Hi,

I just spotted the latest ALT speakers in the new Audi A8. See the photo at the rights side.

Regards, Robert

 

And the A8 outside:

A nice Scoop, Robert!

Roger

Sorry, but what a horrible looking car!!

Thanks for sharing, Robert. I do prefer the outgoing model, though, both inside and out. Audi design is usually good (and predictable) but the headlights spoil the front of this car.

Car looks great to me :-)...

If this is how it is really going to look; I must admit the Audi people are brave. In my eyes this car looks terrible, but maybe you get used to it over time. However the last 7-series BMW I never got used to...

Hmmm... I like it!

I have a D2 and a D3 presently 

Nice to see that they got the MMI moved, but they have moved to the key push start -not sure if I like that!

Rob:

Car looks great to me :-)...

 

Me too

beaker:

Sorry, but what a horrible looking car!!

Get a grip Beaker!   It's gorgeous!

i hate the current trends in car (frontal) design - all they ever look like is either a Pokemon or an angry lizard. Well I got used to the flapping jaw in the Audis, so maybe this will pass with time as well... Love the interior though.

tournedos:

i hate the current trends in car (frontal) design - all they ever look like is either a Pokemon or an angry lizard. Well I got used to the flapping jaw in the Audis, so maybe this will pass with time as well... Love the interior though.

Angry lizard... great description!

I must admit that it took a while to get used to the cow yoke grill as well. Fortunately, my state does not have a front plate requirement, so I have been able to use the cleaner grill fill plates. The new light systems on the other hand... still trying to get used to them!

Audi's interiors have always been one of my favorites... very subtle. This new rev appears to be getting a bit busy, especially the newer teardrop speaker shapes, but it is very beautiful! Maybe that is why I always tend to go for black/dark interiors.

I love Audis, but this one just doesn't go well with my eyes. I think it looks like an A4 that has been stretched, with a bad result.

A thing that I really like about cardesign are the lights, and Audis LED lights are incredible, but I don't like the LED form in these lights.

Well, maybe I just need to get used to the looks, but it isn't love at first sight for me.

For me they had the headlights perfect, these... not so much. I don't understand why they couldn't carry over a similar design from r8 or a5/s5. Couldn't leave well enough alone.

I agree with Mika. It will probably grow on me over time. Most ugly/different cars usually do become appealing to me after a while.

Has the volume control knob moved or is it in the same place as it was in the old car? Can't really tell from the pic.

Just found it on B&O site.

burantek:

Audi's interiors have always been one of my favorites... very subtle. This new rev appears to be getting a bit busy, especially the newer teardrop speaker shapes, but it is very beautiful! Maybe that is why I always tend to go for black/dark interiors.

Some years ago I test drove an early 2000's M-B S-something in Germany. The light interior in that was pretty much perfect to my eyes, smooth forms, no clutter - although the light interiors are always bad at night and at dusk. Too many annoying reflections.

The problem with most luxury cars nowadays is that they don't look like what they are, and if they do, they do it in a tacky way. Years ago on the Cadillac mailing list somebody formulated this spot on - the quality that is needed is "commanding presence". Cadillac found it in the 1930's and it stayed until it was sadly mostly lost in the '80s downsizing. Even a complete automotive heathen will immediately know what kind of a car just pulled up. Mostly this was achieved in a subtle way, keeping some familiar cues for decades - like the Eldorado waist line from early 50's to the late 70's - and in how the tail fins transformed into vertical taillights. Don't give me the BMW kidneys, splatting them onto any form is just too easy. They are also able to carry their size and not look out of proportion.

M-B has some of this - my friend has a 350S from 1968 and it certainly doesn't feel like a common taxicab when you sit in it - but they just don't seem to last that long before looking outdated and baroque. Now they seem to have let the same self-educated carpenter that did the G(eländewagen) design the entire range, and it bores me out of my skull. I'll bet they'll be radically changed in five years.

So, the luxury and semi-luxury cars of today mostly look like overblown family sedans, with "commanding presence" far and between. The biggest dissappointment I had was probably some years ago when I was in a half comatose condition leaning on the window of a tram in Prague. It drove past the Opera house, and I remember thinking how "that VW Phaeton on the ramp has a funny logo on the tail...". A bit later it dawned upon me that it was a Maybach. It may be a great automobile and the price certainly is great, but don't get one thinking the peasants will be acknowledging you for that decision.

Oh well, at least this Audi will probably have a mindblowing sound system. Thanks for listening to the rant, I'll now return to autocorrelations and adaptive filtering

Does anyone know who the fourth automaker B&O is partnering with is? B&O mention a fourth maker in the interim report Q1 09/10 but didn't specify.

mercedes

see my previous post / thread

I count 3; Audi, Aston Martin and Merc.

evman140:

Has the volume control knob moved or is it in the same place as it was in the old car? Can't really tell from the pic.

From my first post...

burantek:

Nice to see that they got the MMI moved

(i.e.) Yes!

Here is my D3 for comparison... (cell photo, sorry)

Miami Herald first look... more pics too! 

I like the car, except for one thing: what is that illuminated strip on the inside of the car, surrounding the roof console?  Hopefully it turns off when one is driving the vehicle.

 

-multimedia Robert-:

 

XavierItzmann:

I like the car, except for one thing: what is that illuminated strip on the inside of the car, surrounding the roof console?  Hopefully it turns off when one is driving the vehicle.

That would be the interior courtesy light ON. If you pan to the right... the passenger door is ajar, as likely the rear is to take the pic. I suppose they could have turned it off...

burantek:

XavierItzmann:

I like the car, except for one thing: what is that illuminated strip on the inside of the car, surrounding the roof console?  Hopefully it turns off when one is driving the vehicle.

That would be the interior courtesy light ON. If you pan to the right... the passenger door is ajar, as likely the rear is to take the pic. I suppose they could have turned it off...

They probably want you to see it in the first place in these pics.

evman140:

burantek:

XavierItzmann:

I like the car, except for one thing: what is that illuminated strip on the inside of the car, surrounding the roof console?  Hopefully it turns off when one is driving the vehicle.

That would be the interior courtesy light ON. If you pan to the right... the passenger door is ajar, as likely the rear is to take the pic. I suppose they could have turned it off...

 

They probably want you to see it in the first place in these pics.

You can adjust the color setting of the courtesy light. See the pics.