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enginerumors · 6 years ago
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Audi TT 2020 Review, Specs, And Interior
Audi TT 2020 Review, Specs, And Interior
Audi TT 2020 Review, Specs, And Interior – Winter time is usually the correct time for automobile testings, and that is what exactly are Audi engineers doing with Audi TT 2020Roadster. Should you keep in mind, the exams for coupe versions began a year ago. The ongoing edition of TT which aired in 2016, is in its 3rd generation, so these examination mules are symbolizing a middle of the-cycle…
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allcarnews · 5 years ago
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Matador Red Q7: Best Spec?? 😮 ______________________________________ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [8/2/19] The 2020 Audi Q7 has gotten a MAJOR facelift just a few weeks ago and new images of it painted in Matador Red just show off all the changes perfectly! Being a facelift, the majority of the changes are outside but there also are some changes to the suspension and powertrain! The exterior has been totally redesigned to make the Q7 look less like a Wagon and more like a beefy SUV with all new Matrix LED lights front/rear with Laser lights in Europe! The rear also gets a full chrome bar and the exterior gets a new body cladding to add to the SUV style design! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🏁 @Allcarnews Spec Sheet: Europe will get Diesel and gas versions but the US should be only getting the 3.0L gas engine making 335HP and a future plug in hybrid Q7 E-Tron variant! Whether a SQ7 is coming to the US is unknown as it only has a V8 TT TDI diesel in Europe! All power plants get Quattro AWD and a 48v mild hybrid electric system that is becoming an industry standard. 🏁 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Audi single frame grille also has been changed with verticals slays and a larger design! The interior is basically the Q8 interior with the new Audi touch interface systems, updated Virtual cockpit, interior lighting and of course that top of the class Audi quality! That new 48v system allows for loads of advanced features like electronic active roll stabilization, rear wheel steering and more! ________________________________________ ACN EXTRA: I personally hope they don’t make an RS Q7. ________________________________________ -Text by @allcarnews -Images by @Audi ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #Audi #V6 #Q7 #TDI #Germany #SUV #Q8 #SQ7 #X5 #GLE #GLS ||#powerful #performance #turbocharged #supercharged #advanced #SupercarsRevamped #Supercar #HyperCar #ItsWhiteNoise #CarLifeStyle #MadWhips #CupGang #Carstagram #BlackList #AmazingCars247 An #allcarnews poste https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qfnGXh0vp/?igshid=5kl48fsmefyh
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tinbanxe · 5 years ago
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Giá xe Mercedes Benz
Update bảng giá xe Mercedes Benz kèm khuyến mãi tại Việt nam: Mercedes GLC 200, GLC 250, GLC 300, E200, E200 Sport, C200, C200 Exclusive, C300 AMG, S400, S450 2019, S560 2019, S650 Maybach, GLE 450 2020... Sang tháng này, GLE450 thế hệ mới chính hãng chính thức về việt nam và với tầm gia xe Mercedes Benz khá thu hút.
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✔️ Mercedes Benz C-Class
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Tháng 2/2019, Mercedes VN giới thiệu dòng xe Mercedes C – Class nâng cấp đã tạo ra cơn sốt trong thị trường xe sang. Tuy là phiên bản nâng cấp gi���a vòng đời của Mercedes-Benz C-Class nhưng lại sở hữu không ít điểm mới trong thiết kế, công nghệ & động cơ. Có 3 phiên bản là C200, C200 Exclusive và C300 AMG. C200 sử dụng động cơ xăng tăng áp 1,5 lít, 4 xy lanh thẳng hàng hoàn toàn mới, cho công xuất cực mạnh 184 mã lực và đạt mô men xoắn cực to 280 Nm. C200 còn được bổ sung công nghệ lai nhẹ Mild Hybrid EQ Boost, Từ đó máy phát điện còn phụ trách thêm vai trò bổ sung sức mạnh cho động cơ để ngày càng tăng công năng & mô-men xoắn khi cần.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes C200 2019: 1,499 tỷ VNĐ.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes C200 Exclusive 2019: 1,709 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes C200 Cabriolet 2019: 2,800 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes C300 AMG: 1,897 tỷ việt nam đồng.
✔️ Mercedes Benz E-Class
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Tháng 7 năm 2019, Mercedes VN trình làng dòng sedan hạng sang E-Class nâng cấp (W213). Ở lần nâng cấp này, có 3 phiên bản là E200, E200 Sport & E350 AMG (phiên bản E250 dường như không còn). Ở phiên bản E 200 & E 200 Sport mới, upgrade đáng giá nhất của nằm ngay dưới nắp capô với động cơ mới có mã hiệu M264, 4 xy lanh thẳng hàng, dung tích 2.0L sử dụng tăng áp đường nạp kép (twin-scroll), sản sinh công suất 197Hp (mạnh hơn 13 mã lực đối với phiên bản E 200 cũ). Năng lực chuyên môn bức tốc của E200 Facelift mới từ 0 lên 100 km/h chỉ trong 7,5 giây
Tại nước ta, Mercedes-Benz E-Class đang tỏ ra vượt trội so với những đối thủ BMW 5-Series, Audi A6, Lexus GS trong phân khúc sedan hạng sang tầm trung.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes E200 2019: 2,130 tỷ việt nam đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes E200 Sport 2019: 2,317 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes E250 2019: (call)
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes E350 AMG 2019: 2,890 tỷ đồng
✔️ Mercedes Benz S-Class
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Mercedes S-Class là dòng sedan sang trọng bậc nhất cuae tên thương hiệu xe Đức. Mercedes S – Class ngoài các tính năng chỉ có trên Mercedes ra thì còn được trang bị những công dụng cao cấp khác ví như là công dụng massage trên tất cả những ghế, đèn pha công nghệ tiên tiến cao, điều khiển giảm xóc bằng hệ thống treo cao cấp magic toàn thân control, tiết kiệm chi phí nguyên vật liệu, đèn led khác biệt, thu sóng truyền hình,… Đảm bảo mang tới cho người ngồi xe sự thoải mái và dễ chịu tuyệt đối. Mercedes S – Class 2019 cạnh tranh trực tiếp với dòng xe BMW 7 – Series, Audi A8 tại VN.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes S400l: 3,999 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá ô tô Mercedes S500l: 6,599 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá Mercedes S400 4Matic Coupe 2019: 6,099 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes S500 4MATIC Coupe: 10,479 tỷ đồng.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes – AMG S 63 4MATIC : Liên hệ
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes – AMG S 65: Liên hệ
♻️ Giá Mercedes S450 L Star 2019: 3,729 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá Mercedes S450 L 2019: 4,249 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá Mercedes S450 L Luxury 2019: 4,869 tỷ đồng
♻️ Giá Mercedes Maybach S450 4Matic 2019: 7,369 tỷ việt nam đồng
♻️ Giá Mercedes Maybach S560 4Matic 2019:11,099 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá Mercedes Maybach S650 2019: 14,899 tỷ đồng
✔️ Mercedes Benz A-Class
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Thiết kế của chiếc A-Class trẻ trung và tân tiến, thậm chí gợi nhiều cảm hứng, cản trước & cản sau mạnh bạo, ba dòng trang bị & thiết kế không giống nhau, một gói thiết kế tùy chọn cũng như những vật liệu, màu sắc & bánh xe hợp kim mới đều hấp dẫn. Bạn cần phải kinh ngạc với thiết kế thể thao, tươi tắn và rất chất của A-Class. A-Class là sự hòa trộn giữa cảm xúc & đậm cá tính & đây còn là 1 trong điểm nổi bật mới trong phân khúc xe gọn gàng. A-Class sẽ thể hiện cá tính của bạn. Đối thủ liên đới của Mercedes A – Class là Infiniti Q30.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes A200 2019 : 1,339 tỷ VNĐ.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes A250 2019: 1,699 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes AMG A45 4MATIC: 2,249 tỷ VNĐ
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✔️ Mercedes Benz CLA Class
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Mercedes CLA – Class thuộc dòng Combat Sedan độc đáo và khác biệt nhất của Mercedes được thiết kế theo phong cách Coupe phong cách, thời trang, thể thao, đầy đậm chất ngầu, hướng về khách hàng giới trẻ thành đạt, năng động. Đối thủ cạnh tranh trực tiếp của CLA – Class là Audi TT Sportback.
♻️ Giá Mercedes CLA 200: 1,529 tỷ VNĐ.
♻️ Giá Mercedes CLA 250: 1,869 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá Mercedes CLA 250 4MATIC: 1,949 tỷ đồng.
♻️ Giá Mercedes AMG CLA 45 4MATIC: 2,329 tỷ VNĐ
✔️ Mercedes Benz GLA Class
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cùng với A – Class, Coupe 4 cửa CLA – Class thì SUV cỡ nhỏ GLA – Class hướng đến các bạn trẻ thành đạt, năng động, đam mê sự phá cách. Phiên bản GLA 45 công bố trại VIMS 2017 là bản tăng cấp sở hữu động cơ 4 xi-lanh mạnh nhất thế giới với công suất lên tới mức 381 mã lực. Mô-men xoắn cực lớn đạt 475 Nm ngay từ vòng tua 2.250 vòng/phút giúp xe bứt tốc tức thì theo từng lần chạm ga, bức tốc lên 100km/h chỉ trong 4,4s.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLA 200 2019: 1,619 tỷ VND.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLA 250 4MATIC 2019: 1,859 tỷ VND.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes AMG GLA 45 4MATIC 2019 : 2,399 tỷ VND
✔️ Mercedes Benz GLB Class
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Mercedes Benz GLB Class được coi là dòng Suv/Crossover hạng nhỏ (compact) hoàn toàn mới được chào làng vào thời điểm tháng 6 năm 2019. Tuy là dòng xe nằm chen giữa GLA Class & GLC Class nhưng GLB có phiên bản 7 chỗ ngồi rất thức thời. Không ổn định có 2 phiên bản là GLB 200 và GLB 250 4matic. Động cơ dung tích 2.0l công suất 221Hp cùng hộp số tự động 8 cấp DCT.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLB: Liên hệ
✔️ Mercedes Benz GLC Class
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Mẫu xe thể thao đa dụng mới của Mercedes thành lập nhằm sửa chữa thay thế cho dòng GLK Lúc Này. Tên thường gọi GLC được sử dụng cho xe thể thao đa dụng mới của Mercedes-Benz muốn hướng người dùng liên tưởng đến dòng C-Class sedan Hiện tại. Một trong những cụ thể thiết kế của GLC - Class kha khá giống với C-Class. Đầu xe tương đồng ở cách thiết kế cụm đèn pha, đèn LED chạy ban ngày & lưới tản nhiệt. Phần đuôi GLC lấy cảm xúc thiết kế từ dòng GLE coupe. Diện mạo đuôi xe trên GLC thể thao hơn so với thế hệ GLK trước đây. Xét về tổng thể và toàn diện, GLC mang kiểu dáng thướt tha hơn so với sự cứng cáp trên GLK. Kích thước của GLC lớn hơn GLK ở cả chiều dài, rộng & cao. Vì vậy, diện tích sử dụng phía bên trong cabin xe cũng thoải mái hơn. Người lái xe sẽ cảm nhận được sự thoáng đãng, trong lúc người ngồi ở hàng ghế sau có không gian để chân rộng rãi. Diện tích S cốp chứa đồ phía đằng sau cũng to hơn. Phiên bản GLC300 sử dụng động cơ 4 xi-lanh, 2,0 lít, tăng áp, công năng 241 mã lực & mô-men xoắn cực lớn 370 Nm, đi cùng hộp số tự động hóa 9 cấp, kèm theo tùy chọn hệ dẫn động cầu sau khoặc dẫn động 4 bánh 4Matic. Không những thế, Mercedes-Benz còn tung ra những phiên bản GLC250 4matic, GLC200 cầu sau RWD với các mức giá rẻ hơn.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLC 200 2019: 1,699 tỷ đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLC 250 4MATIC 2019: 1,989 tỷ việt nam đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLC 300 AMG 2019: 2,289 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLC 300 4MATIC Coupe 2019: 2,949 tỷ đồng
♻️ Giá Mercedes AMG GLC 43 4MATIC 2019: 3,599 tỷ VNĐ
✔️ Mercedes Benz GLE Class
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thế kỷ mới GLE Class đã chính thức trình làng tại nước ta nhân event triển lãm VietNam Motor Show tháng 10/2019. Thế hệ GLE trọn vẹn mới (V167) thiết đặt nên các chuẩn mực vượt trội về công nghệ, quản lý (đặc biệt là động cơ EQ Boost trọn vẹn mới), kề bên giá trị cốt lõi là năng lực chuyên môn đi địa hình siêu việt. Tạm thời chỉ có một cấu hình là Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 4Matic, được nhập khẩu nguyên chiếc từ Mỹ. GLE Class cạnh tranh đối đầu với các đối thủ như Audi Q7, BMW X5, Lexus RX...
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLE 450 4MATIC 2020: 4,369 tỷ đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLE 400 4MATIC SUV 2019: 3,599 tỷ VNĐ.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLE 400 4MATIC Exclusive SUV: 3,899 tỷ VNĐ.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLE 400 4MATIC Coupe: 4,129 tỷ đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes AMG GLE 43 4MATIC Coupe: 4,559 tỷ việt nam đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes AMG GLE 63 4MATIC: 9,339 tỷ việt nam đồng
✔️ Mercedes Benz GLS Class
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Mercedes GLS – Class vừa mới chuyển đổi từ GL – Class đậm nét thể thao hơn có tất cả 4 dòng là GLS 350 CDI 4MATIC, GLS 400 4MATIC, GLS 500 4MATIC, & phiên bản cao cấp AMG GLS 63 4MATIC. Đây thuộc dòng xe 7 chỗ với động cơ trẻ khỏe, V6 ( GLS 400 4MATIC, GLS 350 4MATIC), V8 ( GLS 500 4MATIC), giúp xe vượt qua những cung đường gian nan nhất, với tất cả địa hình trắc trở mà không phải lo lắng về độ dằn xóc, hay tiếng ồn trong xe. Đối thủ cạnh tranh của Mercedes GLS – Class là BMW X7, Lexus LX 570
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLS 350 CDI 4MATIC: 4,209 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLS 400 4MATIC: 4,599 tỷ đồng.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes GLS 500 4MATIC : 7,829 tỷ việt nam đồng.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes AMG GLS 63 4MATIC: 11,949 tỷ việt nam đồng.
✔️ Mercedes Benz G-Class
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Mercedes AMG G-Class thế hệ mới chính thức trình làng vào tháng 2/2018. Tất cả những phiên bản G-Class mới, từ bản G 350 CDI Professional, G 500 Edition 35 đến AMG G 63 & AMG G 65, đều được Mercedes gia tăng 16% về công năng & giảm lượng tiêu hao nhiên liệu. G 500 được trang bị động cơ V8 4.0L Biturbo mới và các động cơ đáp ứng chuẩn mức khí thải Euro 6. Những cải tiến khác là hệ thống treo mới, cùng theo với khối hệ thống điều khiển ESP nhanh nhạy hơn giúp gia tăng độ không thay đổi, đáng tin cậy và tiện nghi khi quản lý. Ngoại thất và nội thất xe được kiểm soát và điều chỉnh nhưng hiếm hoi khác hoàn toàn.
♻️ Mercedes AMG G63 2019: 10,620 tỷ việt nam đồng.
✔️ Mercedes Benz V-Class
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ưu thế nhất của Mercedes-Benz V-Class chắc hẳn rằng đó là ở yếu tố công nghệ tiên tiến. Khối hệ thống giải trí đa phương tiện, điều khiển cảm ứng đa chức năng & công nghệ tiên tiến lái an toàn và đáng tin cậy được hãng sản xuất dẫn vào V-Class.
toàn bộ những phiên bản V-Class mới đều được trang bị một screen giữa trung tâm 7 inch kết hợp tác dụng vui chơi đa phương tiện đi lại trải qua khối hệ thống điều khiển touch pad văn minh – cũng giống như trong các sản phẩm mới dòng C-Class. Hệ thống định vị Comand trực tuyến, trình duyệt Internet không dây liên kết nóng, ổ cứng dung tích 80GB, liên kết điện thoại cảm ứng thông minh & TV tuner.
Bảng tinh chỉnh trung tâm của V-Class lung linh đến mức khiến bạn ngỡ như mình đang ngồi trong một chiếc Mercedes-Benz E-Class & S-Class. Vật liệu da cao cấp, chỗ ngồi dễ chịu, khoảng không để chân thoáng rộng, đảm bảo khách hàng cảm xúc dễ chịu và thoải mái mặc dù phải trải qua những chuyến hành trình dài.
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes V 220 CDI AVANTGARDE: 2,569 tỷ VNĐ
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes V 250 AVANTGARDE: 2,569 tỷ việt nam đồng
♻️ Giá xe Mercedes Vito Turer 121 (MPV): 1,849 tỷ việt nam đồng
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ariffbhai · 5 years ago
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androgynousbelieverwinner · 6 years ago
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2020 Audi TTS Release Date
2020 Audi TTS Release Date
2020 Audi TTS Release Date – The fans of sports cars and the speedy journey will likely be delighted when they get that Audi is discovering their in the past utilizing its great-performance sports design, the famous TT S. The most recent TT S is prone to be successful the existing industry as a 2020 Audi TTSedition. The cover things in the prototype show only fine adjustments to the facelift.…
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jesusvasser · 6 years ago
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Porsche Controls the Future for Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini
It may be that all’s well that ends well, but at this point, it is difficult to predict what shape the end will assume. The “end,” in this case, is the point in time when the reorganization of the VW group’s luxury and sports car division, as masterminded by Porsche, is complete and fully functional.
The plan is for Porsche to coordinate the future activities (and to control the flow of revenues) of Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti. The marques will share architectures and componentry, and pool their efforts to address essential challenges like electrification, digitalization, and autonomous driving.
In the wake of this major strategic revision, Porsche has announced that it intends to cut costs at a rate of $2.3 billion per year until 2022. The money saved will be instantly reinvested in new technologies most of which happen to have a low return on investment. The key efficiency gains will be had in improvements to research and development, procurement, and production.
OLD TROOPERS AND THE NEW GUARD FIGHT IT OUT The premium brands are run by Bram Schot (who replaced Rupert Stadler at Audi), Oliver Blume (Porsche), Adrian Hallmark (who took over from Wolfgang Dürheimer at Bentley) and Stephan Winkelmann (Bugatti).
The dark horse on the management carousel is Peter Duesmann who will join VW when his retention period expires in summer 2020. The ex-BMW top manager has three options: he could replace a potentially underperforming Bram Schot at Audi, he could become COO of the VW group, or he could step in for Oliver Blume at Porsche.
As always, the strings are going to be pulled by the supervisory board, which is controlled by the Porsche and Piech families. In a rare show of agreement, they want to promote Porsche chairman Blume to the board of the VW group. Blume’s successor may be Duesmann, who has a strong motorsport track record and is a dyed-in-the-wool car guy. Schot is said to be safe in his position at Audi at the moment, but he must get the brand back in shape—or the board will find a new number one.
HOW NOT TO HANDLE A LUXURY BRAND From Wolfsburg’s vantage point, Audi is a potential future casualty—not least because of Dieselgate—but right now the biggest problem child is Bentley. According to a German business weekly, the Bentley boys are currently losing nearly $20,000 on every vehicle sold. In the first half of 2018, losses amounted to more than $90 million as sales fell by 15 percent. If Adrian Hallmark increases the marque’s annual output from about 10,500 to 15,000 units, he would likely only repeat the mistakes made by every Bentley boss since the departure of Franz-Josef Paefgen. Volume is a blessing and a curse for every luxury brand. Flooding the dealers with hard-to-sell stock, counter-productive rapid-succession facelifts, embarrassing design issues (Bentayga, Mulsanne), and a total lack of low-emissions engines, hybrids, or electric vehicles is bound to stifle demand, ruin resale values, and put an emphasis on the “olde” in Bentley’s olde worlde brand image. The fact that Audi is not getting its act together in terms of Crewe-bound future-emissions-ready engines only adds insult to injury.
BUGATTI IS BACK ON TRACK—WITH A VENGEANCE Perhaps messieurs Winterkorn, Müller, or Diess should have put Stephan Winkelmann in charge of the Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini triplets, and made Oliver Blume run the Audi & Porsche Show.
Winkelmann is feared for his crackdown management style, the ruthless pursuit of a chosen target, and his egocentric personality. But let´s face it: Lamborghini owes what it is today to the fit and fashion-conscious tri-lingual Berlin-born jack-of-all-trades. Although his interregnum at Audi Sport lasted only a year, he kicked off three projects that may put the rudderless appendix back on track. At Bugatti, he stepped in for Wolfgang Dürheimer whose legacy was the amazing Chiron. Instead of leaning back and watching 70 cars a year leave les ateliers in Molsheim, Winkelmann once again switched to attack mode. The Divo, to be built by Italdesign, was his first attention-grabbing product, and there will be more.
Insiders are expecting a limited run of aerodynamically advanced lightweight Superleggeras, an even more track-oriented Chiron SS, and a completely re-skinned targa-top Chiron Aperta. In addition, Bugatti is reportedly pondering an all-electric high-end model, which may materialize in cooperation with Porsche, Rimac, and Dallara.
A DARK HORSE BY THE NAME OF LAMBORGHINI Rumor has it that Lamborghini will soon be transferred from Audi ownership to the luxury and sport division masterminded by Porsche. The ambitious completion date is Jan 1, 2019. If the tall legal hurdles posed by Italian corporate law can be overcome, Ducati Enterprises would be the new holding company representing the group’s remaining interests in Italy. Stefano Domenicali who used to run Ferrari’s F1 team, remains Lamborghini chairman with Maurizio Reggiani as his CTO. The revised game plan caught Audi and Lamborghini with surprise—and at a critical point in time for the Raging Bull’s future product portfolio.
You see, the Italians had hoped to complete the Aventador and Huracán replacements before the Zuffenhausen bean counters could intervene. Since both models were to share their monofuselage carbon fiber architecture, the ragazzi from Sant’Agata would have been all but untouchable by Porsche’s synergy-creating aspirations for the next ten years. Will that happen? Possibly.
Although the next-generation Aventador has been pushed back to 2022, the project is thought to be too far down the road to be revoked. It’s a wild-looking thing, overtly aggressive and expressively stylish, a badass wedge adorned with plenty of trademark Y symbols. The modular monofuselage can be divided in three elements: the front axle driven by two electric motors, the backbone center section that houses the batteries, and the drivetrain assembly comprising V-12 engine, new dual-clutch Getrag transmission, third e-motor, and rear suspension.
Still normally aspirated, the modified V-12 will be good for around 770 hp. Add 300 kW (402 hp) of electric power, and you’re looking at nearly 1,200 hp without pulling out all the stops. Since there is no way this monster machine DNA can be integrated in a rival VW group architecture, the flagship will almost certainly proceed as planned.
A similar carbon fiber layout is in the works for the next Huracán, which also remains faithful to its non-turbo engine. The upgraded 5.2-liter V-10 is said to be good for 650 hp. Thanks to a 250 kW (335 hp) electric power boost, Lamborghini’s AWD bestseller should be able to keep up with the Ferrari 488.
It will, however, be important to come to grips with the weight penalty caused by energy cells, motors, and performance electronics. In addition, the monofuselage hardware is still way over budget, and there are no obvious scale effects with respect to Audi and Porsche.
So what to do? Right now, the decision makers are looking at two alternatives. Option one is to keep Huracán in lock-step with the R8, but this approach works only if Audi actually wants a new R8, and if this R8 comes with a watertight business case. Option two is to create a new aluminum-intensive modular multi-brand sports car architecture to open up a broader scope of opportunities. The latter route may be the most likely.
ADVANCED GERMAN ENGINEERING AT A CROSSROADS Internally known as Mimo II, this electrified lightweight structure would be developed by Porsche for the repeatedly delayed Ferrari 488 fighter known as the 960. The same Mimo II architecture could also see use in the future Huracán and the R8 replacement, with expectations of a 650-hp V-8 PHEV powertrain. Electrification is the catchword here. You see, Mimo II is flexible enough to cater for ICE, HEV, PHEV, and BEV applications.
To keep complexity at bay, we hear that the J1 platform prepared for the Porsche Taycan will, for cost reasons, remain a one-off, which is another way of saying that it and any successor are all but dead for group use. The rumored SPAZ and SPE future architectures may share a similar fate, since the research and development wizards reckon that the existing MMB/MHB platforms can be electrified at relatively little expense. In essence, this would leave the group with three premium components sets: PPE/PPC for larger cars and SUVs; Monofuselage or Mimo for high-performance sports cars; and MMB/MHB evo for Cayman and 911.
Audi may replace the R8 with one of three options, including an all-electric PB18-inspired car, a Huracán II derivative, or a Mimo II-based sports car, but since no decision has been made, we’re not going to see anything in the flesh before 2022.
Alternatively, the R8 could simply go away. An intriguing, equally unconfirmed alternative is the recreation of the iconic Ur-Quattro, which could be a synthesis of the many show cars Audi has devoted to this theme. Another possibility is said to be a limited-edition supercar described as a TT RS on steroids. Radically aggressive in appearance and fitted with a 500-hp-plus five-cylinder turbo engine, this 2+2-seater may indeed have what it takes to replace the R8.
Yet another alternative is an ultra-lightweight high-performance two-seater halo car, assembled by a coachbuilder at no more than 500 units in total—think super-R8. Last but not least, there is the striking zero-emission 400-kW (536 hp) Audi e-tron GT shooting brake, which shares its genetic material with the Porsche Taycan and the Bentley Barnato—though remember our previous caveat about the viability of the J1 architecture.
Lamborghini will add an Urus plug-in hybrid in 2020 and facelift the Urus in 2022. There will be no Urus coupé, but we do expect an Urus Performante range-topper. What about a fourth model range? Not in the foreseeable future. The closest thing to a fourth Lambo was the 2008 Estoque, which ticked all the boxes when there was still a market for ultra-high-performance saloons.
If Lamborghini ever does extend its line-up, it will probably by a potent four-seater, two-door, Espada-style luxury GT based on the upcoming PPE/PPC platform. Beyond that, the folks in Sant’Agata are still keen on extreme one-offs like Egoista and Terzo Millenio; exclusive, tailor-made editions of no more than 20 units such as Veneno and Sesto Elemento; and limited-edition hypercars like the Aventador SVJ. Currently in the works are said to be a Paris-Dakar Huracán and a de-contented rear-wheel drive Aventador Ultima.
Porsche is about to release the next 911, dubbed 992. Originally, this was meant to be the final iteration of the MHB toolkit, but since the 992 architecture can accommodate PHEV componentry, we would not be surprised to see it live on in modified form. While the 992 retains the classic rear-engine layout, the still-pending 960 would be a mid-engine coupé featuring a six-cylinder boxer and a 200-kW (268-hp) electric front-wheel drive system.
Although Porsche has allegedly signed off the Boxster/Cayman replacement (codenamed 983), it’s another low-margin project because the segment is in free fall. We hear that 983 is package-protected for a straight-five engine in case Audi feels like replacing the TT with a proper sports car.
Rumor also has it that Porsche is investigating an all-electric sports car scenario. Derived from the MMB components set, there is talk of a neo-Cayman E (two motors good for 400 hp, 100-kWh battery) and a neo-919 E (three motors rated at 600 hp, 125 kWh battery).
IN HINDSIGHT, YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS WISER While Porsche’s return on investment is second only to Ferrari, Audi is seriously overstaffed and worryingly over budget. Would it not have made more sense to put Audi and Porsche together in one cooperative group, while creating a separate, partly autonomous subdivision for Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini?
Audi and Porsche are the biggest earners within the VW group, and already share heavily in terms of technology and development. In a nutshell, Audi needs Porsche more than Porsche needs Audi, but they still both need each other.
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Porsche Controls the Future for Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini
It may be that all’s well that ends well, but at this point, it is difficult to predict what shape the end will assume. The “end,” in this case, is the point in time when the reorganization of the VW group’s luxury and sports car division, as masterminded by Porsche, is complete and fully functional.
The plan is for Porsche to coordinate the future activities (and to control the flow of revenues) of Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti. The marques will share architectures and componentry, and pool their efforts to address essential challenges like electrification, digitalization, and autonomous driving.
In the wake of this major strategic revision, Porsche has announced that it intends to cut costs at a rate of $2.3 billion per year until 2022. The money saved will be instantly reinvested in new technologies most of which happen to have a low return on investment. The key efficiency gains will be had in improvements to research and development, procurement, and production.
OLD TROOPERS AND THE NEW GUARD FIGHT IT OUT The premium brands are run by Bram Schot (who replaced Rupert Stadler at Audi), Oliver Blume (Porsche), Adrian Hallmark (who took over from Wolfgang Dürheimer at Bentley) and Stephan Winkelmann (Bugatti).
The dark horse on the management carousel is Peter Duesmann who will join VW when his retention period expires in summer 2020. The ex-BMW top manager has three options: he could replace a potentially underperforming Bram Schot at Audi, he could become COO of the VW group, or he could step in for Oliver Blume at Porsche.
As always, the strings are going to be pulled by the supervisory board, which is controlled by the Porsche and Piech families. In a rare show of agreement, they want to promote Porsche chairman Blume to the board of the VW group. Blume’s successor may be Duesmann, who has a strong motorsport track record and is a dyed-in-the-wool car guy. Schot is said to be safe in his position at Audi at the moment, but he must get the brand back in shape—or the board will find a new number one.
HOW NOT TO HANDLE A LUXURY BRAND From Wolfsburg’s vantage point, Audi is a potential future casualty—not least because of Dieselgate—but right now the biggest problem child is Bentley. According to a German business weekly, the Bentley boys are currently losing nearly $20,000 on every vehicle sold. In the first half of 2018, losses amounted to more than $90 million as sales fell by 15 percent. If Adrian Hallmark increases the marque’s annual output from about 10,500 to 15,000 units, he would likely only repeat the mistakes made by every Bentley boss since the departure of Franz-Josef Paefgen. Volume is a blessing and a curse for every luxury brand. Flooding the dealers with hard-to-sell stock, counter-productive rapid-succession facelifts, embarrassing design issues (Bentayga, Mulsanne), and a total lack of low-emissions engines, hybrids, or electric vehicles is bound to stifle demand, ruin resale values, and put an emphasis on the “olde” in Bentley’s olde worlde brand image. The fact that Audi is not getting its act together in terms of Crewe-bound future-emissions-ready engines only adds insult to injury.
BUGATTI IS BACK ON TRACK—WITH A VENGEANCE Perhaps messieurs Winterkorn, Müller, or Diess should have put Stephan Winkelmann in charge of the Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini triplets, and made Oliver Blume run the Audi & Porsche Show.
Winkelmann is feared for his crackdown management style, the ruthless pursuit of a chosen target, and his egocentric personality. But let´s face it: Lamborghini owes what it is today to the fit and fashion-conscious tri-lingual Berlin-born jack-of-all-trades. Although his interregnum at Audi Sport lasted only a year, he kicked off three projects that may put the rudderless appendix back on track. At Bugatti, he stepped in for Wolfgang Dürheimer whose legacy was the amazing Chiron. Instead of leaning back and watching 70 cars a year leave les ateliers in Molsheim, Winkelmann once again switched to attack mode. The Divo, to be built by Italdesign, was his first attention-grabbing product, and there will be more.
Insiders are expecting a limited run of aerodynamically advanced lightweight Superleggeras, an even more track-oriented Chiron SS, and a completely re-skinned targa-top Chiron Aperta. In addition, Bugatti is reportedly pondering an all-electric high-end model, which may materialize in cooperation with Porsche, Rimac, and Dallara.
A DARK HORSE BY THE NAME OF LAMBORGHINI Rumor has it that Lamborghini will soon be transferred from Audi ownership to the luxury and sport division masterminded by Porsche. The ambitious completion date is Jan 1, 2019. If the tall legal hurdles posed by Italian corporate law can be overcome, Ducati Enterprises would be the new holding company representing the group’s remaining interests in Italy. Stefano Domenicali who used to run Ferrari’s F1 team, remains Lamborghini chairman with Maurizio Reggiani as his CTO. The revised game plan caught Audi and Lamborghini with surprise—and at a critical point in time for the Raging Bull’s future product portfolio.
You see, the Italians had hoped to complete the Aventador and Huracán replacements before the Zuffenhausen bean counters could intervene. Since both models were to share their monofuselage carbon fiber architecture, the ragazzi from Sant’Agata would have been all but untouchable by Porsche’s synergy-creating aspirations for the next ten years. Will that happen? Possibly.
Although the next-generation Aventador has been pushed back to 2022, the project is thought to be too far down the road to be revoked. It’s a wild-looking thing, overtly aggressive and expressively stylish, a badass wedge adorned with plenty of trademark Y symbols. The modular monofuselage can be divided in three elements: the front axle driven by two electric motors, the backbone center section that houses the batteries, and the drivetrain assembly comprising V-12 engine, new dual-clutch Getrag transmission, third e-motor, and rear suspension.
Still normally aspirated, the modified V-12 will be good for around 770 hp. Add 300 kW (402 hp) of electric power, and you’re looking at nearly 1,200 hp without pulling out all the stops. Since there is no way this monster machine DNA can be integrated in a rival VW group architecture, the flagship will almost certainly proceed as planned.
A similar carbon fiber layout is in the works for the next Huracán, which also remains faithful to its non-turbo engine. The upgraded 5.2-liter V-10 is said to be good for 650 hp. Thanks to a 250 kW (335 hp) electric power boost, Lamborghini’s AWD bestseller should be able to keep up with the Ferrari 488.
It will, however, be important to come to grips with the weight penalty caused by energy cells, motors, and performance electronics. In addition, the monofuselage hardware is still way over budget, and there are no obvious scale effects with respect to Audi and Porsche.
So what to do? Right now, the decision makers are looking at two alternatives. Option one is to keep Huracán in lock-step with the R8, but this approach works only if Audi actually wants a new R8, and if this R8 comes with a watertight business case. Option two is to create a new aluminum-intensive modular multi-brand sports car architecture to open up a broader scope of opportunities. The latter route may be the most likely.
ADVANCED GERMAN ENGINEERING AT A CROSSROADS Internally known as Mimo II, this electrified lightweight structure would be developed by Porsche for the repeatedly delayed Ferrari 488 fighter known as the 960. The same Mimo II architecture could also see use in the future Huracán and the R8 replacement, with expectations of a 650-hp V-8 PHEV powertrain. Electrification is the catchword here. You see, Mimo II is flexible enough to cater for ICE, HEV, PHEV, and BEV applications.
To keep complexity at bay, we hear that the J1 platform prepared for the Porsche Taycan will, for cost reasons, remain a one-off, which is another way of saying that it and any successor are all but dead for group use. The rumored SPAZ and SPE future architectures may share a similar fate, since the research and development wizards reckon that the existing MMB/MHB platforms can be electrified at relatively little expense. In essence, this would leave the group with three premium components sets: PPE/PPC for larger cars and SUVs; Monofuselage or Mimo for high-performance sports cars; and MMB/MHB evo for Cayman and 911.
Audi may replace the R8 with one of three options, including an all-electric PB18-inspired car, a Huracán II derivative, or a Mimo II-based sports car, but since no decision has been made, we’re not going to see anything in the flesh before 2022.
Alternatively, the R8 could simply go away. An intriguing, equally unconfirmed alternative is the recreation of the iconic Ur-Quattro, which could be a synthesis of the many show cars Audi has devoted to this theme. Another possibility is said to be a limited-edition supercar described as a TT RS on steroids. Radically aggressive in appearance and fitted with a 500-hp-plus five-cylinder turbo engine, this 2+2-seater may indeed have what it takes to replace the R8.
Yet another alternative is an ultra-lightweight high-performance two-seater halo car, assembled by a coachbuilder at no more than 500 units in total—think super-R8. Last but not least, there is the striking zero-emission 400-kW (536 hp) Audi e-tron GT shooting brake, which shares its genetic material with the Porsche Taycan and the Bentley Barnato—though remember our previous caveat about the viability of the J1 architecture.
Lamborghini will add an Urus plug-in hybrid in 2020 and facelift the Urus in 2022. There will be no Urus coupé, but we do expect an Urus Performante range-topper. What about a fourth model range? Not in the foreseeable future. The closest thing to a fourth Lambo was the 2008 Estoque, which ticked all the boxes when there was still a market for ultra-high-performance saloons.
If Lamborghini ever does extend its line-up, it will probably by a potent four-seater, two-door, Espada-style luxury GT based on the upcoming PPE/PPC platform. Beyond that, the folks in Sant’Agata are still keen on extreme one-offs like Egoista and Terzo Millenio; exclusive, tailor-made editions of no more than 20 units such as Veneno and Sesto Elemento; and limited-edition hypercars like the Aventador SVJ. Currently in the works are said to be a Paris-Dakar Huracán and a de-contented rear-wheel drive Aventador Ultima.
Porsche is about to release the next 911, dubbed 992. Originally, this was meant to be the final iteration of the MHB toolkit, but since the 992 architecture can accommodate PHEV componentry, we would not be surprised to see it live on in modified form. While the 992 retains the classic rear-engine layout, the still-pending 960 would be a mid-engine coupé featuring a six-cylinder boxer and a 200-kW (268-hp) electric front-wheel drive system.
Although Porsche has allegedly signed off the Boxster/Cayman replacement (codenamed 983), it’s another low-margin project because the segment is in free fall. We hear that 983 is package-protected for a straight-five engine in case Audi feels like replacing the TT with a proper sports car.
Rumor also has it that Porsche is investigating an all-electric sports car scenario. Derived from the MMB components set, there is talk of a neo-Cayman E (two motors good for 400 hp, 100-kWh battery) and a neo-919 E (three motors rated at 600 hp, 125 kWh battery).
IN HINDSIGHT, YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS WISER While Porsche’s return on investment is second only to Ferrari, Audi is seriously overstaffed and worryingly over budget. Would it not have made more sense to put Audi and Porsche together in one cooperative group, while creating a separate, partly autonomous subdivision for Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini?
Audi and Porsche are the biggest earners within the VW group, and already share heavily in terms of technology and development. In a nutshell, Audi needs Porsche more than Porsche needs Audi, but they still both need each other.
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Porsche Controls the Future for Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini
It may be that all’s well that ends well, but at this point, it is difficult to predict what shape the end will assume. The “end,” in this case, is the point in time when the reorganization of the VW group’s luxury and sports car division, as masterminded by Porsche, is complete and fully functional.
The plan is for Porsche to coordinate the future activities (and to control the flow of revenues) of Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti. The marques will share architectures and componentry, and pool their efforts to address essential challenges like electrification, digitalization, and autonomous driving.
In the wake of this major strategic revision, Porsche has announced that it intends to cut costs at a rate of $2.3 billion per year until 2022. The money saved will be instantly reinvested in new technologies most of which happen to have a low return on investment. The key efficiency gains will be had in improvements to research and development, procurement, and production.
OLD TROOPERS AND THE NEW GUARD FIGHT IT OUT The premium brands are run by Bram Schot (who replaced Rupert Stadler at Audi), Oliver Blume (Porsche), Adrian Hallmark (who took over from Wolfgang Dürheimer at Bentley) and Stephan Winkelmann (Bugatti).
The dark horse on the management carousel is Peter Duesmann who will join VW when his retention period expires in summer 2020. The ex-BMW top manager has three options: he could replace a potentially underperforming Bram Schot at Audi, he could become COO of the VW group, or he could step in for Oliver Blume at Porsche.
As always, the strings are going to be pulled by the supervisory board, which is controlled by the Porsche and Piech families. In a rare show of agreement, they want to promote Porsche chairman Blume to the board of the VW group. Blume’s successor may be Duesmann, who has a strong motorsport track record and is a dyed-in-the-wool car guy. Schot is said to be safe in his position at Audi at the moment, but he must get the brand back in shape—or the board will find a new number one.
HOW NOT TO HANDLE A LUXURY BRAND From Wolfsburg’s vantage point, Audi is a potential future casualty—not least because of Dieselgate—but right now the biggest problem child is Bentley. According to a German business weekly, the Bentley boys are currently losing nearly $20,000 on every vehicle sold. In the first half of 2018, losses amounted to more than $90 million as sales fell by 15 percent. If Adrian Hallmark increases the marque’s annual output from about 10,500 to 15,000 units, he would likely only repeat the mistakes made by every Bentley boss since the departure of Franz-Josef Paefgen. Volume is a blessing and a curse for every luxury brand. Flooding the dealers with hard-to-sell stock, counter-productive rapid-succession facelifts, embarrassing design issues (Bentayga, Mulsanne), and a total lack of low-emissions engines, hybrids, or electric vehicles is bound to stifle demand, ruin resale values, and put an emphasis on the “olde” in Bentley’s olde worlde brand image. The fact that Audi is not getting its act together in terms of Crewe-bound future-emissions-ready engines only adds insult to injury.
BUGATTI IS BACK ON TRACK—WITH A VENGEANCE Perhaps messieurs Winterkorn, Müller, or Diess should have put Stephan Winkelmann in charge of the Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini triplets, and made Oliver Blume run the Audi & Porsche Show.
Winkelmann is feared for his crackdown management style, the ruthless pursuit of a chosen target, and his egocentric personality. But let´s face it: Lamborghini owes what it is today to the fit and fashion-conscious tri-lingual Berlin-born jack-of-all-trades. Although his interregnum at Audi Sport lasted only a year, he kicked off three projects that may put the rudderless appendix back on track. At Bugatti, he stepped in for Wolfgang Dürheimer whose legacy was the amazing Chiron. Instead of leaning back and watching 70 cars a year leave les ateliers in Molsheim, Winkelmann once again switched to attack mode. The Divo, to be built by Italdesign, was his first attention-grabbing product, and there will be more.
Insiders are expecting a limited run of aerodynamically advanced lightweight Superleggeras, an even more track-oriented Chiron SS, and a completely re-skinned targa-top Chiron Aperta. In addition, Bugatti is reportedly pondering an all-electric high-end model, which may materialize in cooperation with Porsche, Rimac, and Dallara.
A DARK HORSE BY THE NAME OF LAMBORGHINI Rumor has it that Lamborghini will soon be transferred from Audi ownership to the luxury and sport division masterminded by Porsche. The ambitious completion date is Jan 1, 2019. If the tall legal hurdles posed by Italian corporate law can be overcome, Ducati Enterprises would be the new holding company representing the group’s remaining interests in Italy. Stefano Domenicali who used to run Ferrari’s F1 team, remains Lamborghini chairman with Maurizio Reggiani as his CTO. The revised game plan caught Audi and Lamborghini with surprise—and at a critical point in time for the Raging Bull’s future product portfolio.
You see, the Italians had hoped to complete the Aventador and Huracán replacements before the Zuffenhausen bean counters could intervene. Since both models were to share their monofuselage carbon fiber architecture, the ragazzi from Sant’Agata would have been all but untouchable by Porsche’s synergy-creating aspirations for the next ten years. Will that happen? Possibly.
Although the next-generation Aventador has been pushed back to 2022, the project is thought to be too far down the road to be revoked. It’s a wild-looking thing, overtly aggressive and expressively stylish, a badass wedge adorned with plenty of trademark Y symbols. The modular monofuselage can be divided in three elements: the front axle driven by two electric motors, the backbone center section that houses the batteries, and the drivetrain assembly comprising V-12 engine, new dual-clutch Getrag transmission, third e-motor, and rear suspension.
Still normally aspirated, the modified V-12 will be good for around 770 hp. Add 300 kW (402 hp) of electric power, and you’re looking at nearly 1,200 hp without pulling out all the stops. Since there is no way this monster machine DNA can be integrated in a rival VW group architecture, the flagship will almost certainly proceed as planned.
A similar carbon fiber layout is in the works for the next Huracán, which also remains faithful to its non-turbo engine. The upgraded 5.2-liter V-10 is said to be good for 650 hp. Thanks to a 250 kW (335 hp) electric power boost, Lamborghini’s AWD bestseller should be able to keep up with the Ferrari 488.
It will, however, be important to come to grips with the weight penalty caused by energy cells, motors, and performance electronics. In addition, the monofuselage hardware is still way over budget, and there are no obvious scale effects with respect to Audi and Porsche.
So what to do? Right now, the decision makers are looking at two alternatives. Option one is to keep Huracán in lock-step with the R8, but this approach works only if Audi actually wants a new R8, and if this R8 comes with a watertight business case. Option two is to create a new aluminum-intensive modular multi-brand sports car architecture to open up a broader scope of opportunities. The latter route may be the most likely.
ADVANCED GERMAN ENGINEERING AT A CROSSROADS Internally known as Mimo II, this electrified lightweight structure would be developed by Porsche for the repeatedly delayed Ferrari 488 fighter known as the 960. The same Mimo II architecture could also see use in the future Huracán and the R8 replacement, with expectations of a 650-hp V-8 PHEV powertrain. Electrification is the catchword here. You see, Mimo II is flexible enough to cater for ICE, HEV, PHEV, and BEV applications.
To keep complexity at bay, we hear that the J1 platform prepared for the Porsche Taycan will, for cost reasons, remain a one-off, which is another way of saying that it and any successor are all but dead for group use. The rumored SPAZ and SPE future architectures may share a similar fate, since the research and development wizards reckon that the existing MMB/MHB platforms can be electrified at relatively little expense. In essence, this would leave the group with three premium components sets: PPE/PPC for larger cars and SUVs; Monofuselage or Mimo for high-performance sports cars; and MMB/MHB evo for Cayman and 911.
Audi may replace the R8 with one of three options, including an all-electric PB18-inspired car, a Huracán II derivative, or a Mimo II-based sports car, but since no decision has been made, we’re not going to see anything in the flesh before 2022.
Alternatively, the R8 could simply go away. An intriguing, equally unconfirmed alternative is the recreation of the iconic Ur-Quattro, which could be a synthesis of the many show cars Audi has devoted to this theme. Another possibility is said to be a limited-edition supercar described as a TT RS on steroids. Radically aggressive in appearance and fitted with a 500-hp-plus five-cylinder turbo engine, this 2+2-seater may indeed have what it takes to replace the R8.
Yet another alternative is an ultra-lightweight high-performance two-seater halo car, assembled by a coachbuilder at no more than 500 units in total—think super-R8. Last but not least, there is the striking zero-emission 400-kW (536 hp) Audi e-tron GT shooting brake, which shares its genetic material with the Porsche Taycan and the Bentley Barnato—though remember our previous caveat about the viability of the J1 architecture.
Lamborghini will add an Urus plug-in hybrid in 2020 and facelift the Urus in 2022. There will be no Urus coupé, but we do expect an Urus Performante range-topper. What about a fourth model range? Not in the foreseeable future. The closest thing to a fourth Lambo was the 2008 Estoque, which ticked all the boxes when there was still a market for ultra-high-performance saloons.
If Lamborghini ever does extend its line-up, it will probably by a potent four-seater, two-door, Espada-style luxury GT based on the upcoming PPE/PPC platform. Beyond that, the folks in Sant’Agata are still keen on extreme one-offs like Egoista and Terzo Millenio; exclusive, tailor-made editions of no more than 20 units such as Veneno and Sesto Elemento; and limited-edition hypercars like the Aventador SVJ. Currently in the works are said to be a Paris-Dakar Huracán and a de-contented rear-wheel drive Aventador Ultima.
Porsche is about to release the next 911, dubbed 992. Originally, this was meant to be the final iteration of the MHB toolkit, but since the 992 architecture can accommodate PHEV componentry, we would not be surprised to see it live on in modified form. While the 992 retains the classic rear-engine layout, the still-pending 960 would be a mid-engine coupé featuring a six-cylinder boxer and a 200-kW (268-hp) electric front-wheel drive system.
Although Porsche has allegedly signed off the Boxster/Cayman replacement (codenamed 983), it’s another low-margin project because the segment is in free fall. We hear that 983 is package-protected for a straight-five engine in case Audi feels like replacing the TT with a proper sports car.
Rumor also has it that Porsche is investigating an all-electric sports car scenario. Derived from the MMB components set, there is talk of a neo-Cayman E (two motors good for 400 hp, 100-kWh battery) and a neo-919 E (three motors rated at 600 hp, 125 kWh battery).
IN HINDSIGHT, YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS WISER While Porsche’s return on investment is second only to Ferrari, Audi is seriously overstaffed and worryingly over budget. Would it not have made more sense to put Audi and Porsche together in one cooperative group, while creating a separate, partly autonomous subdivision for Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini?
Audi and Porsche are the biggest earners within the VW group, and already share heavily in terms of technology and development. In a nutshell, Audi needs Porsche more than Porsche needs Audi, but they still both need each other.
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2020 Audi TT RS Review, Specs, And Release Date
2020 Audi TT RS Review, Specs, And Release Date
2020 Audi TT RS Review, Specs, And Release Date – 2020 Audi TT RSwill be designed to complete the demand on its market and Audi started its debut during 2019 in American market. At this time, many people are anticipating the latest version as the second generation. It should be featured with the high-performance design. Although what we found is only rendered pictures, we think that there are…
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2020 Audi A5 Sportback 🔥 ______________________________________ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🌙 [9/10/19] #ACNAfterDark Somehow I forgot to include the Sportback in the updated A5 post so here it is: The facelifted 2020 A5 and S5 Sportback are here and bring loads of technological and mechanical changes so let’s dive in!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🏁 @Allcarnews Spec Sheet: So far we only have the European specifications so don’t worry US buyers! All four engines get a mild hybrid 48v system and the 2.0L Turbos start at 161HP, and around 188HP. (Another 2.0L Turbo should be coming with more power aswell) Then the Europeans lose the gas S5 and get the TDI 3.0L TwinTurbo diesel V6 making 342HP and 516 lb-ft of torque while US buyers will get a 3.0L TT V6 making 349HP and 369 lb-ft of torque. 🏁 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Outside of the new A5 line, Audi has fitted all new Matrix LED lights upfront and new LED taillights to give the car a more agressive look. Audi also has gone to slightly revise the design of the front and rear fascias! Inside is a major update as the old MMI system is OUT in place for the new 10.1in touchscreen and the 12.3in Virtual Cockpit. There are also new interior lighting options and up to 11 new exterior colors with that stunning District green being one of them. Info for the US markets should be coming soon! ________________________________________ ACN EXTRA: Keep in mind this is just a mid cycle refresh and not an “all new” car. ________________________________________ -Text by @allcarnews -Images by Audi ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #Audi #S5 #A5 #V6 #TDI #Quattro #RS5 #coupe #German #Sportback #carbon ||#powerful #performance #turbocharged #supercharged #Supercar An #allcarnews post https://www.instagram.com/p/B2VjWJ9hCOY/?igshid=541fpeu21079
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2020 Audi TT spy shots
Audi engineers have been spotted testing prototypes for a facelifted version of the TT sports car. The current TT is the third generation of the Audi icon and was introduced for 2016. We’re expecting the facelifted version to arrive in showrooms in early 2019, as a 2020 model. The camouflage gear on the prototype suggests only subtle tweaks... from PerformanceJunk WP Feed 3 http://ift.tt/2AzOsvl via IFTTT
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Audi engineers have been spotted testing prototypes for a facelifted version of the TT sports car. The current TT is the third generation of the Audi icon and was introduced for 2016. We’re expecting the facelifted version to arrive in showrooms in early 2019, as a 2020 model. The camouflage gear on the prototype suggests only subtle tweaks... Viknesh Vijayenthiran2020 Audi TT spy shots http://ift.tt/2AzOsvl
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European Consumers Are actually Boycotting British Vehicles, Points out Jaguar Land Rover Manager.
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Thus, they performed a rather big questionnaire on manies workers at Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk, asking them a little separated questions to observe just how they responded to the tip of driverless cars creating reliable choices on case of needs. That takes me to today's vehicle: the 2016 TT Sports car 2.0 t that Audi delivered techradar for evaluation. Tempo was straining being actually a great Christian female whereas Mark didn't share the exact same views as her. Good-looking, prosperous and also now a succe Kevin is actually having a hard time keeping up his standard vivacious personality - laid off, riding the bus since he was actually forced to sell his motorbike, responsible for on his rental fee, and today working at an auto wash. That being actually pointed out, twelve months does not build much credit rating deepness and I will recommend even more like 18-24 months before you think about investing. And while the pathway to little, active GT cars is actually paved with really good objectives and also called off jobs, one can not assist presuming that this GT principle ought to have an also opportunity from being actually created. Android Car is actually additionally a bit smarter due to its customized Google.com Right now major food selection that appears once an Android phone is actually connected in. Like my apple iphone 6, the demo's Nexus 5 revealed a distraction-free logo. Over 3 years, with an automobile that has been actually acquired brand new, you'll have just a singular pricey service, in year 2. Petrol vehicles are actually typically quieter, however the main factor that the majority of little automobiles possess gasoline motors is actually since the cars and truck itself is not that pricey, as well as adding a diesel motor would increase the price through excessive. You may use these to concentrate to the little bits of the automobile you believe require improving. Google's dream for this kind of self-driving car really isn't a precise substitute for the one parked outside your home. The user interface for the CP100 is actually extremely straightforward, it's a black history along with a row of buttons for five functionalities: phone, Android Automotive or Apple CarPlay, FM, AM radio as well as settings. If the player after that steers right as well as appropriate, I use Modification Characteristic: self.Motion.AngularVelocity, so the automobile on its own revolves.
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2020 Audi A7 Engine Specifications And Price Review
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2020 Audi A7 Engine Specifications And Price Review – The new Audi A7 will be introduced as being a new generation since it is a fantastic demonstrate that this version is just not advertised by 2020 It indeed is reported that the clients are delivering the roads as being the new Audi A7. It could be very different, the first introduced in 2010 version was the automobile in 2014 with new tasks and targets facelift. Consequently, the automobile is going to be even more apparent. As we know, the very first style of Audi being an energy to contend with the Mercedes. There are significant resemblances between A7 and A6. Congratulations, you see clear facial lines. With regards to we know, the brand new Audi A7 could be more similar to a coupe with a five-entrance design. The changes are most important to perform your brand new model.
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2020 Audi A7 Review
Thanks for the latest and extended platform, the A6L brand name, which can be built-in China, within the MLB Evo structure. He can certainly make the new Audi A7 greater. However, the body weight is lighter than before. The expanded wheelbase provides more large-cabin specifically for the rear. The broad outlines, as well as the most abundant back entrance, make you effortlessly get inside and out on this sedan. This concept is used in A7, A8, and A9.
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There is little to say that this auto has much more substantial improvements by using a far more intense design. You may find the front end features a solitary-structure grille along with the LEDs up lately. It is automobile broader, longer and more significant, with significant changes which are soon to be introduced by way of its specifics. A similar modify will probably be added to the cabin in the new Audi A7. Additional the latest version of the Audi TT and also the MMI controller to change the incorporated touchscreen.
2020 Audi A7 Engine Specifications
The two main variations are rich in a performance that is S7 and RS7. The fuel and diesel are provided. However, it is still challenging to be identified. It is talked about that a twin-turbo V6 to S7 and RS7. Or TFSI V8 engine with 4. liters. There is no verification to the hybrid version in the new Audi A7.
2020 Audi A7 Release Date And Price
With the new design changes, industrial sources and cabin with most exceptional comfort and ease, we had been shocked the pricing is not substantially changed. The standard model in the new Audi A7 with V6 engine offers the US $ 65,000.
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Porsche Controls the Future for Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini
It may be that all’s well that ends well, but at this point, it is difficult to predict what shape the end will assume. The “end,” in this case, is the point in time when the reorganization of the VW group’s luxury and sports car division, as masterminded by Porsche, is complete and fully functional.
The plan is for Porsche to coordinate the future activities (and to control the flow of revenues) of Lamborghini, Bentley, and Bugatti. The marques will share architectures and componentry, and pool their efforts to address essential challenges like electrification, digitalization, and autonomous driving.
In the wake of this major strategic revision, Porsche has announced that it intends to cut costs at a rate of $2.3 billion per year until 2022. The money saved will be instantly reinvested in new technologies most of which happen to have a low return on investment. The key efficiency gains will be had in improvements to research and development, procurement, and production.
OLD TROOPERS AND THE NEW GUARD FIGHT IT OUT The premium brands are run by Bram Schot (who replaced Rupert Stadler at Audi), Oliver Blume (Porsche), Adrian Hallmark (who took over from Wolfgang Dürheimer at Bentley) and Stephan Winkelmann (Bugatti).
The dark horse on the management carousel is Peter Duesmann who will join VW when his retention period expires in summer 2020. The ex-BMW top manager has three options: he could replace a potentially underperforming Bram Schot at Audi, he could become COO of the VW group, or he could step in for Oliver Blume at Porsche.
As always, the strings are going to be pulled by the supervisory board, which is controlled by the Porsche and Piech families. In a rare show of agreement, they want to promote Porsche chairman Blume to the board of the VW group. Blume’s successor may be Duesmann, who has a strong motorsport track record and is a dyed-in-the-wool car guy. Schot is said to be safe in his position at Audi at the moment, but he must get the brand back in shape—or the board will find a new number one.
HOW NOT TO HANDLE A LUXURY BRAND From Wolfsburg’s vantage point, Audi is a potential future casualty—not least because of Dieselgate—but right now the biggest problem child is Bentley. According to a German business weekly, the Bentley boys are currently losing nearly $20,000 on every vehicle sold. In the first half of 2018, losses amounted to more than $90 million as sales fell by 15 percent. If Adrian Hallmark increases the marque’s annual output from about 10,500 to 15,000 units, he would likely only repeat the mistakes made by every Bentley boss since the departure of Franz-Josef Paefgen. Volume is a blessing and a curse for every luxury brand. Flooding the dealers with hard-to-sell stock, counter-productive rapid-succession facelifts, embarrassing design issues (Bentayga, Mulsanne), and a total lack of low-emissions engines, hybrids, or electric vehicles is bound to stifle demand, ruin resale values, and put an emphasis on the “olde” in Bentley’s olde worlde brand image. The fact that Audi is not getting its act together in terms of Crewe-bound future-emissions-ready engines only adds insult to injury.
BUGATTI IS BACK ON TRACK—WITH A VENGEANCE Perhaps messieurs Winterkorn, Müller, or Diess should have put Stephan Winkelmann in charge of the Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini triplets, and made Oliver Blume run the Audi & Porsche Show.
Winkelmann is feared for his crackdown management style, the ruthless pursuit of a chosen target, and his egocentric personality. But let´s face it: Lamborghini owes what it is today to the fit and fashion-conscious tri-lingual Berlin-born jack-of-all-trades. Although his interregnum at Audi Sport lasted only a year, he kicked off three projects that may put the rudderless appendix back on track. At Bugatti, he stepped in for Wolfgang Dürheimer whose legacy was the amazing Chiron. Instead of leaning back and watching 70 cars a year leave les ateliers in Molsheim, Winkelmann once again switched to attack mode. The Divo, to be built by Italdesign, was his first attention-grabbing product, and there will be more.
Insiders are expecting a limited run of aerodynamically advanced lightweight Superleggeras, an even more track-oriented Chiron SS, and a completely re-skinned targa-top Chiron Aperta. In addition, Bugatti is reportedly pondering an all-electric high-end model, which may materialize in cooperation with Porsche, Rimac, and Dallara.
A DARK HORSE BY THE NAME OF LAMBORGHINI Rumor has it that Lamborghini will soon be transferred from Audi ownership to the luxury and sport division masterminded by Porsche. The ambitious completion date is Jan 1, 2019. If the tall legal hurdles posed by Italian corporate law can be overcome, Ducati Enterprises would be the new holding company representing the group’s remaining interests in Italy. Stefano Domenicali who used to run Ferrari’s F1 team, remains Lamborghini chairman with Maurizio Reggiani as his CTO. The revised game plan caught Audi and Lamborghini with surprise—and at a critical point in time for the Raging Bull’s future product portfolio.
You see, the Italians had hoped to complete the Aventador and Huracán replacements before the Zuffenhausen bean counters could intervene. Since both models were to share their monofuselage carbon fiber architecture, the ragazzi from Sant’Agata would have been all but untouchable by Porsche’s synergy-creating aspirations for the next ten years. Will that happen? Possibly.
Although the next-generation Aventador has been pushed back to 2022, the project is thought to be too far down the road to be revoked. It’s a wild-looking thing, overtly aggressive and expressively stylish, a badass wedge adorned with plenty of trademark Y symbols. The modular monofuselage can be divided in three elements: the front axle driven by two electric motors, the backbone center section that houses the batteries, and the drivetrain assembly comprising V-12 engine, new dual-clutch Getrag transmission, third e-motor, and rear suspension.
Still normally aspirated, the modified V-12 will be good for around 770 hp. Add 300 kW (402 hp) of electric power, and you’re looking at nearly 1,200 hp without pulling out all the stops. Since there is no way this monster machine DNA can be integrated in a rival VW group architecture, the flagship will almost certainly proceed as planned.
A similar carbon fiber layout is in the works for the next Huracán, which also remains faithful to its non-turbo engine. The upgraded 5.2-liter V-10 is said to be good for 650 hp. Thanks to a 250 kW (335 hp) electric power boost, Lamborghini’s AWD bestseller should be able to keep up with the Ferrari 488.
It will, however, be important to come to grips with the weight penalty caused by energy cells, motors, and performance electronics. In addition, the monofuselage hardware is still way over budget, and there are no obvious scale effects with respect to Audi and Porsche.
So what to do? Right now, the decision makers are looking at two alternatives. Option one is to keep Huracán in lock-step with the R8, but this approach works only if Audi actually wants a new R8, and if this R8 comes with a watertight business case. Option two is to create a new aluminum-intensive modular multi-brand sports car architecture to open up a broader scope of opportunities. The latter route may be the most likely.
ADVANCED GERMAN ENGINEERING AT A CROSSROADS Internally known as Mimo II, this electrified lightweight structure would be developed by Porsche for the repeatedly delayed Ferrari 488 fighter known as the 960. The same Mimo II architecture could also see use in the future Huracán and the R8 replacement, with expectations of a 650-hp V-8 PHEV powertrain. Electrification is the catchword here. You see, Mimo II is flexible enough to cater for ICE, HEV, PHEV, and BEV applications.
To keep complexity at bay, we hear that the J1 platform prepared for the Porsche Taycan will, for cost reasons, remain a one-off, which is another way of saying that it and any successor are all but dead for group use. The rumored SPAZ and SPE future architectures may share a similar fate, since the research and development wizards reckon that the existing MMB/MHB platforms can be electrified at relatively little expense. In essence, this would leave the group with three premium components sets: PPE/PPC for larger cars and SUVs; Monofuselage or Mimo for high-performance sports cars; and MMB/MHB evo for Cayman and 911.
Audi may replace the R8 with one of three options, including an all-electric PB18-inspired car, a Huracán II derivative, or a Mimo II-based sports car, but since no decision has been made, we’re not going to see anything in the flesh before 2022.
Alternatively, the R8 could simply go away. An intriguing, equally unconfirmed alternative is the recreation of the iconic Ur-Quattro, which could be a synthesis of the many show cars Audi has devoted to this theme. Another possibility is said to be a limited-edition supercar described as a TT RS on steroids. Radically aggressive in appearance and fitted with a 500-hp-plus five-cylinder turbo engine, this 2+2-seater may indeed have what it takes to replace the R8.
Yet another alternative is an ultra-lightweight high-performance two-seater halo car, assembled by a coachbuilder at no more than 500 units in total—think super-R8. Last but not least, there is the striking zero-emission 400-kW (536 hp) Audi e-tron GT shooting brake, which shares its genetic material with the Porsche Taycan and the Bentley Barnato—though remember our previous caveat about the viability of the J1 architecture.
Lamborghini will add an Urus plug-in hybrid in 2020 and facelift the Urus in 2022. There will be no Urus coupé, but we do expect an Urus Performante range-topper. What about a fourth model range? Not in the foreseeable future. The closest thing to a fourth Lambo was the 2008 Estoque, which ticked all the boxes when there was still a market for ultra-high-performance saloons.
If Lamborghini ever does extend its line-up, it will probably by a potent four-seater, two-door, Espada-style luxury GT based on the upcoming PPE/PPC platform. Beyond that, the folks in Sant’Agata are still keen on extreme one-offs like Egoista and Terzo Millenio; exclusive, tailor-made editions of no more than 20 units such as Veneno and Sesto Elemento; and limited-edition hypercars like the Aventador SVJ. Currently in the works are said to be a Paris-Dakar Huracán and a de-contented rear-wheel drive Aventador Ultima.
Porsche is about to release the next 911, dubbed 992. Originally, this was meant to be the final iteration of the MHB toolkit, but since the 992 architecture can accommodate PHEV componentry, we would not be surprised to see it live on in modified form. While the 992 retains the classic rear-engine layout, the still-pending 960 would be a mid-engine coupé featuring a six-cylinder boxer and a 200-kW (268-hp) electric front-wheel drive system.
Although Porsche has allegedly signed off the Boxster/Cayman replacement (codenamed 983), it’s another low-margin project because the segment is in free fall. We hear that 983 is package-protected for a straight-five engine in case Audi feels like replacing the TT with a proper sports car.
Rumor also has it that Porsche is investigating an all-electric sports car scenario. Derived from the MMB components set, there is talk of a neo-Cayman E (two motors good for 400 hp, 100-kWh battery) and a neo-919 E (three motors rated at 600 hp, 125 kWh battery).
IN HINDSIGHT, YOU ARE NOT ALWAYS WISER While Porsche’s return on investment is second only to Ferrari, Audi is seriously overstaffed and worryingly over budget. Would it not have made more sense to put Audi and Porsche together in one cooperative group, while creating a separate, partly autonomous subdivision for Bentley, Bugatti, and Lamborghini?
Audi and Porsche are the biggest earners within the VW group, and already share heavily in terms of technology and development. In a nutshell, Audi needs Porsche more than Porsche needs Audi, but they still both need each other.
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