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WATCH AUDI OF AMERICA PRESIDENT TALK ABOUT “THE YEAR OF AUDI”

I know you thought it was the year of the ox. Audi is German; not Chinese. And Audi, in all their righteous arrogance, thinks 2009 is the year of Audi. 

Give Johan de Nysschen 4:38 of your time and see if you can’t learn something. Staring at an Audi Sportback Concept for that long, you might just learn whether or not you like the way it looks.

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