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The mean, green machines about to flood our shores

By Seth Fletcher Posted 1.20.08 at 11:34 pm 4 Comments

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Audi A4
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The new Audi A4, which was first revealed last fall at the Frankfurt auto show, made its North American debut this week in Detroit. The new A4 isn't a radical departure, to say the least. To my eye, it looks pretty much the same as the previous iteration, though slightly sleeker and sexier. Audi says the refreshed A4 delivers something that its predecessor lacked: Enough leg room in the back seat to keep adults from getting deep vein thrombosis on drives longer than two hours.
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Audi R8 V12 Diesel
Seth Fletcher
Euro carmakers know that we Americans still associate diesel with the asthma-inducing dump trucks that nearly run us off the road a few times a week. This is why Audi has drafted its hottest car, the R8, to be its official Ambassador of Diesel. This concept version of the R8, which runs on a V12 TDi turbocharged diesel engine, can run from 0 to 60 mph in 4.2 seconds, top out over 185 mph—and still get 24 mpg. At least that's what Audi says.
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4 Comments

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Novawork-Electronics

02/16/08 at 11:46 pm

Audi R8 V12 Awesome Car...Loved it

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johnkiddiii

from Littleton, CO

03/04/08 at 11:09 am

HUMMER HX straight from Halo 3 lol, but it still looks tight...

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Ricardito

03/24/08 at 5:09 am

It's great to find options according with getting care and doing good for the environmental question... no more carbons, combustion based on fossils, just right now is the moment to change at all cause we have all we need to do it from decades ago, don't mess with this, you big manufacturers, you'll win and recover your critical position in front of foreign competitors... why electric recharging if, c'mon, we all know there is another options on? Autorecharging, caring about atmosphere will be total caring, not just simulating a change... not the same or combinations! We proud can in America.

EXCUSE MY ENGLISH WRITING (A MEXICAN READER).-
Monterrey, Mexico

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scooterbooter

05/30/08 at 5:28 pm

copy cats that hummer is straight from halo 3 come on think of some of your own ideas