Do you always find it difficult to park your luxury sedan? Is there never a parking spot big enough to fit your A8? Well, worry no more as Audi announced a new solution to take care of all your parking woes - the 'Audi Downsizing Assistant'! The downsizing assistant will be able to shorten your car's chassis by up to 15 per cent just by the touch of a button so that one can squeeze into those tight parking spots without a hassle. Available from January 2019 onwards, Audi's Twitter handle put out this lovely video explaining how it works momentarily exciting a fair few fans until of course, everyone remembered that it was an April Fools prank!
undefinedSay goodbye to tight parking spaces. Introducing the Audi downsizing assistant: able to reduce the vehicle's chassis length by up to 15%. Coming January 2019. #downsizing pic.twitter.com/61IUEQeiyB
— Audi (@AudiOfficial) March 31, 2018
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And such a system would obviously never work. For starters, a car with a chassis - or technically a monocoque that changes length would be an engineering nightmare to design and manufacture. And then we get to the fact that if it were ever made, it would essentially be as stable or as rigid as freshly spun cotton candy! And since it would need to have reinforcements galore, it would also be uncannily heavy.
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And then, of course, you come to the people sitting inside the car. Imagine coming up to a parking spot that isn't large enough for your A8 and engaging the Audi Downsizing assistant to shrink your chassis enough to fit in. And when it does do its deed, imagine what would happen to the rear passengers! Not the nicest way to lose your legs! That said, we know this isn't real and we know this would never happen but we can't help but chuckle at the fact that Audi went through all this effort to put it out! Who says the Germans have no sense of humor!
