You can now order the new Audi Q5 from Audi Nationwide for delivery starting Mid December.
| ModelModel | Price / Month | Details |
| Audi Q5 2.0 TDI | £468 /Month* |  |
| Audi Q5 2.0 TDI S line | £488 /Month* | |
| Audi Q5 2.0 TDI | £511/Month* | |
| Audi Q5 2.0T FSI SE S Tronic | £525/Month* | |
*All prices shown are subject to Vat and based on individual terms shown. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. See Delivery and Terms for full details.
We mentioned last month that Audi are doing a Trans-America demonstration for the fuel efficiency of TDI diesels – so far, the Audi Mileage Marathon is halfway through the United States. In total over 2,800 miles have been covered and Audi’s TDI Vehicles are revealing some impressive numbers regarding fuel efficiency.
2,000 miles into this cross country marathon, the Audi A3 TDI has the best mpg average so far, averaging 46mpg over the entire drive, in second is the Audi A4 TDI with 39mpg, the Audi Q5 is third with 33mpg and the not yet released in America, the Audi Q7 TDI is in fourth place averaging 28mpg, impressive numbers for an SUV of its size and weight.
The Audi Mileage Marathon is been sanctioned by IMSA officials, they are present at the refuelling, signing and sealing the fuel filler doors, it is also them who determine the winners of each leg, after analyzing the vehicles data collected every 24 hours.
The winner of each leg is the vehicle that achieves the best averages regarding fuel economy, speed and distance.
IMSA is an American association member of the Automobile Competition Committee of the United States (ACCUS); IMSA is responsible for organizing and validating professional road racing competition.
Today sees the start of Audi used car week If you buy an Approved Used Audi between 17th and 27th October 2008 from Essex Audi, you can enjoy either 2 years’ free servicing or a 2-year Audi warranty. Free servicing ensures that your Audi will receive specialist attention from our Audi Trained Technicians for the duration of the offer, while the extended warranty means you’re covered for an extra 12 months.
What you get:
2 years’ free servicing
2-year warranty
You can view the full stock of our approved used Audis on the website here
Please contact us for further details.
*Terms and Conditions
The Guardian reports that VT Training has won an award in this year’s Fleet Heroes awards.
VT Training is one of the country’s biggest vocational training organisations. They have introduced a company car scheme that is reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, by encouraging employees to use company cars with low co2 emissions rather than using their own cars for company business.
Nationally, there are an estimated 4milion private cars used for work; the so-called grey fleets. And with The new Corporate Manslaughter Act, makes it more likely that directors will be prosecuted if their employees have serious accidents whilst driving unsafe vehicles Making sure the wide range of private vehicles are safe could be a time consuming and costly business.
Audi have a low emissions version of the Audi A3 which matches the co2 emissions 119g/km of the cars used by VT Training. There is also a tax benefit for employees taking a car in this band – with the next band up adding an additional £10 month to the benefit in kind.
The new Audi A3 TDI three-door hatchback has been available since August, and from October the five-door Audi A3 Sportback is available on contract hire at £292*a month.
Audis latest experimental Audi A4 2.0 TDIe shown off at the Paris Auto show has a number of improvements to increase its fuel efficiency to just over 71 MPG (UK) just under 4liters /100km and 58 Mpg (US) they also managed to shave 5g off the CO2/Km figure.
Fortitude (an Audi news site) commented in their Paris round up:
“Foregoing fitting the ultra-efficient engine into a swoopy and far-from-production concept car, Audi went with their top-selling Audi A4. The result looks just like a car you can buy today, but nets a hair shy of 60 mpg (USA Gallons). You might miss seeing it, but it’s hard to miss the significance of this new engine tech”
A number of innovative energy saving and carbon reduction technologies where used to hit these impressive fuel and co2 figures
The Audi 2.0 TDI engine also features a comprehensive list of efficiency tweaks. The oil cooler, the oil nozzles for cooling the piston crowns, the oil pump and the water pump have been designed so that they can be switched off – when inactive they do not require any power.
A new design of piston rings resulted in lower tangential forces, the spring pressure on the intake valves was reduced slightly, and the vacuum pump for the brake booster received a new actuator. These measures as a whole reduced emissions by 5 grams of CO2/km.
This Audi A4 uses a thermostatically controlled cooling circuit with an internal heat exchanger for the automatic air conditioning system - this system uses 20 percent less fuel than its predecessor. The A4 TDI concept e uses a new controller: the engine disconnects the air conditioning system’s compressor from its drive whenever possible.
The Audi transmission is coupled to a start-stop system that switches the engine off whenever the car comes to a standstill. The engine is deactivated whenever the Audi A4 TDI concept e comes to a standstill, It starts up again as soon as the driver steps on the clutch.
The A4 TDI concept e has had changes to its aero package to improve its fuel efficiency A new boot lid with a restrained separating edge improves the already excellent aerodynamics. The partially closed grid in the single-frame grille and improved underbody fairings ; also contribute to the excellent drag coefficient of 0.25 for the model (the production model Audi A4 is 0.27).
The A4 TDIe concept uses a energy recovery system that converts the energy generated during deceleration into usable electrical energy. In the deceleration and braking phases the A4 TDI stores energy temporality in a glass mat battery, which is a robust battery with a long life. Whenever the car accelerates again, the battery feeds the energy back in – this is similar in concept to the systems that Formula 1 cars will be using from next year.
With the credit crunch all businesses are looking to reduce the cost of their company car fleets, this ‘e’ version of the Audi A4 shows that Audi’s engineers are always looking to improve the efficiency of Audi cars with sacrificing the performance and style Audi is known for.
Audi plans to expand its ‘e’ model line in the near future and start putting further technologies from its modular efficiency assembly into production.
Despite the global financial crisis Audi AG reported a global sales increase in September of 12.3 percent compared to September 2007. In number of vehicles that represent nearly 10 thousand more vehicles sold.
From January through September, Audi sold so far 762,280 units, an increase of 2.9 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Audi AG also achieved impressive growth rates in Asia/Pacific and European markets.
In Europe figures went up by 13.2 percent in September. From January through September Audi sold 539,934 vehicles in Europe an increase of 1,1 percent in sales.
In Asia/Pacific Audi sold 14,842 premium vehicles in September, an impressive growth of 20.9 percent. From January through September sales went up by 17.3 percent with 118,178 units sold
The principal drivers of growth were the new Audi A4 and the A5 sports coupé.