Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Audi succumbs – drops fake exhaust pipes

Audi has long maintained that consumers could be deceived with the illusion of exhaust pipes. However, feedback from customers has been so bad that the Germans are now stopping again.

For many years, Audi has equipped its cars with fake exhaust pipes. Specifically fake tail rudders. And for at least as long, criticism has rained down on the brand.

So now the Germans have had enough. On the new Audi A5, which looks like any other Audi from the last 20 years, one important detail has been changed.

The real exhaust rudders are back on the cars. This is confirmed by an Audi spokesperson to Auto Express .

– All cars on the PPC platform, Premium Platform Combustion, will have 'warm', functional tails, it says.

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However, it is not only on cars with a combustion engine that Audi drops the illusion of exhaust pipes. The same is the case with electric cars.

In the past, Audi has made cutouts in the rear bumper on several of its electric cars. Cutouts that should look suspiciously like exhaust pipes. But these kinds of scams are also over.

The new Audi Q6 is one of the first electric cars from Ingolstadt to ditch the fakes. The upcoming A6 e-tron will not be equipped with it either. However, the concept car has two huge 'holes' in each corner of the diffuser. Something that can still be reminiscent of the rudder tails from a car with a combustion engine.

The first fossil car to undergo the change is the new Audi A5. A car that will both do it for the current A4 and A5. Read more about that car here .

However, it will all be a stacked deadline. Because the Germans swear that they will put all cars with internal combustion engines in the grave. In fact, Audi promises that it will not launch a single new car if it does not run on electricity in 2026. So in just a year and a half.

How long the cars on the PPC platform will be allowed to survive is not known. However, Audi is well on its way to killing everything with a combustion engine around it for days. Cars like the TT, R8 and S5 have already disappeared.

Danish prices for the new A5, which comes as both a sedan and a station wagon (Avant in Audi's terminology, ed.) with a diesel engine, are not yet available.

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