Audi A6

The Audi A6 is an executive car produced by the German automaker Audi AG at their factory in Neckarsulm, Germany. It is available in both saloon, and Avant (Audi's term for an estate) body styles.
All generations of the A6 have been available as either front-wheel drive, or with Audi's trademark Torsen-based quattro permanent four-wheel drive (4WD) system, whilst the second and third generation A6 were also used as the basis for the "Audi allroad quattro" and "A6 allroad quattro" models respectively.
As of 2010 there have been three generations of the A6, although under Audi's platform numbering convention, it is treated as a continuation of the original Audi 100 lineage, with the first generation car using the C4 platform designation previously used for the final

Audi A6 Features

2005-2008 Audi A6 3.2 sedan (U.S.)
Manufacturer	Audi AG
Production	C4: 1994 - 1997, C5: 1997 - 2004, C6: 2004 - present
Predecessor	Audi 100
Class	Executive car
Body style(s)	4-door saloon/sedan, 5-door Avant (estate/wagon)
Layout	Longitudinal front engine, front-wheel drive, or quattro permanent four-wheel drive
Platform	Volkswagen Group C platform series
Related	Audi S6 Audi RS6

Awards

The second-generation A6 was on Car and Driver magazine's Ten Best list for 2000 and 2001. The updated 2005 A6 won the World Car of the Year award for 2005. The Audi A6 has again been awarded the title “Best of All Classes” in the Faults Report 2011 of the DEKRA testing organization. For the third time in a row the Audi A6 placed first in the overall rating by the world market leader in automotive testing, as the institute describes itself. The results of the Faults Report 2011 were announced in Stuttgart today.

The DEKRA experts award the title to the models with the lowest fault rate over a high mileage, thus rewarding high long-term quality. In preparing the 2011 Faults Report DEKRA will be using the new DEKRA defects index. This classification system incorporates the rating of “considerable defects” as an evaluation criterion in addition to “no relevant defects”. According to DEKRA, taking into account the share of considerable defects among all defects allows evaluations to be even more exact.
For the “DEKRA Faults Report 2011” experts looked only at models for which at least 1,000 units have been tested in the particular mileage class.
Audi is continuing the success story of the most reliable business sedan. The new A6 will be launched in early 2011. The new edition of the A6 is distinguished by top quality and innovative solutions in all technical areas.