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Unmodified Audi A6 Tackles Highest Dune in the Northern Emirates
By source: Audi Middle East
May 9, 2006, 19:35

Once more Audi aims to prove its claim “Vorsprung durch Technik” (Advancement through Technology) through a spectacular challenge in the deserts sands of the UAE: to drive up the highest dune in the Northern Emirates - the “Big Red” near Al Nizwa – in a limousine car.

In front of an audience of VIP guests and media, the completely unmodified Audi A6 3.2 saloon with quattro permanent four-wheel drive went up the dune in a straight line smooth and trouble free – an angle of 60 percent. The dune is especially popular for off-roading and with a height of approximately 100 m above sea level is ideal for the stunt. Members of the audience afterwards had the chance to test their own driving skills and take on the challenge themselves. Audi quattro first wrote history in Kaipola/Finland in 1986, where an Audi with quattro drive proved capable of driving up an Olympic ski jump with a gradient of 80 percent. The quattro system, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with the Middle East quattro tour, is just one of Audi's developments which ensures the crucial difference in sportiness, safety and efficiency for its drivers - ‘advantage' or ‘Vorsprung'. Further in line in a history of ideas follow the Audi Space Frame, multitronic, tiptronic, DSG, FSI and as well as TDI, which in the Audi R10 was the first diesel engine to win the 12 hours of Sebring in March 2006.

The automobile was invented in 1886. Audi invents every day.

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As a global developer and manufacturer of high-quality cars and engines, Audi has major production sites in Germany, Hungary, Brazil and China. Within the Volkswagen Group, Audi is responsible for the sporty brand group which also includes the SEAT and Lamborghini brands.

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