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Your Certified Audi Brand Specialist is… Dustin Colburn… His friends call him “Dustin”. He was born an identical twin in Toronto, Canada to his parents Allyn and Sandra and moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama when he was 6 years old. He very close with his family. He graduated from Hillcrest High School. Dustin was the Star Quarterback of his high school football team and the #1 Starting Pitcher for their baseball team. He has always found great pleasure in being a part of a Winning T

Audi Vehicles are NOT part of the Takata Airbag Recall.  At Jim Ellis Audi we feel you should be aware.  This is the largest vehicle recall in US history.   Informed sources say it will take years to get all of these airbags recalled. What happens to the people who are injured or killed waiting for the parts to become available to make their recall repairs? People are riding around in a ticking bomb.  Check your VIN number.  If your car is one of the affected ones... see Jim Ellis Audi - Mari

At Jim Ellis Audi - Marietta we have 98 current year Audi's in our Service Loaner Fleet.  We usually have an ample supply for all of our customer needs. Our fleet consists of a mix of our most popular colors and equipment packages in cars and SUV's from each of our available Audi models. A3 - A4 - A5 - A6 - A7 - A8 - Q3 - Q5 - Q7 are all represented.    Most local luxury dealers have a much smaller fleet of available loaner cars. Many times loaners are not as available for their customers. E

Audi Prologue Concept Shows Audi’s New Design Language Over the past decade, Audi had a clear and distinctive design language that reflected luxury, understatement and technology. This current DNA could be traced all the way back to the Nuvolari Concept which Audi introduced in 2003. It has been a really long time, so it was clear to Audi that they had to turn things around and refresh the looks of their vehicles. That’s what Marc Lichte did this year at the Los Angeles Auto Show. As the ne

The Future of Wagon Design Shown Through the Audi Prologue Avant This is not your Momma's Wagon. We all know that the Avant title is used for Audi’s wagon vehicles. This year however in the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, Audi presented a new design language for the future of Avants with the Prologue Avant Concept. At first glance, you’d think that this is the Prologue coupe concept which was revealed last year at the LA Motor Show. And indeed, it shares the same design in front. But when you turn

Audi Unveils the Second Generation R8 By Yasser Zahra |  Finally, the all-new, second generation R8 has been revealed this year at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Since its launch in 2007, the R8 proved to be a huge success and has set new and high standards among the supercar class. We thought it wouldn’t get any better, but we were wrong. The second generation R8 is redesigned from ground-up. “With the new Audi R8, our engineers are bringing accumulated racing expertise from the race track onto

The Mission: Defend the Audi Racing Heritage  Audi has only one mission, to defend the Italian GT Championship. So many Audi technological advances have come out of the dominant Audi racing Heritage. The Audi Team is ready to dominate again. Emilio Radaelli’s team starts the new season on May 2nd, with two Audi R8 LMS Ultra. For Dindo Capello this is going to be his last Championship in the motorsport world. In his former career, he has already won three time the Le-Mans Race. This season sta

Protect your family! The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, the experts in car safety, have awarded Audi’s 2016 Q5 SUV with the HIGHEST POSSIBLE RATING of good in the Small Overlap Crash Test achieving Top Safety Pick +. The Institute (IIHS) is an organization dedicated to reduce losses on America’s roads evaluating safety from every car that hits the road. It evaluates crashworthiness, the protection the vehicle gives to its passengers, and crash avoidance, the technology the brands use

If you find a used car that you love... buy it!  If you procrastinate.... you may lose the car.  Somebody else may buy it before you. A customer just said 'I just looked at that car yesterday! How could it be sold that quickly?" Used cars are totally individuals.  There is no other car just like that car, in that condition, with that miles, and that color, at that price.  There is no used car factory churning out comparable cars. The car you looked at today and wanted to think about till t

One of my regular duties is to order new Audi's from the factory for our stock.  Today I ordered 81 new 16' Audi's to be delivered here in August.  Sometimes the hard part is that you are ordering cars that you have never seen before.  The colors and packages can be confusing to say the least.  You don't even know what the price of the cars you are ordering will turn out to be. There is quite a bit of data on previously sold cars to base our ordering on. Color, equipment, time in stock till sol…