Audi News

The picture you're looking at with the Audi was taken on flat land. The Aud R8 LMS above was riding a track with an incredible 60-degree banked corner. Now that we have your attention with that tidbit, here's your unusually present update of race cars simply too awesome to ignore. We're ...    Read more

A brief history lesson: there once was a time when America built the world's finest luxury cars. That key word, of course, was once. Around the 1970s, when American cars slowly became caricatures of themselves, 17 feet long and dripping with chrome, came the notion that a small, well-built, (relatively) economical but ...    Read more

We understand the Bentley folks are pretty quick to point out the newest 2013 Bentley Continental GT's fuel economy ratings. And we ask— what is the world coming to? Bentley is of course talking about its new 4.0-liter eight-cylinder engine, and granted, when you compare it to the 6.0-liter W-12 in ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

Porsche fan have been waiting for an updated version of the 550 since the original 550 first won Le Mans...way back in 1955. Porsche hinted of such plans at least twice in 2011 but announced it was delaying the project in fear it could affect the ...    Read more

We're well in to spring, and as we go through the European Sales numbers released today, we can't help but think it fitting. Spring symbolizes growth and renewal, and as far as European automakers are concerned, things are starting to get pretty green. For the most part April was a ...    Read more

In celebration of Audi Deutschland's Facebook page getting 500,000 fans, the company just uploaded a video of an Audi R8 V-10 supercar drawing out a symbol while drifting. It's a nice gesture. After all, it's not often you get to see a $160,000 car smoking up a storm. "Dindo" Capello mans ...    Read more

Audi has been mentioning possible new Q crossovers and SUVs in the past several months to compete with rival German luxury automaker BMW, and the expanding market in general; now new details are emerging to give us a clearer picture as to what the Q future lineup could look like. ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

Details are emerging on the 2013 Audi Q5, and from the looks of it, Audi is following suit with its company-wide effort to make for a leaner, more efficient fleet. The German automaker's midsize SUV has been largely popular for its sleek styling, and trademark Audi interior paired with excellent ...    Read more

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Today's installment of Video of the Day features an elderly New Mexico man, a handgun, and a speed enforcement vehicle. The speed enforcement vehicle, which has become a more common sight around Santa Fe, played the role of a target as the man decided ...    Read more

There's an old auto industry proverb that goes something like this: Any press release you see from a German automaker in English, multiply its length by 10 to get the feel for how it originally read in German before an English-speaking PR team got its hands on it. For a ...    Read more

What do the Coachella music festival, a Honda lawsuit, and a couple of Chevy-themed videos have in common? Nothing, really, except that they were all covered at Automotive.com this week, and all recapped here in our Week in Review. It was a big week for news, really, with all kinds ...    Read more

Audi's had a bit of a busy week. First, the German luxury division made it official that it would be purchasing storied superbike maker Ducati. Then, and much closer to home, Audi announced it would be breaking ground on its first North American plant in Mexico. Here are the details: ...    Read more

Thanks to volatile gas prices that have plagued the global market over the past few years, consumers have shied away from bigger vehicles, such as SUVs. BMW is looking to buck the recent trend without waiting for fuel prices to come back down to earth with the introduction of the ...    Read more

Most car buffs are familiar with the gargling from a Ford Mustang's V-8. Most can recall the snarly-throated scream of a Ferrari, the uneven rumble from a boxer engine like Porsche and Subaru, or even the swooshing air inducted into a turbo engine. To a car enthusiast, these sounds are ...    Read more

While other automakers from all over the world were turning in record sales figures for the month of March, Europe's biggest automotive nameplates were no different. In astonishing fashion, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz all turned in record-setting sales figures for March and the first quarter of 2012. Audi rode ...    Read more

Audi is growing a reputation for building stunning cars, inside and out. But in a new ad, the German automaker admits it wasn't always so. Indeed cars like the new 2012 Audi A7 have won numerous awards and praise, yet the A7 is mechanically identical to the Audi A6. The ...    Read more

Here's what we know: the 2013 Audi A8 Hybrid, and the extended, limo-like version of the luxury sedan, the A8 L Hybrid, will hit European showrooms in a couple of months. Audi hasn't confirmed that the hybrid will come to the U.S., but given Americans affinity for hybrids, and the ...    Read more

Website CarInsurance.com mulled many a $15,000 car (or less, supposedly), attempting to come up with the perfect list of 20 cars to buy teens. It waded through cars that were considered pretty darn reliable, ranked as Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute of  Highway Safety, and cost the least ...    Read more

What goes up…well, you know the rest. Luxury automakers are watching profits fall in the once hot Chinese car market. According to Bloomberg, reasons include a slowing Chinese economy, rising cost of fuel, and simple competition. The current major players in the premium and luxury car market include Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. ...    Read more

If Billy Shakespeare’s words are to be believed, Ol’ Caesar should have heeded that crazy woman’s ramblings. Maybe he’d still be alive today—ok, probably not—to invent some more salad dressings, or appear in a Nicki Minaj video, or fiddle with the calendar some more. Would that give us ...    Read more

The old adage of "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday" lost much of its meaning when NASCAR, the U.S.'s largest racing series, gave up on production-car roots for plastic cars with tube frames back in the late-1980s. Before then, body kits and aerodynamic add-ons for the road were perfected on ...    Read more

Audi boss Rupert Stadler confirmed the Audi A3 will be offered with a plug-in hybrid version in 2014, furthering the company's plans to offer electric vehicles in every segment. Audi's CEO, in his annual address to the company, indicated the A4 and Q7 crossover would also have electric motors paired ...    Read more

While the press keeps hammering how most of Middle America is in the dumps, losing jobs, can't find jobs, grossly obese because they can't find a job, etc., apparently there were just a few still gainfully employed and able to secure their favorite cars and crossovers from ze Germans automakers ...    Read more