Just a few weeks ago, Audi chose to pull the wraps off its upcoming A3 and S3 sedans in a preview party ahead of the New York Auto Show. The cars will get their auto show debut this month in China, but int he meantime we’ve found a wealth of videos on YouTube offering more background on the cars.
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We’re admittedly most jealous of our European colleagues in the automotive journalism world today. As we sit here in the office, we’re seeing tweets and facebook posts of them out enjoying the launch of the awesome new Audi RS 6. Alas, that model is not bound for America so there was never really any chance [...] More…
We’re little over a month away from the premier of ‘Iron Man 3′ and so comes an onslaught of promotion of the latest installment of the super hero franchise. Audi has been a feature in each Iron Man movie and #3 is no different, with prominent roles for the R8 e-tron, S7 Sportback and more. Not surprisingly, the R8 e-tron is featured in this latest film clip.
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We’ve become fans of Chris Harris solidly since he joined the ranks over at the DRIVE channel on YouTube. He often highlights things like the Singer Porsche 911 or Polestar Volvo S60 in a way that is nothing short of ringing the hell out of the car. Harris is also not opposed to going the un-P.C. route with his subject matter and we’d recently highlighted that when he compared the Bentley Continental GT Speed with the Audi S4 Avant. Turns out Chris just bought his own B8 S4 Avant – a rather rough example, but one he promptly chip tuned and upgraded via Revo and Stasis and then he proceeded to compare it to the new RS 4.
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Motorists hate black ice like the devil hates holy water. No wonder, because when the going is icy, directional stability is all too often an unpredictable lottery. With its Hakkapeliitta 8 studded tyre, Finnish tyre manufacturer Nokian, traditionally committed to this cold problem area, has provided impressive proof that it is possible to drive at blistering speed, under control and in a straight line even on an icy surface. The Finn Janne Laitinen clocked 331.61 km/h on the thick ice sheet of the Gulf of Bothnia on 6 March 2011. More…
[Insert Jeff Foxworthy impression here.] If you drive a station wagon and like to beat up on seriously built vintage muscle cars at the track, you might be a B5 S4 owner. More specifically, you would be Joe Crowell, owner of North Carolina-based Eurotechnik and driver of his wife’s adequately tuned pearlescent white 2001 Audi [...] More…
We’re little under one week out from the reveal of the new Audi A3 sedan at an off-site location during New York Auto Show week and Audi has begun the push to drive attention to the event. In that vein they’ve dropped this video teaser along with the announcement of a new AudiMediaTV channel where [...] More…
We knew him before his time with the DRIVE YouTube channel but our appreciation for automotive journalist Chris Harris has grown so much faster since we’ve had a chance to watch his Chris Harris on Cars videos over there. Harris seems a true enthusiast in nearly every sense, and DRIVE doesn’t make an effort to [...] More…
So the producers of the new ‘Iron Man 3′ movie have released another trailer for the movie and some new details have emerged. Credit to Audi UK who sighted the new short on their Facebook page today and mentioned the R8. We spotted that while working here at the Geneva Motor Show and had to [...] More…
Dear Audi UK,
You likely already know this, but you’re killing it this week on your YouTube Audi Channel. First you dropped that R8 V10 plus teaser and… well… teased us. We loved the sound, but wanted more. Then, you went and you dropped that RS 4 paintball battle video dubbed ‘The Duel’ and pretty much got everybody’s attention. Now you’ve dropped the unteased full-length spot on the R8 V10 plus. More…
Ever wonder what Audi does at their R&D facility (a.k.a. bunker)? We’ve been there once and we had our own ideas, but paintball duels between opposing black and white RS 4 Avants weren’t the first thing we’d have guessed. Yes, this was likely a shrewd marketing move on Audi UK’s part from the looks of [...] More…
When we first read about the YouTube video of the Akron Car Jumper (real name Chris Bryant) jumping an Audi A7, visions of that totaled Raptor and Evel Knievel popped into our heads. On first though, the A7 Sportback may not strike you as something good for jumping in the General Lee sense of the verb, but Bryant is more Kobe than Evel and as such there’s likely no problem.
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