Audi Headlight Technology

The new Audi A6 intends to challenge a lot of technology found in its competitor models, one of these innovations is the new all LED headlights. The A6 will be the first executive saloon in the market to have all LED headlights, an optional extra in exchange for the more familiar halogen or bi-xenon lamps that come as standard.

The Audi A6s advanced LED headlight units emit a strong white light that is similar to daylight, and use just 40 watts of electricity each, making them yet another important weapon in the battle against energy consumption. The advanced LED units use just four one-chip and five two-chip LEDs to create dipped-beam light, and 24 white LEDs to make up the daytime running lights in each headlight. This keeps power consumption and maintenance down, and gives excellent life span.

All LED headlights are not new in the Audi line-up, the Audi R8 was the first ever production car to feature all-LED headlights and now are becoming common across the Audi range. The advanced all LED headlights will also be available on the new A7 Sportback and Audi A8 luxury saloon.

The all LED headlights are further enhanced by intelligent systems such as adaptive light control and high-beam assist, which give maximum visibility without dazzling other road users. Simply put the adaptive light system adapts the light provided by the headlights to the driving conditions, with different arrangements of light when driving in the city, country roads and on motorways.

The Audi high-beam assistant automatically varies the range and width of the headlight beam between dipped and full according to the road conditions. The system also incorporates an all-weather function that uses the rear view mirror camera to detect the lights of on-coming traffic and adjust the headlight intensity to give optimum visibility in varying conditions without disturbing other road users.

The Audi A6 is now available to order from Audi Bury St Edmunds, prices start from 30,145 for the 2.0 litre TDI model. The all LED headlight upgrade costs an additional 2,710.