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| Audi RS 4 Cabriolet Coming to the U.S. for 2008 Model Year |
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| AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Audi of America, Inc. announced today that the RS 4 Cabriolet model will come to U.S. showrooms as a 2008 model, and the RS 4 sedan will have new features and option packages. Approximately 300 of the limited-production RS 4 Cabriolets will be sold in the U.S. The RS 4 Cabriolet models will arrive in fall of 2007. Pricing and equipment for the 2008 RS 4 Cabriolet will be announced at a later date.
The RS 4 Cabriolet shares the same high-revving 4.2 V8 FSI engine found in the RS 4 sedan. It produces 420 hp at 7,800 rpm and 317 ft-lbs. of torque at 5,500 rpm. Like the sedan, the Cabriolet will only be available with a six-speed manual and quattro® all-wheel drive featuring the asymmetrical dynamic torque split. Like the sedan, the Cabriolet will have 19” RS 4-style alloy wheels with 255/35/19 performance tires, a four-link front and trapezoidal-link rear sport-tuned suspension with Dynamic Ride Control (DRC), and 14.4” front and 12.8” rear brake rotors.
The RS 4 sedan also gets some new and unique features for 2008. Two new option packages, the Titanium package and Audi exclusive package, will be available. The $750 Titanium package consists of titanium colored 19” RS 4-style alloy wheels, black front grille, black side window moldings, black interior headliner, and piano black interior trim. The $3,800 Audi exclusive package has Crimson red leather seat centers (black leather side bolsters and head rests) and door trim, contrasting red seat piping, red stitching on the shift boot and steering wheel, piano black interior trim, carpeted floor mats with RS 4 logo and contrasting piping, and Audi exclusive badging. Sirius satellite radio and Bluetooth will become standard equipment on the RS 4 sedan.
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| Fiat says Cinquecento will become the iPod of cars |
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| MILAN (Reuters) - It was the small car you could park in the narrowest space on the piazza, as Italian as Prosciutto and espresso. On its 50th birthday the Cinquecento is back, and Fiat says it will become the iPod of cars.
Fiat is launching a new version of the three-door Cinquecento -- which means "500" in Italian -- at a ceremony in its hometown of Turin on Wednesday, with the car making its comeback after going out of production in the 1970s.
Fiat's chief executive says he wants to emulate Apple by making its cars as stylish as the U.S. company's computers and electronic gadgets, including the mass-selling iPod portable music player.
"I want Fiat to become the Apple of cars," Sergio Marchionne told La Stampa newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.
"And the Cinquecento will be our iPod," he said, referring to Apple's hugely successful iPod.
Like the Mini or the Volkswagen Beetle, the Cinquecento is an icon. For Italians, it epitomizes the economic boom that their country enjoyed after the Second World War.
Cheap and efficient, it gradually replaced the scooter for millions of people whose living standards improved dramatically during the 1950s and 1960s.
After 18 years on the road the Cinquecento went out of production in 1975.
Marchionne said he was working to make Fiat a nimble automaker after a successful restructuring.
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