Safety & Accident

HERNDON, VA - Audi is using innovative thinking to further advance development in this field. The engineers in Ingolstadt have focused particular attention on safety belts, airbags, and seats/headrests.

Tags: A4, A5, Audi, Q5

HERNDON, VA - Audi engineers in Ingolstadt have focused particular attention on safety belts, airbags, and seats/headrests. These components interact intelligently in model lines such as the A4, A5, and Q5 to provide maximum protection for the occupants during an accident.

Tags: Audi, Vehicle Safety

HERNDON, VA - Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. announced it would initiate a new customer service program to address concerns raised by its customers with certain Direct Shift Gearboxes (DSG) in Volkswagen and Audi models.

Tags: Audi, Direct Shift Gearboxes , Recall, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. , VWGoA

HERNDON, VA - The Audi Q5 crossover vehicle earned a Top Safety Pick award for 2009 from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), and received the highest front and side crash ratings from U.S. safety regulators.

Tags: Audi, IIHS, NHTSA, Q5

HERNDON, VA - The all-new 2009 Audi A4 has required fewer repairs than other recently introduced upscale sedans.

Tags: A4, Audi, Car Reliability Survey (CRS), TrueDelta, VW

EL SEGUNDO, CA - Swedish automaker Volvo remains the worldwide leader in deployment of vehicle safety systems in the United States for the 2009 model-year, with an average of five per car.

Tags: Audi, BMW 7 Series , Cadillac, Infiniti, iSuppli Corp. , S80, Safety, V70, Volvo, XC60, XC70

AUBURN HILLS, MI – Stopping, starting, and accelerating your car or SUV can burn unnecessary amounts of fuel while driving. To combat this challenge, two new technologies have recently come out to provide a greener driving experience.

Tags: Audi, Eco Pedal, IIHS, Nissan, Travolution, Volvo, Volvo City Safety

AUBURN HILLS, MI – Audi’s Q7 flagship SUV has received the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) award for Top Safety Pick.

Tags: Audi, IIHS, Q7, Top Safety Pick

HERNDON, VA – The Audi Q7, a luxury performance SUV, earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) Top Safety Pick award for 2008. The 2008 Q7 received a “good” rating in all three crash tests: side impact, offset frontal, and rear impact seat tests.

Tags: Audi, IIHS, Q7, Safety Rating, Top Safety Pick

BILLERICA, MASS. & HERZELIYA, ISRAEL – Voltaire Ltd., a provider of grid backbone solutions for data centers, announced that Audi has implemented Voltaire’s Grid Director switches as part of an HP supercomputer to advance Audi’s auto safety standards.

Tags: Audi, HP Supercomputer, Voltaire