Audi of America introduced the all-new 2015 A3 Sedan with both the 1.8 TFSI and 2.0 TFSI gasoline-fueled powertrains. The A3 Sedan will be joined later in 2014 by the recently announced Audi A3 Cabriolet, A3 TDI clean diesel, the high-performance S3 Sedan and in early 2015, the A3 Sportback e-tron gasoline electric hybrid (PHEV).
Audi says that its Online traffic light information system, demonstrated in an Audi A6 as part of a technology display at the Consumer Electronics Show in January in Las Vegas, is production ready and could be fitted to every Audi model in the range subject to the necessary government legislation.
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz slashed second-place Audi’s luxury-car sales lead by almost one-third in the first two months of 2014 on surging demand for its models in China.
Through February, Mercedes was 26,647 sales behind Audi compared with 36,804 during the same period last year.
Just as Europe’s car market recovery shifts up a gear, the region’s biggest automaker Volkswagen will have little new to display from its luxury brand Audi at the upcoming Geneva auto show, other than a niche sports car.Audi, which accounts for almost half of operating profit at Volkswagen, will unveil a new version of the TT sports car, a model that accounted for less than 2 percent of the brand’s 1.58 million sales in 2013.
The five countries consecutively held the EU presidency during that time and were responsible for leading policy negotiations.
