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MotorWeek Selects Audi A6 to Receive First-Ever Drivers' Choice Best of the Year Award

4 February 1998

MotorWeek Selects Audi A6 to Receive First-Ever Drivers' Choice Best of the Year Award

    CHICAGO, Feb. 4 -- Audi of America, Inc. today announced that
its daring, new 1998 A6 luxury touring sedan has won the first-ever MotorWeek
Drivers' Choice Best of the Year Award.  The A6 was their staff's unanimous
choice for this prestigious award which recognizes overall achievement in the
automotive industry.  The staff also selected the A6 to receive the 1998
Drivers' Choice Best Luxury Car award.
    MotorWeek is television's original automotive magazine and is a national
production of Maryland Public Television.  The MotorWeek Drivers' Choice
Awards, now in their 17th year, are based on a compilation of criteria such as
product integrity, performance, pricing, value and purpose.  MotorWeek
presents these awards to acknowledge the industry's outstanding automotive
product and design for the model year.  More than 150 vehicles are evaluated
each year to enable the MotorWeek staff to select the benchmark in each class.
    The A6 is the center of gravity for Audi's new product line.  With a
longer wheelbase and improved equipment levels over the previous A6, it
delivers on the promise of the A4 sport sedans and the premium, luxury A8, and
reestablishes the heart of Audi's product line with the new standard for
luxury touring sedans.  It was a year ago at the Chicago Auto Show that
MotorWeek honored the Audi A8 with the Drivers' Choice Award for Best Dream
Machine.
    Just last month, the A6 was recognized in Detroit at the North
American International Auto Show as a finalist in the North American Car of
the Year Awards.  It has been on sale in the U.S. since November and helped
contribute to Audi's best sales year in the U.S. since 1987.

SOURCE  Audi of America, Inc.