Audizine Newsletter, June '08
- Welcome/Intro
- New Features: Enhanced Profile Pages
- Contests: The Great AZ Photo Hunt
- Events: Waterfest 14
- Featured AZ'er: Capt. Obvious
- Latest Industry News
- Latest Motorsport News
- New Audizine Advertisers
- Wrap-Up/Outro
Hello and welcome to the Audizine Newsletter for June 2008. If you bother to read these monthly newsletters on a regular basis, or even just glance them over, you may notice that this one's a bit larger than usual. Well, as we get into Summer, things do tend to pick up a bit and there's just more to go over. Not only that, but we're looking to improve the scope, involvement, and communication within the Audizine Community. There's a lot going on, both behind the scenes here at Audizine and out there within the Audi community at large. It's certainly a great time to be an enthusiast!
Use the all-new table of contents above to jump to a specific section, or read on below for all the latest news and information from around The Zine.
After testing the new Audi A4 for passive crash safety, the Euro NCAP consortium awarded the vehicle five stars, the highest rating possible. The results achieved by the new Audi A4 for adult protection in frontal and side crashes as well as child and pedestrian protection make it one of the safest vehicles in its class. 
Updated version of open-top TT show car with over 300PS is unveiled in Austria. A new version of the crowd-pulling, speedster-style Audi TT clubsport quattro show car makes its debut this month at the Wörthersee Tour, the annual gathering of Audi and VW enthusiasts in Austria. 
Audi, the inventor of TDI, is about to blaze another trail in the field of engine manufacture with the A3 TDI clubsport quattro, a one-off show car featuring the most extreme incarnation to date of its advanced four-cylinder TDI engine. One of the stars of the forthcoming 27th annual Lake Wörther Tour in Austria, the A3 TDI clubsport quattro extracts an incredible 450Nm of torque and maximum power of 224PS from its 2.0-litre, common rail fuel injected TDI unit, allowing it to race from rest to 62mph in just 6.6 seconds and on to a top speed of 149mph. 
The Audi R10 TDI remains unbeaten in the Le Mans 24 Hour race: in its third attempt, the diesel sportscar won the French endurance classic yet again. After the incredible thrill of the 76th edition of the race, Dindo Capello (Italy), Tom Kristensen (Denmark) and Allan McNish (Scotland) triumphed at the wheel of the Audi R10 TDI number 2. 
World premiere in motorsport: At the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours on 14/15 June, the three Audi R10 TDI prototypes entered by Audi Sport Team Joest will race for the first time with the next generation of Biofuel manufactured from Biowaste and promising a reduction in the emission of CO2 by almost 90 per cent when compared with traditional diesel. 
Extension of the the lead and reduction of weight: in front of 80,000 spectators at the DTM’s fourth round at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Audi created an ideal starting base for its home race at the Norisring. Timo Scheider as the runner-up extended his lead of the standings. The compact Audi team performance in the Lausitz region was completed by Mattias Ekström and Martin Tomczyk in places three and four. 
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