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The idea behind the Audi Ice Experience is a simple one: Showcase the brand's proprietary tech and how it holds up on surfaces offering limited to no traction. At least that's the official brief. Unofficially, it means having a go in some of the fastest cars from Audi's line-up while simultaneously coming to grips, so to speak, with the vagaries of ice driving. Mind you, it's not like you can learn these things via a YouTube tutorial or by taking a rental car, finding a patch of ice and cutting loose. Intense preparation went into creating what was essentially several acres of flat ice, surrounded by manmade snow banks in case an overzealous motoring scribe bins it. The Ice Experience doesn't deal in express parking manoeuvres, after all.
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