Audi AG Compact electric SUV with all-wheel drive presented at Geneva Motor Show Range of more than 450 kilometers thanks to versatile efficiency technologies Production version to be launched at the end of 2020 as the Audi brand’s fifth electric model It has been roughly a year since the first series production Audi with electric drive made its debut at the same location: The Audi e-tron* was still covered in camouflage wrapping foil at that point. The bran...
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Audi Q4 e-tron Concept Drawings Drop Before The 2019 Geneva Motor Show

source: Audi AG The onslaught continues from Audi. Today, Audi AG dropped three drawing of the Q4 e-tron concept. It'll be showcased at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show from March 7 through March 17. The grille is the familiar shape of the Audi e-tron SUV but those hips...definitely more rounded. Me gusta! Audi is planning on a production model in late 2020 or early 2021. [gallery link="file" size="large" ids="22752,22751,22750"]  
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Autoblog: Audi Q4 SUV Spy Shots Show A Coupe Q3

source: Autoblog Coupe SUVs aren't going anywhere. Audi looks like it's further along in preparing its next iteration of this bodystyle for a vehicle we imagine will be called Q4. Like others of its kin, this vehicle looks like it'll also sacrifice utility and space for the sloping roofline style... Read the rest of the story HERE
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