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IMAGINE DEVOTING YOUR LIFE TO BUILDING YOUR MODEL. 18
When you were a kid, you prob commitment to premium ift and ifnish and passion for un
ably felt quite proud when you paralleled engineering go into every model. It’s the kind
completed a model kit. We under of discipline that the word “painstaking” was invented to 06
stand. At Audi, it takes countless describe. Not to say it’s a chore—no, assembling an Audi
hours for a single Audi to go from is a labor of love, and it shows every time you sit in one, 19
idea to design to roadworthy, and engage the ignition and nudge the accelerator. Creating
that’s time we are very proud to an Audi isn’t easy, but the results help deifne what Audi
devote. Our obsession for detail, means to the people who drive one.
→ INNOVATIVE DESIGN
By using fully pressed aluminum
doors in the Audi A6, the door
structures were reduced by an
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ACOUSTIC ENHANCEMENTS
OUR REPUTATION HINGES ON THE QUALITY OF THINGS YOU DON’T SEE. We use soft mounts on our window
regulator and a sound absorbing
It’s said that, when one door closes, closing, but on the proper weight that will make it more pleasing to close. backing within the door cavity itself
another one opens. It sounds as if How the locks should click when they are engaged. The optimal acoustic to make the cabin even quieter.
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whoever said it spent some time at placement for the speaker port. There are the hinges too, of course. And
an Audi research and development the door itself, which we designed to take the brunt of side impact colli
facility. After all, while you’ll open sions, and several dozen other safety considerations to say nothing of the
and close the door on your Audi countless other