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Audi Club General Membership Meeting
Tuesday January 14th
7:00 pm
Patrick's Resturant & Sports Bar, 342 Westport Plaza, Maryland Heights
This month's general membership meeting will be held at 7:00 pm at Patrick's at Westport. We'll be planning our events and activities for 2014 and disussing what we did right and wrong in 2013.
If you want to come by early, the Board of Directors will be meet at 6:00 to elect officers, assign committees & appoint committee chairs. We will then begin working on our calendar of events for 2014.
Be sure to come out, bring your ideas and your appetite. Eeveryone is welcome for either or both meetings. We really want to hear your ideas for club events and activities.
Patrick's has a great menu, a fully stocked bar and plenty of seating. Get there a little early for drink specials (Happy hour is 2-7 pm every weekday).
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Car Club Swap Meet
Saturday February 1st
11:00am
Exotic Motors Midwest 9710 Manchester Road, Rock Hill - Just West of Starbucks
Keith Emery, Service Manager of Exotic Motors Midwest has invited all local car club members (and other enthusiasts) to visit the shop on Manchester Road in Rock Hill (just west of the Cars & Coffee location) on Saturday February 1st for their first Car Club Swap Meet. Whether you Buy, Sell, of just peruse, there should be some great items to see.
Additionally, Exotic Motors Midwest inventories some of the coolest pre-owned exotic and luxury cars available in St. Louis.
If you wish to sell some items at this Swap meet, the Audi Club will have a table availabe for a few small items, or if you have some bigger items to sell, contact Keith at (314) 561-9766 to arrange for space. There is no charge to sell your items. Set up is at 10:00 am, the meet begins at 11:00 am.
Although the meet will be held indoors, if the weather does not cooperate, the Rain Date is Saturday, February 8th
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Other Upcoming Events
- January 14 - Board Meeting: 6:00 pm - Patrick's at Westport
- January 14 - General Membership Meeting: 7:00 pm - Patrick's at Westport
- January 25 - Collectible Cars & Coffee: 11:00 am - Designs in Motion
- February 1 - Car Club Swap Meet: 11:00 am - Exotic Motors Midwest
- February 8 - Rain Date - Car Club Swap Meet
- February 11 - Audi Club Social: TBD
What do YOU want to see here? Come to the meetings on January 14th and let us know!
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The New St. Louis Audi Club Business Cards Have Arrived
Help your club grow! Carry a few of these business cards with you and, whenever you meet someone else with an Audi, give them a club card.
With this card, club benefits, contact information and even a QR link to our website and membership information is at their fingertips.
Contact Steve Warren to obtain a supply of cards. |
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Audi Sales Top 1.57 Million Units in 2013
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Audi managed to sell close to 1,575,500 vehicles in 2013, setting a new record for the brand and achieving a 1.5 million unit sales milestone two years ahead of schedule. Audi’s sales success was on the back of strong demand for its latest A3 compact family and its SUV and crossover range, which helped bring in plenty of new customers. The automaker boasts that over the past four years more than 600,000 newcomers to the brand have been registered.
“We set an important milestone for Audi in the past year: We achieved our intermediate strategic goal of 1.5 million deliveries two years earlier than planned, and in fact comfortably exceeded it,” Audi CEO Rupert Stadler said in a statement. “This means that in the past four years alone, Audi has attracted more than 600,000 new customers.”
Audi’s sales in 2013 were up 8.3 percent on the previous year’s total of 1,455,100 vehicles. Major growth drivers over the past year were Audi’s three biggest export markets, all of which reported double-digit growth: with China up 21.2 percent, the U.S. up 13.5 percent, and the U.K. up 14.9 percent. In the U.S. Audi sold 158,061 vehicles, making it the sixth most popular brand for luxury autos.
Audi’s home market of Germany was still its biggest customer, with 250,025 sales being registered there over the past year. Audi couldn’t escape Europe’s economic downturn, however, with the German sales figure coming in 5 percent lower than last year. Sales were also down in many other European countries: with France down 8.3 percent, Italy down 6.1 percent and Spain down 3.2 percent. Audi sales for the European region as a whole were down 0.9 percent from 2012.
Audi’s new target is to achieve 2 million annual sales by 2020. To reach this target it will invest $30 billion over the next five years and introduce 11 brand new models, increasing the size of its fleet to 60 different models.
MotorAuthority.com
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