Last night we ran a story on the
RS5 and TTRS and Autoblog picked up the story later today. Reading the comments to the story, we found one post particularly interesting....
Quote »That is no rumour mile...
auto motor und sport made a interview with Audi chief development engineer Michael Dick.
He gave auto motor und sport the correct model release date from today till Feb. 2012.
2008
April
-
A3 convertibel
May
-
A4 Avant
- RS6 Avant
June
-
A3 (face lift)
- new 2.0l Common Rail engine
July
- TT S
September
-
Q5,
A6 face lift,
Q7 V12 TDI
October
- RS6 sedan
November
- TT TDI
December
- S4 sedan and Avant
2009
Januar
-
Q7 full hybrid
Februar
-
A5 convertible
March
-
R8 V10
April
-
A8
May
-
R8 Roadster
June
- TT RS
July
- RS5
October
-
A5 Sportback
2010
Jan
- Q3
Feb
- A1 (2door)
March
- A7
May
- RS4
October
-
A3
December
- A1 (4door)
2011
Januar
-
A6
Feb
- A7 convertible
March
- city (still a ? behind based on the VW up concept)
April
-
Q5 full hybrid
October
- A1 Roadster
November
-
A6 Avant
December
-
R8 V12 TDI
2012
Jan
-
A6 Allroad
Feb
-
A4 facelift
The little techical specs that he gave..
- TT RS 350hp from a 5cyl
-
Q5 SUV is based on the
A4 quattro not on the VW Tiguan and shares nothing with the Tiguan
- New
A6 use a all aluminum chassie and nearly all aluminium suspension to reduce the car weight in average by 100kg compared to competetive models of other brands
- 2008 Audi market the cleanest running diesel engine in the world
- the A1 will be avaible as full electirc car with plug in technology
- The 2008
Q5 is the first DSG equipped car with longitudinal mounted engine in Audis modle range
- possible that Audi starts production in the USA
- Audi slowly goes away from the all models look the same single fram front image.. as a begin the Q models recive more marked vertical struts in the grill, the sportive models recive flater wider single fram grills. But according to design chief Stefan Sielaff this will be a slow process.
this is published in the auto motor und sport edition 5 14. Februar 2008
That's an interesting post for sure. What we do know of these cars listed is consistent with the list and Michael Dick is on Audi's board of directors and in the know. If it's from him, and I don't know why AMundS would say otherwise, then it's likely accurate.
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