CUPRA Raval VZ - CUSTOM CUPRA by ABT
CUPRA Raval VZ - CUSTOM CUPRA by ABT
For three decades, the Audi A3 has been appreciated all over the world. With its combination of everyday practicality, premium character, and technical innovation, the model has established itself as a fixture in the international automotive market. From the very beginning, the model series has been produced at Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt. In addition, due to high demand, local production began in 1999 at the São José dos Pinhais plant in Brazil. In the early 2000s, production was expanded to include the Győr plant at Audi Hungaria. To this day, the Audi A3 remains a key contributor to the brand’s identity. Since production first began, more than six million A3 models have rolled off the assembly line and been delivered to over 100 countries worldwide—making it one of the most successful model series for the brand with the four rings.
The new Audi Q9 marks the production debut of a technological world first: for the first time in the automotive industry, a three-dimensionally curved digital OLED panel is being used. Third-generation digital OLED technology now offers new possibilities for safety and communication. The Audi Q9 thus marks a milestone in the development of Audi lighting technology, whose OLED success story began ten years ago. As the only automotive manufacturer to consistently advance OLED technology, Audi has transformed it from an innovative light source into an intelligent, digital means of communication.
Performance has traditionally been measured in numbers: horsepower, acceleration, cornering G-forces and lap times. But as electric cars increasingly level the field by delivering extraordinary levels of traditional performance, a new question is emerging: how do we measure what performance feels like to the human behind the wheel? A new pilot study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s SDG Impact Lab, in collaboration with Polestar, has taken a first step towards answering that question. The study combined vehicle telemetry with heart-rate monitoring, eye tracking, psychological assessments and interviews to explore the relationship between what a performance car does and how the human driver responds. Twelve drivers drove two versions of Polestar 4: Rear motor and Dual motor with Performance pack – in both calm and dynamic driving conditions at Gotland Ring in Sweden. The pilot found that several measures were sensitive to changes in driving conditions and vehicle performance. During dynamic driving, participants blinked less, their pupils became larger and they held their gaze longer – patterns consistent with deeper attentional engagement. Vehicle telemetry could also be linked to changes in drivers’ physiological activation, allowing researchers to examine the driver’s response alongside what the car was doing. The comparison between the two cars also revealed differences in how performance was delivered. On matched fast laps, the Polestar 4 Dual motor with Performance pack made use of its considerable power increase over the Polestar 4 Rear motor (400 kW/544 hp versus 200 kW/268 hp) to deliver greater peak performance and less steering effort on circuit: 32% higher peak acceleration while requiring 15% less steering effort. It also generated greater cornering loads and more frequent hard-acceleration events.
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