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5 unusual facts about Audi A3


Jokin Ormaetxea

Ormaetxea was a passenger in an Audi A3 driven by fellow cyclist Joseba Albizu of team Euskaltel-Euskadi when the car overturned after leaving the road near the town of Deba at approximately 6:40 am.

Mattia Dal Bello

He died in a car accident on 11 December 2004, as he drove his Audi A3 into a wall.

Natalie Teeger

A 2008 Audi A3 for the first half of season seven, from "Mr. Monk Buys a House" to "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized"

The Art of the Heist

The Art of the Heist (aka Stolen A3 or Art of the H3ist) was an advertising campaign and an alternate reality game created to promote the Audi A3.

Essential to the play of the game were a number of real-life players, who would be broadly dubbed "retrievers." Retrievers would be called in, on various occasions, to different places around the United States, where they would attempt to retrieve an SD Card from inside an Audi A3.


C-segment

Basically the Golf, together with other 5 models (Ford Focus, Opel Astra with its Vauxhall twin, Audi A3, BMW 1 Series and Skoda Octavia makes the half of the market.


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C-segment

Luxury brands such as BMW (1 Series), Audi (A3) and Mercedes (brand-new A-class) are getting more and more popularity in the segment since years, differently from what is happening in other minor segments like A-segment and B-segment.