Collectible Cars & Coffee
Saturday January 25th
11:00 am
Designs in Motion - 140 Long Road, Chesterfield
Greg White of Designs in Motion has invited members of local car clubs to visit his shop on Saturday, January 25th for a morning of car camaraderie and diecast cars. Designs in Motion is open at 9:00 am on Saturdays, but on this special day, Greg will offer refreshments beginning at 11:00 am. Shake off the winter blues with your car friends and browse the finest in diecast models like the 1:18th scale 1988 Audi Quattro LWB pictured above.
Designs In Motion is one of the nation's leading sources for high quality diecast collectibles. DIM offers competitive prices, a huge selection (over 1,800 items), and individualized service. Greg White, owner, has extensive knowledge of sports, racing, and high performance cars from around the world, and usually knows the detailed history of each piece.
DIM carries only the finest, true-to-scale collectibles specializing in 1:18 and 1:43 scale. For this reason, we do not carry many "toy" lines, and those with lower build quality and detail standards. Designs In Motion seeks the most direct source of supply, so prices to you stay as low as possible.
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Rolex 24 at Daytona Watch Party
Sunday Jan. 26th
11:00 am
Satchmo's Bar & Grill - 13375 Olive Blvd, Chesterfield
The 52nd anniversary Rolex 24 At Daytona will be the first race for TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the newly unified organization between the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. Celebrate the start of a new era, as America's two major sports car racing leagues unify for their history-making first race.
Join your Audi Club friends at Satchmo's to watch the final few hours of this historic race. |
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 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: 33 Wine Bar & Tasting Room/Lafayette Square
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 Allroad Shooting Brake Concept Shown at Detroit Auto Show
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We're in the thick of the action-packed new car festival that is the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, and even though muscle and sports car fans have probably fainted from the excitement, there's a lot of other interesting stuff going on, too. Case in point: the Audi Allroad Shooting Brake concept.
These live photos of the new Allroad Shooting Brake concept give us our first eyes-on look at the brand's new high-tech cockpit in a full installation. Previewed at CES, the new instrument-panel-only display and fresh design theme gave us a tantalizing hint of what to expect for the 2015 Audi TT. Now, it's been packaged into something that also blends the new TT's exterior styling with dashes of a potential Q1 crossover.
As previously announced, the Allroad Shooting Brake concept will be 13.78 feet long, and rides on 19-inch wheels. The full information reveals that the ASB is not just a pint-sized soft-roader, but an exhibition of some of Audi’s forward-looking hybrid technology as well—hence the e-tron badge.
Audi estimates the ASB can achieve as much as 123.8 mpg, a stunning figure for any car, let alone a crossover. While that figure would likely get knocked down a bit—or perhaps more than a bit—in real EPA testing, it’s still a moonshot for a tallish hatchback.
So how does the ASB get there? Through a hybrid drive system, of course. Pairing two electric motors, one for each end, with a 2.0-liter TFSI turbocharged four-cylinder engine, the hybrid drivetrain generates a gob-smacking total (given the gas mileage mentioned above) 408 total horsepower. The result: 4.6-second 0-60 mph times and a top speed that has to be electronically limited to 155 mph. Total range is 509 miles thanks to a tiny 4.11 gallon tank.
Lest you think Audi is cheating by using some super light, not-production-valid materials or methods, the company claims the show car weighs a fairly stout 3,527 pounds as it sits.
Combining power and efficiency, the ASB can run in EV mode, using electricity only, at speeds of up to 80.78 mph and for a range of 31 miles thanks to an 8.8-kWh battery pack. Hybrid mode drives as you’d expect, using both the gasoline engine and the electric motors together, including regenerative mode when decelerating. Sport mode unleashes the system to produce its maximum power, letting the motor on the rear axle engage fully to boost overall acceleration. A driver-selectable “Hold” or “Charge” function allows the engine to either maintain or increase the battery pack’s level of charge on the fly.
The ASB isn’t just about future hybrid drivetrain tech, though. It’s also about very near-future in-cabin tech. The interior, as noted, was previewed for the 2015 Audi TT at the Consumer Electronics Show last week; here, we see it fully implemented. The new driver-centric 12.3-inch instrument panel multifunction display frees up design of the center stack and dashboard, while also tying into a redesigned MMI interface terminal. The new MMI control interface sits right under the driver’s hand in the center console, next to the e-S tronic (shift-by-wire) gear selector.
MotorAuthority.com
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