Zie Germans love efficiency, zie love nature, luxury, conquering ze french, machines, apffelkorn, and chocolate. (apffelkorn gets its own post) We focus this post on ze machines.
It is plain to see the genius of German green engineering and design when one looks at the expensive Liebherr WS 14300 three-temperature zone wine storage cabinet with energy efficient LED lighting that is cool to the touch and will not overheat bottles, and contains charcoal filters to ensure high air quality free of dust, dirt and smells. When Germans show such ingenuity safeguarding the wines they import for France, it is not surprising they show so much more love for their cars.
The newest generation of Audi owners are in for a special treat:i
1) Driving an Audi Makes you Breathe Easier: Part of the available dual-zone climate control, air quality sensors constantly monitor pollutants outside your car. If it senses limits are being exceeded, the system automatically begins to recycle air- keeping those harmful pollutants as far away from you as possible.
2)As strongly as You Recognize Your Audi, It Returns the Compliment Right Back:
the Advanced Key even makes holding an actual key in your hand moot, since once you get within five feet of your Audi, it's identified on your person via proximity sensors. Essentially, you just pull the door handle or trunk latch and the system unlocks automatically. It is specifically designed to match your body
signature.3)Your Audi keeps itself cool:
Light-sensitive elements under your sunroof produce enough electricity on their own to run the ventilation inside your Audi. Even if the ignition is off, these solar elements supply the interior with a continuous flow of fresh air that's purified as it passes thought the dust and pollen filter, cutting temperature levels inside the vehicle by as much as 50 percent.
4)That Paint Color that looks so liquid like, really is: Audi Paints are based on water, which reduces harmful compounds that usually contaminate air quality, by 85%.
5)The Recycling Engine:
exhaust gas recirculation actually lowers combustion temperatures diminishing nitrogen oxides inside the engine, thereby reducing those outside as well. It is effective because nitrogen oxides tend to rise disproportionately with increased combustion temperature.
6)Their leather is infused with rhubarb: Now we know what all the people who grow rhubarb in Minnesota do with their extras, send them to Audi manufactures so they can smear the good stuff all over their leather seats. Using Rhubarb creates no environmental wastes, unlike other chemicals used to treat leather. They also use tree bark. Next modification: the edible car?
7)12 year warranty on rust. Well I hope so for what you are paying, but still, interesting
8)Your Audi speaks to you: The voice recognition-speech system is so advanced that is can understand accents and dialects and can identify words spoken so quickly, they run together. Be careful what you say, it may be able to understand you too well. Think Kit from Night rider.
9)Biological Nano Technology?: Not yet, but the Audi can repair itself from minor collisions. So don't worry about the 5 mph love taps when you're parking at Anna's Taqueria.
10)Like Dogs, all Audis go to heaven: 95% of all scrap used in production is recycled, and when an Audi reaches the end of its life, it is humanely disassembled and reused to make more Audis. Reincarnation never seemed so darn rational.
i: some information acquired from Audi Magazine 2/07
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