Mercedes-Benz and Audi notched sales gains exceeding 35% last year, easily outpacing a sluggish market there.
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Architizer and Audi will host a discussion forum for architects and designers on Monday, 7 p.m.
The same company offers the Red Rock Experience with exotics from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley, Jaguar and Audi.
Later this year, Mercedes, BMW and Audi will bring their own so-called "clean" diesels to the United States.
BMW, Honda, Lexus and Audi all reported volume gains of between 1.4% and 24% compared with March 2000.
Audi and BMW have shown self-driving concept cars, and Audi had a TT drive itself up Pikes Peak.
Over the last three years, the three hottest brands in the U.S. market have been Ford, Hyundai and Audi.
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Upscale men have no shortage of brand courtiers, and Audi, Ralph Lauren and Patron have each paid for such posts.
The automaker has already rolled out a new vehicle ATS to compete directly against BMW 3 series and Audi A4.
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The so-called DualTronic transmission technology debuted in 2003 in the Volkswagen Golf and Audi TT and is quickly gaining popularity in Europe.
"TI and Audi's collaboration has produced a truly paramount automotive infotainment system, " said Matthew Watson, product line manager, audio and infotainment, TI.
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Toyota and Honda have such powertrains, and so have VW and Audi.
The carmaker sold close to 30, 000 Cadillac cars in China in 2012, whereas both BMW and Audi sell more than 300, 000 vehicles there.
Volkswagen and Audi only recently emerged from big quality problems, such as Audis' tendency towards random acceleration, in the 1980s and early '90s.
And even though, in Europe, Volkswagen and Audi are building fine, high-mileage small cars that get 70 mpg, they aren't selling well enough.
Volkswagen has to make sure the four-cylinder engine in the Jetta and Audi A4 doesn't outperform the six-cylinder in the Passat and Audi A6.
The mighty 12 is backed up by an eight-speed transmission and Audi's Quattro all-wheel drive system (with electrically locking front and rear differentials, no less).
Its bread-and-butter marques, of course, are VW and Audi passenger cars.
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The Autobahnpolizei drive specially outfitted police cars and motorcycles made by BMW, Mercedes Benz and Audi, some of which are unmarked, allowing them to patrol undercover for reckless drivers.
Winterkorn worked in a variety of quality and production roles at VW and Audi, earning a reputation as a boss who obsesses about the tiniest product details.
The chief executives of Ford and Audi will speak at the show and connected home appliances will be highlighted as a CES category for the first time.
It was a second straight win both for the victorious trio of Biela, Pirro and Werner - who took the chequered flag - and Audi diesel power.
While Volkswagen and Audi have stood out as the primary forces behind the clean-diesel market in America so far, other OEMs are nudging forward with their own models.
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The new VW Golf and Audi A3, for example, are the first of about 40 new small and midsize models that will be developed using the small-car tool kit.
Careal is also the holding company for AMAG, which sells Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda and Audi vehicles, and also has real estate interests such as the Bellerive hotel in Lausanne.
For one, it will make the recorders mandatory in all vehicles starting in 2015, meaning that manufacturers who have not been including them (such as Mercedes-Benz and Audi) will have to start.
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In the US car industry, if recent ads in the 2013 Super Bowl were anything to go on, next generation automotive brands feel like Ram and Audi over others that dominate the market.
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Tellingly, he points out that successful models in America, from the likes of Honda, Toyota and Audi, offer these baubles only as expensive (ie, profitable) extras, because the basic cars are attractive enough in their own right.
Volkswagen and Audi have been most committed to diesel in the U.S. market, with Audi planning this year to stretch its Turbo Direct Injection clean-diesel option across most of its highest-volume models, and VW pushing to get diesel penetration of its Passat mid-sized sedan to around 25 percent.
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