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New Audi A6 focuses on high-tech offering

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High tech features on new Audi A6; both petrol and diesel engines will offer mild hybridisation

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7 March 2018

New Audi A6 in brief

  • New Audi A6 Saloon available to order in the UK this summer
  • All-digital control system
  • Comprehensive connectivity
  • Mild hybrid technology

AUDI is upgrading its executive A6 to all-new status by cascading some refinements and innovations down from the luxury flagship A8.

So good news for executives considering their next company car. Audi reckons they are offering a first class journey with a business class ticket for the new Audi A6.

So what can you expect from the new Audi A8?

An all-digital operating system with its touchscreen format provides haptic and acoustic response to inputs and offers fast access to vehicle functions thanks a logical and flat menu structure – that’s once you’ve sat down and read the manual presumably.

Configurable favourites buttons help tailor the system to the user’s preferences, and it allows up to seven drivers to store preferred settings in individual user profiles and set up to 400 parameters.

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New Audi A6 intrior has all-digital operating system with touchscreen format

Central vehicle functions can be switched around on one of the two screens using drag-and-drop – similar to smartphone apps.

Language voice control can processes questions and commands in two ways, with onboard stored data and also – in conjunction with MMI navigation plus – with detailed knowledge from the cloud.

Optional MMI navigation Plus offers a host of new features. These include a self-learning function based on driven routes, which generates intelligent search suggestions. Route guidance is provided online on the servers run by service provider HERE; these servers factor in the traffic situation in the entire region. If the flow of data is interrupted, the navigation switches to the online route guidance that runs in parallel.

Audi connect online services also provide the car-to-X services traffic sign and hazard information. They use the swarm intelligence from the Audi fleet and network the Audi A6 with its environment. Shortly after launch, the on-street parking service will be added, which makes looking for a parking space easier. Using the myAudi app, owners of the new A6 can access the brand’s digital services via a smartphone.

As an option, the Audi connect key replaces the conventional vehicle key. It allows an Android smartphone to lock and unlock the car and start the engine. Near Field Communication transfers data to the car. The owner can pass the access data onto five people or smartphones.

Parking pilot and the garage pilot will become available at a later date and will be capable of autonomously manoeuvring the car into and out of a parking space or garage. The driver can get out of the car before activating and monitoring the process using the myAudi app.

All engines in the new A6 feature new mild-hybrid technology. A belt alternator starter (BAS) works with a lithium-ion battery, enabling the A6 to coast at speeds of between 34mph and 99mph. The engine is restarted predictively as soon as the vehicle in front starts moving. During deceleration, the BAS recovers up to 12 kW of energy.

There will be two engines for the new Audi A6 at initial launch.

One is a TFSI petrol and one a TDI diesel.

The petrol unit (39.7mpg – 42.1mpg, CO2 emissions 151 g/km – 161 g/km) is a 3.0 TFSI. The V6 turbocharged engine powers the saloon from rest to 62mph in 5.1 seconds using its 340 PS and 500 Nm.

The 3.0 TDI engine with 286PS delivers similar performance (combined fuel economy 48.7mpg – 51.3mpg, combined CO2 emissions 142 g/km – 150 g/km), with the help of an impressive 620 Nm torque peak.

All A6 models will be exclusively equipped with automatic transmission. The 3.0 TDI unit is paired with an eight-speed tiptronic and the 3.0 TFSI with a seven-speed S tronic.

All cars will feature quattro all-wheel drive as standard.

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new Audi A6

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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