LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Audi a4: Models
built 629 days ago
For the 2005 model year, Audi A4 just keeps on getting better. The newest Audi A4 boasts of outstanding exterior and interior features and an impressive turbocharged engine. Typical of an Audi vehicle, it comes with fully galvanized steel unibody with multi-step anti-corrosion protection. Your ride will surely be secure and comfortable with its revised and more performance-oriented suspension. The front suspension includes 4-link with upper and lower control arms, stabilizer bar, coil springs and gas charged shock absorbers. While the rear suspension is equipped with is fully independent trapezoidal-link with stabilizer bar and coil springs and shock absorbers.
Source:
New Audi A4 Introduction The Audi A4 represents a line of fantastic sports sedans. They deliver crisp handling, a firm ride, and a well-controlled suspension that make for a precise, high-quality driving experience. The A4 feels like it's on rails around fast sweepers, especially when equipped with Audi's quattro all-wheel-drive system, one of the world's best. Beautifully finished interiors exude quality and ergonomic excellence. Performance and driveability vary by model. The turbocharged four-cylinder engine that comes on 1.8T models delivers excellent performance when paired with a manual gearbox and it's attractively priced, but the 1.8-liter engine doesn't work as well with the available automatic transmission.
Source:
The new Audi A4 combines many fascinating aspects. Its design is expressive, taut and dynamic. The high precision and technical character of its styling clearly confirm Audi’s leading position in this field. Compared with the previous model, the designers have altered the proportions to create a new, sporty impression. The front overhang is shorter, the hood and wheelbase distinctly longer.
Source:
Audi will add a a new model to the Allroad line-up: a new version based on the A4 sedan unveiled last year. The new model will be launched at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. It will borrow design elements from the Audi Allroad concept. read
Source:
When compared with the previous model, the Audi A4 has new, sporty proportions. The front body overhang has been drastically shortened; the bonnet and wheelbase are both longer than before. In the driveline, the differential has changed places with the clutch (or torque converter), making it possible to move the front axle forward by 154 millimetres.
Source:
The next A4 will employ Audi's new "modular" platform engineering. This allows mixing different underskin structures and associated components to create niche models that don't necessarily fall within the usual categories. The first "modular" Audi will be a new model, the A5, expected in Europe about a year before the first redesigned A4s. A5 reportedly bows as a coupe sized close to Audi's midrange A6 sedans. A cloth-roof convertible will be added around 2010. Both will list at least two V6s, according to one source, but another mole thinks engines may ... include Audi's 200-hp turbocharged 4-cyl and a 350-hp V8.
MORE ABOUT
Models