Audi A4 gets comprehensive styling updates

The comprehensive package of styling updates goes hand-in-hand with a healthy dose of equipment enhancements. The design-oriented changes sharpen the look of SE and Sport versions and raise the S line specification profile with an even more purposeful new treatment.

Externally, the more purposeful stance adopted by SE and Sport versions comes courtesy of a revised front and rear bumper design, more pronounced side skirts, a special finish for the Singleframe and side air inlet grilles, a roof edge spoiler in Avant versions and a rear diffuser flanked by new look trapezoidal tailpipes.

SE versions will retain wheels of the same 17-inch diameter but in a new design while Sport models will upgrade to a new, larger 18-inch wheel.

The look of S line and Black Edition models is accentuated at the front by a striking new 3D-look Singleframe. This is edged by wedge-shaped bumpers incorporating sizeable inlets with a U-shaped clip separating their exterior and interior areas, a honeycomb grille and separate openings, which guide a portion of the airflow into the wheel housings, where it flows past the wheels.

At 19 inches, those wheels are now larger and newly designed in the S line specification, contributing to the more muscular profile, and at the rear a new, more contoured S line diffuser separates the new tailpipes. To round off the exterior updates for these versions, a new colour - Turbo Blue - will be available exclusively in conjunction with Black Edition specification.

Equipment enhancements that will make the A4 even more of a pleasure to live with day-to-day have also been added across the board as part of the update. On top of their already extensive range of equipment, SE versions gain MMI navigation (SD card-based), a 7.0-inch colour Driver's Information System to replace the original 5.0-inch monochrome version, an upgraded multi-function steering wheel controlling a wider range of functions and auto-folding door mirrors.

Additions to the Sport specification include four-way lumbar adjustment for the driver and front passenger seats and auto-folding door mirrors. The latter are also now included for S line and Black Edition models, as is the high beam assist function for automatic toggling between dipped and high head light beams as required.