{"id":566,"date":"2004-10-04T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"audi-screws-up-the-a4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/audi-screws-up-the-a4\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi screws up the A4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/jsp\/individualRoadTest.jsp?&amp;carType=new&amp;mCode=A2&amp;rCode=B5&amp;mDesc=Audi&amp;rDesc=A4&amp;roadTestNumber=22.html\">Top Gear reports<\/a> that Audi has a new look for the A4:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/images\/blog\/newUglyAudiA4.jpg\" border=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>What in God&#8217;s name were they thinking? We&#8217;ve seen this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kak.net\/audi\/audia6\/audia6nymod01s.jpg\">new corporate grille on the A6<\/a>, but that was accompanied by smooth, flowing, curves; I&#8217;m still reserving judgement on whether the A6 is a successful design. In the new A4, the pronounced snout and sneering headlights remind me of some kind of mechanical pig with wheels. Worse still, it seems they&#8217;re trying to follow Bangle&#8217;s design aesthetic, as seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/lapcr.com\/BMW%205%20Series.jpg\">the new 5<\/a>. According to the article, there&#8217;s not much different under the skin either, which means that they&#8217;re messing around with the car just for the sake of messing around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Gear reports that Audi has a new look for the A4: What in God&#8217;s name were they thinking? We&#8217;ve seen this new corporate grille on the A6, but that was accompanied by smooth, flowing, curves; I&#8217;m still reserving judgement on whether the A6 is a successful design. In the new A4, the pronounced snout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}