The New Audi S5 in Detail

At the recent 77e Salon International de l'Auto Geneve (77th annual Geneva International Motor Show) early this March, Volkswagen Group's Audi division unveiled their latest luxury high-performance sports coupe in front of the European crowd who participated in the show. The Audi S5 took the center stage in the Audi stand along with the Audi A5 coupe.

As for a sports coupe, the Audi S5 features a sporty and elegant exterior and interior design along with clear functionality. Outside the car, you can find the radiator grille painted in platinum grey and fitted with vertical chrome inlays. The front and rear bumpers are more distinctive along with the air inlet grilles. Other exterior parts found on the Audi S5 include aluminium-look exterior mirror housings, colour-keyed door sill trim, dual-branch exhaust system with four oval tailpipes, xenon plus headlights with daytime running lights featuring LED light sand, 18-inch wheels with 245/40 R 18 performance tires, and the pronounced rear spoiler providing aerodynamic down force for better road-to-vehicle traction.

In addition to sporty exterior parts, Audi S5 also comes with a host of elegant and sporty interior amenities. Customers can choose between the available interior trims including carbon, aluminium, stainless steel or wood. Customers can also feel the dynamic environment on the interior with the car's sports seats, sports steering wheel, instruments with grey dials, and aluminium door sill plates. Just like the VW cargo liner, the Audi S5 also comes with a functional luggage compartment.

Audi tuned up the S5 and installed some of the highest quality chassis parts and powertrain systems. The sports coupe comes with a specially tuned sports suspension and high-performance brakes to provide improved vehicle handling and driving dynamics. The special high-performance brakes with their black painted brake calipers ensure precise deceleration. For challenging drivers who have starving needs for speed, they can fully deactivate the Audi S5's electronic stabilisation program (ESP) and explore the sports coupe's full driving potential.

In terms of performance of a sports coupe, the Audi S5 is equipped with a monstrous V8 FSI 8-cylinder engine with an impressive and powerful output delivering 354 hp (260 kW) and produces 295 lb.-ft. (400 Nm) amount of peak torque at 3,500 rpm. With this V8 FSI engine, the Audi S5 is capable of accelerating from zero to 62 mph in a mere 5.1 seconds. Audi has also included some of the high-end powertrain technology for the V8 engine to boost the Audi S5's performance. The engine comes with a standard FSI direct injection technology with high compression and optimum fuel mixture formation.

The torque distribution is perfectly balanced, 40 percent on the front axle and 60 percent torque out put carried to the vehicle's rear axle. To complete the Audi S5's powertrain system, a six-speed manual gearbox is mated to the engine to power the four wheel drive (4WD) configuration.

Watch out for the Audi S5 when it rolls out in dealerships starting in June 2007, along with the Audi A5 luxury coupe.

By Benjamin Hudson.

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Audi Going Strong For The 2007 DTM

Three Audi factory teams namely Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline, Rosberg, and Phoenix has entered the 2007 DTM season which is scheduled to start on April 22 at Hockenheim with strong partners. And for the first time the new designs of Audi A4 DTM cars can be seen in public at the DTM test days at the Motorsport arena Oschersleben starting Tuesday until Friday this week. The official presentation to open the season is going to be held on Sunday on the Kš in Dusseldorf.

Audi Sport has obtained the support of four global players due to its involvement in the most popular international touring car race series and these are Red Bull, Philips, the Schaeffler Group, and Siemens. Audi luxury unit of Volkswagen the producer of quality VW Scirocco part-- has also gained two large media partnersÑthe AutoBild and Playboy. There are also several subsidiary brands of Audi AG has used the popularity of the DTM in promoting their products and services such as the Audi Bank, Audi Gebrauchtwagen:plus, Audi Top Service, and Quattro GmbH.

The two Audi A4 DTM cars of Mattias Ekstrom (Sweden) and Martin Tomczyk (Germany) compete since the year 2004 in the colors of Red Bull, the market leader in energy drink sector. And for this yearÕs blue is made significantly darker than in previous years coming inline with the global motorsport programmer of Red Bull.

Last seasonÕs most successful Audi driver in DTM and Le Mans record winner Tom Kirstensen from Denmark has once again steer an Audi A4 DTM which in 2006 bare the logos of Siemens. The color for this year of the car is silver instead of white which was previously employed.

German Lucas Luhr is driving a white Audi A4 DTM and will advertise Philips, which is a global leading technology. Luhr will advertise PhilipÕs Flat Screen TV equipped with Ambilight background lightning. Another German driver Christian Abt will drive a now flat-black A4 DTM with two sponsors namely menÕs lifestyle magazine Playboy and the Audi AG Gebrauchtwagen:plus programme.

Timo Scheider again from Germany will drive an Audi sportcar which was unveiled at the Audi Motorsport Launch & Lounge in Munich at the beginning of March and also painted flat-black and will advertise the Audi brands Gebrauchtwagen:plus and Audi Top Service. The new DTM boy Mike Rockenfeller will drive a red A4 DTM. The youngest Audi factory driver also gets support from the Quattro GmbH and its S line sport kits and also from EuropeÕs largest car magazine AutoBIld.

The Frenchman Alexandre Premat, just like Luhr and Rockenfeller will display Audi Bank on silver-gold A4. The Schaeffler Group for this year will use the DTM as a platform for three of their brands namely LuK, INA, and GAG. The Schaeffler Group is a development partner and production supplier for Audi. It will be present on the cars of Matthias Ekstrom and Mike Rockenfeller. The other Audi Sport partners for the 2007 DTM are Eibach Springs, O.Z. Racing (wheels), and PTC (Software Solutions).

By Benjamin Hudson.