Audi along with their partners including the city of Ingolstadt’s Office for Traffic Management and Geoinformation, the Professorial Chair for Traffic Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, and GEVAS software GmbH, have developed a new fuel saving and eco-friendly driving concept.

Audi AG described this as “trend-setting concepts for traffic infrastructure to promote eco-friendly driving”. The Travolution team unveiled its concepts for the traffic infrastructure of the future today. Around Ingolstadt 46 traffic lights have been using new software that optimises the entire traffic light network in the contral area of the city, reducing the time cars are stopped at the traffic lights, and the stop and start nature of city driving.

The second part of the project consists of three traffic lights equipped with communications modules, these modules send the time for the next green phase to the car’s onboard computer. The Travolution team named this part of the project “The informed driver”.

Audi has provided an Audi A5 and an Audi A6 Avant to test this part of the project. The drivers are informed via the Audi MMI system, the traffic lights send a message to the drivers saying at what speed they need to drive at in order to drive through the intersection without having to stop.

Additional follow-on projects based on Travolution are to be carried out by the venture partners. The research in Ingolstadt is to be expanded by another 20 cars and 50 traffic light installations. In addition, up-to-the-minute traffic information for the city will keep drivers better informed.

Company Car Driver has a good article about which Audi TT to chose as a company car. In the current economic situation with the increase in VED taking the sensible view and taking all the costs into consideration is a good idea both from the view of the driver and your companies accounts department.

Base price for an Audi TT 2.0 TFSI is £29,485 and returns around 32mpg and the prices is more or less where the advantages end the TT TFSI ends – though the diesel does come with Quattro four-wheel drive as standard.

Audi 2.0 TFSI
Audi TT TDI

Comparison of Audi TT TDI VS Audi TT 2.0 TFSI MPG Company Tax PUC Etc

In VED terms, the petrol is £50 a year more expensive.

All of this results in the TT diesel being nearly two pence per mile cheaper to run over three years and 60,000 miles. For a driver that covers around 60,000 miles should recover the extra cost of diesel and the additional cost of the diesel version.

Having said that given the trend to increase VED and other vehicle taxes on more polluting cars within a year or so the case for the Audi TT diesel may well become more compelling.

Audi’s latest 2.0 litre Turbo FSI engine is now available for the Audi A5 range. Audi’s new TFSI engine combines power high-torque and great efficiency vital to keep your company car tax bill down.

The new Audi A5 2.0 TFSI can be ordered from now with production starting in Septemer in 211 ps front-wheel-drive and Four- wheel- drive Quattro will be reaching its first UK customers from August.

Audi’s new 2.0 TFSI engine delivers 211PS  the front-wheel-drive Audi A5 TFSI with six-speed manual transmission accelerates from 0-62mph in 6.9 seconds  with a maximum speed of 155mph, fuel efficiency of 42.8mpg in a combined cycle test and a CO2 output of only 154g/km.

Fuel efficiency is assured by Audi’s valvelift technology which allows the engine to “breath” more  effectively, switching the engines camshafts profile according to throttle usage.

The Audi A5 2.0 TFSI front-wheel-drive and quattro all-wheel-drive versions standard specifications includes, 17″ seven-spoke alloy wheels, climate control, 10 speaker CD Audi system, full Milano leather upholstery and rear acoustic parking.

We are still finalising the contract hire prices on the full range of the new 2.0 TSFI A5 Range but a typical Audi A5 2.0 TFSI Contract hire terms is £429 a month + VAT on a 3 and 35 term 10000 miles.  Contact Audi Nationwide for more details.

To demonstrate the fuel efficiency of its new Audi A4 TDI, last month Audi and Auto Bild organized a fuel efficiency competition. Eleven Audi A4 TDIs competed in a fuel efficiency race from Basel to Vienna and back, covering a total of 1,025 miles over a mixture of motorway and B roads,  and the winner was an Audi A4 with a fuel consumption of 3.44 liters per 100km or 82.11 MPG.

Audi has just debuted its most economical Audi A4 TDI model ever; Audi also launched an all new 2.0 TFSI with high fuel efficiency and low CO2 emissions. This two new Audi A4 models completes Audi’s efficiency focused overhaul.

The new 120PS A4 2.0 TDI is available to order now priced from 22,150 OTR, as is the new 211PS A4 2.0 TFSI, priced from 24,625 OTR. Both will be delivered to their first UK customers in mid-July. Contact Audi Nationwide for more information about Contract Hire Audi A4’s.

The TDI engine is equipped with the advanced common rail piezo fuel injection system, it has an output of 120PS and 290 Nm of torque delivered via 6-speed manual transmission, with a potential to cover 55mpg and 134g/km of CO2 emission-

The new 2.0 litre TFSI engine is based on its smaller version the 1.8 TFSI engine, like its smaller version it combines turbo charging and FSI direct injection to deliver strong performance as efficient as possible, to help reduce fuel consumption the TFSI engine is equipped with Audi valvelift technology which reduces fuel consumption by 5%. The Audi A4 TFSI covers 42.8mpg with a 154g/km of CO2 emissions.

Due to its low CO2 emissions and fuel efficiency these two new models of the Audi A4 will attract the lowest company car tax liability in the premium sector - and the out standing fuel efficiency will help reduce company fuel bills.

The Audi A3 has now been facelifted and enhanced from the 2008 model.

The latest pictures and new pack specifications for the Standard, SE, Sport and S Line are now available in the new pricelist in our downloads section!

For more information about the pack changes and lead times please contact us.