New Audi A5 Sportback at Dubai Motor Show

Audi is presenting a new vehicle concept at this year's 10th Dubai International Motor Show - the Audi A5 Sportback. The five-door model with the long, flowing rear end unites the best of various vehicle genres: the emotion and elegance of a coupe, the comfort of a sedan and the practicality of a station wagon. Visitors can view the latest Audi model and many others at the show from December 16 to 20.

The Sportback joins the Coupé and Cabriolet as the third member of the A5 model family, featuring an emotion-packed design, high everyday practicality, a sporty character and engines that are as efficient as they are powerful. Audi is setting new trends in design with the A5 Sportback. The five-door coupe is defined by elegant lines. It is 36 millimeters lower than the A4 Sedan; with its short front overhang, long wheelbase, wide track and the four frameless doors with their slender window lines, it is the very picture of sporty elegance.

The interior is spacious, offering uncompromising comfort in all four seats. The large luggage compartment hatch is harmoniously integrated into the long, tapered tail end with the flat C pillars; the spoiler lip underscores the tension-filled character. The luggage compartment volume of 480 liters nearly matches that of the A4 Avant and increases to 980 liters with the rear seats folded down.

The A5 Sportback follows the consistent path of innovative technologies at Audi when it comes to the drivetrain. The launch engine for the Middle East will be a 211 bhp 2.0 TFSI, which delivers its power to the quattro permanent all-wheel drive system. Like all other models it is equipped with a recuperation system that recovers energy during braking and deceleration and stores it temporarily in the battery.

The perfect complement is the optional Audi drive select vehicle dynamics system, which enables the driver to freely vary the throttle response characteristic, the shifting points of the seven-speed S tronic, and the boost provided by the servotronic steering system, both of which come as a standard.

Rolls-Royce aims to drive in over 70 cars to India by 2013

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, maker of the ultra-luxury Phantom, is betting big on the Indian market.



After selling 12 of its hand-crafted uber-premium cars in India in 2007, the company is looking at much bigger orders from this market. India is all set to emerge as the single-biggest market in the Asia-Pacific region in the next five years.



Rolls-Royce aims to sell over 70 cars in India by 2013. The BMW group company is currently developing the new range of cars at its facility in Goodwood, England, and plans to introduce the new models in India in the next few years.



Rolls-Royce director (sales & marketing) Graema Grieve said: “The new family will not compete with Phantom, but it will be the second most expensive in the world. We have seen a massive rise in the number of ultra-high networth individuals in India, which make the market very impressive for us. As an exclusive brand, we are looking at the top end of the personalised car market and we expect India to emerge as the largest market in the Asia-Pacific region in the next five years.”

Rolls-Royce to drive in new range of cars to India by 2010

Super luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce will introduce new range of cars, which it is currently developing, in India by mid-2010 as it looks to cash in on the burgeoning number of billionaires.
The company is also expanding its current portfolio in the country and will launch a new model, Phantom Coupe, this year, expected to be priced over Rs 3.5 crore.

"We are working on an additional range of cars, which will allow us to expand the brand further. The new family will not compete with the Phantom, but it will be the second most expensive in the world," Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Director (Sales and Marketing) Graeme Grieve told reporters here.

"It will come to the Indian market by mid-2010," he added The BMW group company is currently developing the new range of cars at its facility in Goodwood, England.

Rolls-Royce currently offers three products -- Phantom, Phantom EWB and Phantom Drophead Coupe -- in India. These models are priced at Rs 3.15 crore (ex-showroom) upwards.

"With the growing demand for our cars in India, we will be launching here our fourth car in Phantom family, Coupe, around November," Rolls-Royce Motor Cars General Manager (South and East Asia Pacific) Matthew J Bennett said.

The car is priced at about 4,00,000 dollar (over Rs 1.82 crore) in the international market. The vehicle in India would attract an import duty of over 110 per cent.

The company, which reentered India in 2005, has since sold about 30 cars, including 12 units last year.

"This year, we have already sold 12 cars. If we can sell 16 cars in this year, we will be very happy," Bennett said.

After Mumbai, the company today inaugurated its second dealership in the National Capital.

Last year, Rolls-Royce sold 1,010 cars through 82 dealers across the world.