Monday, January 11, 2016

2017 Audi Allroad Quattro: Don’t Call It a Wagon

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-Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, was the unlikely celebrity that Audi chose to help introduce its 2017 Allroad Quattro at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. What does the 81-year-old Cernan have to do with an all-wheel-drive luxury wagon for people who find Subarus too cheap? Not much, except that Audi is sponsoring a German-based competitor for the $30 million Google Lunar XPrize, a race to land a privately funded robot on the moon. Audi’s Berlin-based team plans to land an all-wheel-drive rover on the moon by 2020, in the valley of Taurus-Littrow, where Cernan and crewmate Harrison Schmitt touched down on December 11, 1972. READ MORE ››

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