There’s no doubt that the Volkswagen Group towards modularity is an all-encompassing strategy for the multi-national car manufacturer and Audi parent. MLB was the first serious move towards this end, though the philosophy is well on the move and visible in component sets like the EA-888 engine family, the MIB infotainment matrix as well as [...] More…
Car & Driver has published a piece by German contributor Jens Meiners revealing a legal battle that has begun between Audi and the startup Chinese car brand Qoros – a joint venture between Chery and Israel Corporation. the company plans a launch at Geneva and intends to use the letter Q prominently in its model [...] More…
Yes, it’s Valentine’s day today and love is in the air. We’re not immune to running some holiday-themed content on days like today, though works like this by Bangalore City, India-based graphic artist Aniruddha Lele makes our job easier by mixing an Audi V8 engine theme with the interpreted shape of a human heart. Given [...] More…
Did you know quattro GmbH experimented with a 3.0 TFSI twin turbo engine for the B7 RS 4 alongside the high-revving 4.2 V8? It’s true, and though the high-rev 4.2 FSI was chosen as the better choice it is also the main reason that there likely will not be an RS 5 plus. Talk of a [...] More…
The devious minds at quattro GmbH have been building hotter ‘plus’ versions of the Audi RS 6 as long as there’s been an RS 6 model… longer really. The first official product of Audi’s performance division was the V8-powered S6 plus in a day when most S6 models had an I5. There’ve been subsequent boosted [...] More…
The annual auto show circuit is set to begin in just over a week in Detroit, though rumors coming out of Germany’s buff magazines this week (Autobild.de, AutoPress.de) suggest that intel is already out on what will headline at September’s Frankfurt IAA – and that headliner is the Audi A6 Sportback e-tron. The rumors include [...] More…
When our friend JF Musial launched the DRIVE network on YouTube, he boasted that he and his able team would take you behind the scenes in the coolest places within the automotive world. This week JF set about proving his point by heading over to the Nurburgring for a look inside a manufacturer test facility just outside the track.
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Heads up for those who still like to turn pages or subscribe on your tablet. This month’s (Jan 2013) Motor Trend and Road & Track magazines are worth picking up. Both magazines have proven especially rich in Audi content this month and we wanted to bring that to your attention. Most may have already seen [...] More…
“Really?” echoed in my head in a sort of Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers kind of resonance several weeks ago when I heard about a Road & Track photo shoot involving Audi of America’s super rare 1984 Sport quattro and 1980s American rally driver John Buffum. R&T’s pitch was to compare and contrast the Sport [...] More…
Did you ever notice that every underpass you go under is supposed to have a marking for minimum height. Did you ever wonder what happens if a truck driver failed to notice said warning? Wonder no longer, as Jalopnik has today published a series of shots of just this very thing… and they include a [...] More…
Here’s the thing about the Audi RS 3. You can point to how it was panned by Chris Harris for having too much understeer, yadda, yadda, yadda… though you can’t argue with its success. Audi sold out of its stock of the RS 3 in record time and even built an additional run of the [...] More…
We’re big fans of Drive, the YouTube channel dedicated to cars. We’re big fans of UK motor journalist Chris Harris. Last, we’re total gluttons for the Audi RS 3 Sportback. So, when we saw Harris pitted the RS 3 against the BMW M135i. So how was it? To be honest, Chris was pretty rough on [...] More…