Audi does Christmas

Audi’s new ad campaign tag line is “Truth in Engineering?” So let’s get the truth on Audi’s new headlight styling on several of their models – the R8, A6 and A4.

It looks like Audi designers went right over to The Home Depot in Ingolstadt, Bavaria and picked themselves up some LED rope lights and retro-fitted them onto the faces of their A4, A6 and R8.

Your Pap likes LED lights when done right, but on these Audis, they’re downright cheezy! Unfortunately the flagship R8 wasn’t spared either. Now there’s a time and place for rope lights - like as Christmas lawn decoration in a Palmdale tract development, but pleeze, not on a German performance car. We know you wanna out-do BMW’s “halo ring” headlights, but for your Pap, those rope lights seem to mimic the same sporty character as Pontiacs from the 1980s. We hope Audi pulls the plug on those ridiculous lights soon.