The future of Audi cars in Atlanta looks PRETTY…

Seeing these renderings and computer animated pics, I must say Audi never looked so pretty. For the summer Audi Ingolstadt is planning to release the new Audi Q3. Manufactured by Seat (a VW Group daughter) in Martorell, Spain the new Audi Q3 will share technical components from Audi A4 and Volkswagen Golf, which was just announced Germany’s favorite and most selling car for 2010.

See an additional picture of the new Audi Q3 mini crossover SUV at our Jim Ellis Audi Marietta dealer website by clicking on the photo.

picture source: auto motor sport

Missing calendar sheets for Audi Silver Arrows are posted

A Happy New Year to all Audi Enthusiasts and may bring 2011 the best year ever for you and your loved ones. As I had mentioned a couple of days ago, the second part of Audi’s Nostalgic Calendar “Zeitsprung” will be posted. To complete my mission I just have put the missing pics onto my Jim Ellis Audi Marietta website. I hope you will love the models you see there and please drop me a note why you love AUDI so much.

Stay tuned for more news, posts, info and rumors on AUDI.

Cheers, VJ (follow us here on our Facebook Fan Page)

 

Jim Ellis Audi Marietta shows Calendar Pictures of classical Auto Union racing cars

The German car magazine “AutoZeitung” and the Audi Museum Shop is promoting photos of their original Auto Union Silver Arrows on genuine race-circuit; they had driven decades ago. The name of the calendar “Zeitsprung”, which means “Time Leap, shows 9 different models, driven by two racing legends and one rock legends: Hans-Joachim Stuck and Jacky Ickx for race car drivers and Pink Floyd Nick Mason.

This Photo shows Month August with Hans Joachim Stuck in the Auto Union Type C, which actually won in 1934 with Hans Joachim Stuck’s father behind the wheel its first race. The Type C Grand Prix (a.k.a. Bergrenner [transl. Mountain-Racer]) dominated the world of motor racing in 1936, racking up a total of ten Grand Prix victories.

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The March sheet shows the Belgium race circuit”Spa”, where the Auto Union Type C models had pretty successful times (1937 to 1939).

Appetite of more pictures showing the glory times of Auto Union, then please check out more photos on our Jim Ellis Audi Marietta News website. I hope you’ll enjoy them as I did.

You can also try to order the calendar through the German Audi Museum at audi.de/museumsshop (just checked it out and the calendar is currently not available). It appears that calendar is possibly sold out. At least you can enjoy a few more pictures here.

The Audi A6 tops DEKRA reports and again called “Best of All Classes”

Now for three years in the row, the German Car Maker Audi and its current Audi A6 model once again is standing out with excellent grades in the graduation class of German’s Testing institute DEKRA, revealing their test results in their “Automobile Fault Reports” for 2011. The conducted DEKRA test is trying to spot and to reveal the best of all (car) classes, with main focus on reliability and fewest road issues over a high mileage test phase. The DEKRA experts did look only at models for which at least 1,000 units had been tested in the particular mileage class prior (for more on the DEKRA test and wording of the original press release, please follow this link here).

The results couldn’t come to a better time for Audi and Jim Ellis Audi Marietta – an Audi dealer in the Metro Atlanta area, who is just getting ready and prepared to launch the all new 2012 Audi A6 early 2011. Benchmarks on the new 2011 Audi A6: Better fuel economy and efficiency, in combination with re-energized and optimized engines in combination with light-weight construction materials. Further is Audi promising to step up quality control even further, also when Audi cars are already known as one of the best constructed and assembled in the industry.

That is possibly why the German Audi Slogan and Motto “Vorsprung durch Technik” – [translation: Advancement through Technology] is becoming more and more true.

We here at Jim Ellis Audi Marietta – Georgia, are indeed excited to finally have the successor of the Audi A6 coming into our showrooms for our customers in the Atlanta area – sooner or later! More photos on the new2012  Audi A6 model are shown in our Audi Concept and Audi News category on our Audi dealer website.

Jim Ellis Audi Marietta heard rumor: Will the Audi RS4 “die” in 2012?

According to the world-wide web Internet rumor mill and reports from Car and Driver as well as great photos provided from emgCarTech showing the possible successor from Audi’s RS4 – the Audi RS5, Audi will put an end to the “uber-sports” sedan Audi RS4.

The successor RS5 is being to be expected to fulfill the wants and needs of the former Audi RS4 clientele, and hopes that the RS5 will make an impact in the U.S. market for 2012. Because it is still early on, it is understandable that no pricing, no trim line or accessories are released at this time. So it feels almost like waiting for Santa Claus and hoping that he brings what we have wished for.

What we know so far is that Audi RS5 will have the 4.2 liter power aggregate, which catapults the sporty coupe from 0-62 mph in a blink of 4.2 seconds. Me being used to the German Autobahn bothers that the electronically governed will shut off the feeling to be flying by “just 155 mph. “Sighhh…why Brutus, why? Tell me why?”

Do you have any thoughts or more information, please feel free to send your comment. Enjoy more pictures from the Audi RS5 here (Picture source: emgCarTech)

Jim Ellis Audi Marietta reports: Audi is getting serious in regards of e-power

The first thing what I noticed around 9 years ago when I came over from Germany to the U.S., were the typical small town main roads and the immense accumulation of gas stations, lined up almost like the first graders from my sons’ elementary class, when standing in front of the school kitchen and getting ready for lunch. Even so this picture is imprinted in my mind, we  all might have to rethink how we experienced and have known America’s gasoline pump stations street-scape. Reason here for is the unstoppable progress of the automotive industry to develop the ultimate EV – a.k.a. the Electric Vehicle.

BMW is speaking of its upcoming City Car, Nissan launching its Leaf this month, Chevy getting ready for its Volt deliveries and then there is Audi, who showed a few months back their EV vision with the Audi e-tron line-up, as seen here in the Audi e-tron spyder version. Now, let’s picture an ordinary day of a typical working American, commuting with her EV daily to the office downtown. 6.00PM – coming home required next action for the vehicle owner; recharge the batteries during the night hours via regular power outlets installed in the garage, so the car will be ready in the morning to get her back to work. According to industry data for approximate reach when fully charged is around 200 to 300 miles, So City trips are more than feasible and  I believe won’t give you an anxiety attack of fear getting stranded in the not so nice area of the town, especially thinking about some dark corners in Atlanta, GA. No offense please.

But – what are Americans doing when they are getting ready for the cross-country trip a la Clark Griswold visiting Walley World? Audi’s thinkers, engineers, designers and visionaries got together and came up with a solution, which will make the Clark Griswold’s of the 21^st century happy.

The answer: The e-den – a futuristic vision of a e-Fuel station not only to re-charge the vehicles but also its travelers. During Florida’s trade show event – Design Miami 2010, Audi presented an impressive architecture reminiscent to an American Gasoline Station out of the 1950’s. Addressing in particular one major concern – the waiting time to get your car fully charged, opened up the idea to make these future Re-charge Stations as much comfortable as possible for the people, waiting their car being fully charged. I am predicting that in these kind of Motel-similar buildings enough amenities will find its place such as huge play areas for kids (which we already see on Germanys’ Autobahn Rest Stations), Internet cafe and even movie theaters. (Let’s face it – you won’t be able to recharge an EV in 3 minutes, like we are used to when filling up our current gas guzzlers or the fuel-efficient Audi TDI engines.)

How serious is Audi with this design study? I believe pretty S E R I O U S, when looking at the following picture!

As you may know, Audi is pushing full steam ahead with their approach and development to get these electric vehicles onto the roads. In less than one year Audi presented already four electric concepts within its Audi e-tron family and do not forget their development on the small-series of the 100% electric Audi R8 e-tron super-sports car, which will entry the market in 2012.

For more photos on this article  about Audi’s e-den Vision and Future Concept cars please visit our website or acquire information from Jim Ellis Audi Marietta, Georgia directly.