Audi's R8 has been chosen as the best of the best at an international design awards event, with two other models from the German manufacturer picking up prizes.
The R8 was named tops at the Red Dot awards with Audi's A3 Sportback and the S3 also winning titles for their styling quality.
The award acknowledges aesthetic form but also takes into consideration pioneering trends and the designers' innovations.
The jury of 37 experts from 24 countries said the R8 was designed and elaborated to an extraordinarily high level, its proportions were balanced, it had perfect poise and its aesthetics were of a high calibre.
It was chosen from more than 4600 products and projects entered from 54 countries.
Meanwhile, Audi opened an e-gas plant in Werlte, northwest Germany, last week, making it the first motor vehicle manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. It begins with green electricity, water and CO2 and the end products are hydrogen and the synthetic methane known as Audi e-gas.
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