Audi News

European Audi fans have cause to celebrate: The Audi TT RS Plus is on the way, and with more power than ever, to further separate the Audi roadster and convertible from the competition. American fans might be wondering why we don't have a "Plus" version, but the answer is simple: ...    Read more

Ever wonder what the most and least expensive cars to insure are? Well you're in luck, as Insure.com has compiled a list of the top 20 vehicles for each category. Many factors were taken into consideration while building this list, such as the frequency of crashes for a model, cost ...    Read more

When Audi launched the R8, a racecar turned production vehicle in 2006, company execs knew customers would want it. Turns out they were right. The Audi R8 supercar has found 15,537 worldwide owners since its debut in 2006, not including 2011. While the much anticipated second-generation Audi R8 is still ...    Read more

Intellichoice has released its annual list of cars it considers a Best Value of the Year. Analyzing every new car for the 2012 model year, Intellichoice applies cost analysis to determine cars that have low total ownership  costs as well as lower than expected costs over time. Looking beyond the initial ...    Read more

The Scandinavians were among the first Europeans to explore (and conquer) their continent en masse, over the course of three centuries. If they had the luxury of an Audi R8 Spyder, we think they would have done so a lot faster. On the Motor Trend Channel's premiere episode of "Epic ...    Read more

Audi's most exclusive car, the 2012 R8 GT Spyder, is all set to come to the U.S., and it comes complete with supercar pricing. Audi says only 333 of these will be produced, and we earlier speculated that under 100 would make the journey across the Atlantic. We ...    Read more

Motor Trend has lauched its all new YouTube channel, and if you're wondering what's got enthusiasts the world over buzzing, you can check out our roundup, complete with teasers and first episodes, below: Epic Drives Motor Trend takes the coolest cars out onto the most desirable roads, and a crew is there to film ...    Read more

With all the recent economic forecasts and jobs reports, you'd think it was doom and gloom out there, (and it may be), but you'll only get a half-hearted nod of sympathy from our German friends. These are good times in the auto industry, one that's recovering ahead of the general ...    Read more

The Super Bowl of advertising is just around the corner, once again coinciding with the actual Super bowl. Good thing too, since it's a sure bet that not all of the millions of people watching The Big Game actually enjoy football. However, all of them do buy stuff on occasion, ...    Read more

At the CES show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Audi teased us with an A3 interior, sans the body and wheels and that kind of important stuff. We also didn't have any information on the potential engines. But thanks to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, we're getting a sense ...    Read more

Michigan-based Hagerty Insurance specializes in providing classic car coverage, but the company also does something we especially like— every year it releases a "hot list" of new models that it believe will be future classics. Hagerty asks its team of "valuation experts" to pick ten cars among the countless that ...    Read more

In the United States, hybrids are generally thought of as the most fuel efficient option available. But in the case of the Audi Q5, the European diesel engine gets better fuel economy than the hybrid. So how do you market the Q5 Hybrid's fuel-sipping benefits here in America? By making ...    Read more

Or just regular vampires, even. They might even sparkle when lit by Audi's LED headlights—but we won't know until the Super Bowl rolls around in early February, and we get a full glimpse of the Twilight-spoofing ad. This is Audi's fifth year producing a big-budget Super Bowl ad, and their past ...    Read more

Finally, two wealthy morons reveal the formula for all-wheel drive supercar fail: Money + Snow + Steep Hill! In what's shocking to literally no one who has ever driven a car uphill, we now have videographic evidence to support what we've known all along--that ice and gravity cannot be defeated by ...    Read more

Have you ever thought, “gee, my handbuilt German supercar sure is a dazzler with the ladies, but I hate renting a separate limousine for when my bros are going out on the town?” Well listen up Vincent Chase, because a British company may have just the ride for you. If ...    Read more

A report from Britain's What Car suggests Audi is considering building a Q1 small SUV. Audi has been aggressively expanding its lineup to snatch up incremental segments that could help further bolster the luxury German automaker's sales, and a Q1 appears to be a plausible car. The small crossover would be ...    Read more

Here's the rub: The 2012 Audi A5 is a sexy piece of machine, and the Audi S5 special edition, of which only 125 will be made available here in North America, is the A5 if the A5 were an Austrian bodybuilder/action star/Governator of Caulifornea, but mostly in the 70s when ...    Read more

While Audi hasn't made it official, several indications show the German luxury automaker is leaning towards building a plant in Mexico, while America still a consideration. Audi hasn't said what might be built at the plant, but did suggest that it would have to be a model that could justify ...    Read more

Audi and its quattro all-wheel drive system go hand in hand. It's a staple in the company's advertising, which frequently shows its cars gallivanting around in white snowdrifts as if there were so much solid black asphalt. To further solidify its ties with battling the white stuff, Audi has sponsored ...    Read more

Over the past few days, we've covered touchscreens, voice commands, head-up displays, applications, smartphone integration, and various other technologies featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But what does much of it come down to? The cloud. Technology in cars is finally at a point where it needs ...    Read more

This year, plenty of automakers pulled their full weight into the Consumer Electronics Show. But there were plenty of little guys out there, too, that made us ask "Why didn't someone else think of that sooner?" Whether big or small, there were a lot of announcements at the show—some bigger than ...    Read more

If you were at Audi's 2012 Consumer Electronics Show display, you might think you were in Frankfurt instead of Las Vegas, as the predominant language spoken at the display was German. You might also wonder how Audi shifted its priorities into making CES its January venue of choice instead of ...    Read more

Audi has announced it will be adding more models to quell the U.S. market's demands for more sedans and SUVs. This will also help Audi in its chase to reel in the competition and fellow German auto makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz, who have been kings of the figurative hill in ...    Read more

Black Eyed Peas impresario will.i.am is building a custom white Delorean, powered by an Audi V8, because let’s face it, that’s exactly the sort of thing will.i.am would do. Looking like the unholy union between a Apple mouse from the 1980s and Megatron’s pet catfish, this white creation used to be ...    Read more

In 2011, Automotive.com’s staff size increased 600 percent. We started our own revitalization, staking out where we were and where we are yet to go. To close out the year, we put together our picks for the high and low points that made up the automotive year that was 2011. From ...    Read more