On the basis of this decision, Audi can now embark on implementing its plan of action for the last around 8,800 diesel automobiles in North America. For the first four engine generations of the 3.0 TDI, the Company had already been able to propose firm solutions to its customers in the United States for their vehicles in stages since November 2017, all of which were approved by the authorities. To date, around 62 percent of the U.S. customers affected have taken up the offer. In Canada, the measures were rolled out one and a half months later. At the moment the completion rate there is around 42 percent.
In the model years 2009 to 2016, the Company offered Audi A8, Audi A7 and Audi A6 as well as Audi Q7 and Audi Q5 models with V6 TDI engines intermittently in North America.
Audi R8 LMS GT4
What a story! In 2016, René Rast made an unexpected debut quite literally overnight in the DTM at Zandvoort. At that time he replaced Adrien Tambay, who had been injured the day before, in Audi Sport Team Rosberg. In 2017, Rast won the title as rookie at the first attempt, but had a difficult weekend in Zandvoort. Two years after his debut he ended Audi’s lean spell in the current DTM season in the dunes on the North Sea.
The race weekend close to the Slovakian capital Bratislava started with a strong performance from Jean-Karl Vernay. The 30-year old Audi Sport driver fought his way up to second place after starting race one in his Audi RS 3 LMS from fifth on the grid. As a result, he finished on the podium for the third time this season and moved up to fourth place in the standings. Three privateer drivers in the top-ten completed the successful weekend opener for the brand: Denis Dupont from Audi Sport Team Comtoyou finished eighth and was second best Audi driver. The 25-year old budding talent scored his first points of the season as a result. Close behind followed the two Frenchmen Aurélien Panis and Nathanaël Berthon from Comtoyou Racing. Berthon scored points for the fifth time this year, Panis for the fourth time.