Let's step away from the 2011 Geneva Motor Show for a while, let's take a look at something more sedate, more common. Even though it is an open top sports car, the Audi TT-RS is about as calm as the water in a glass. The Ingolstadt produced roadster normally develops a fairly decent 340 horsepower and 450 Nm of torque....
Abt Sportline is a pretty capable and successful tuner that specializes in Audi products that has dropped out of public view recently. In hoping to get back in the game they came to the 2011 Geneva Motor Show with a tuned version of the Ingolstadt's flagship Audi R8 V10 Spyder. Called the ABT R8 GTS, the German mid engined supercar...
I'm a bit sympathetic for Audi, they are clearly trying to escape the realm of the boring business buyer's market and yet they have to make cars that do awfully well in this segment. No matter the reason, the Ingolstadt based Germans are coming up with designs that struggle somewhere between the lines of interesting and dull and the latest...
The Germans from MTM manage to surprise us once again with an extreme performance tuning package for the Ingolstadt-based supercar. Actually, this is the most extreme Audi R8 V10 in the world, at least for now. According to the MTM tuners, the German supercar is able to develop 777 horsepower and 888 Nm of torque. With such amount of power,...
Like all the editions held before it, the 2011 Geneva Motor Show promises quite the set of surprises. Weirdly, this year, the 2011 Audi A3 may be one of them. After the Ingolstadters have released some sketches and information we've found that the 2011 Audi A3 may not be as familiar a shape as you'd imagine. As it happens, the...
The Ingolstadt-based manufacturer will unveil an armored version of Audi A8 at the Geneva Motor Show, namely the A8 L Security. The new armored version offers more safety thanks to special components such as bulletproof steel panels but also with an increased weight. The armored model is actually based on the extended wheelbase version of A8 and offers the VR7...
The Germans at Audi have warned us about this situation before and it's now at a point where it's seriously becoming a problem for them. The part suppliers that deliver everything Audi vehicles need that can't be made in-house are really suffering and they are holding back deliveries for the four-ringed cars. The situation has gotten to this point, weirdly,...
For the moment just a concept, the carbon fiber skis developed by Audi and Head at the Munchen design studio of the Germans are being revealed now. The Ingolstadt-based car manufacturer decided to create some unique skis in partnership with the specialist from Head. The new skis are made of many innovative materials mainly used in the automotive world, such...
But until then, the German tuner has very kindly shared information on his outfit's latest creation. It's gotten to a point where the ABT tuned version of the Audi A7 Sportback really gets into its stride with the sport part of the name. You see ABT is getting ever closer to becoming VAG Group's in house tuner so their stand...
The Germans from Motoren Technik Mayer or shortly MTM decided to unveil the new tuning package designed for Audi A7, a performance package which is offered for the 3.0-liter TDI unit and manages to squeeze 285 horsepower. To start with the exterior were the changes are few, the Germans a set of new alloy wheels, a two or quad-pipe exhaust...
World Car of the Year is one of the most important competition when it comes to cars and here are the ten models which will fight to rank first in their category. There are three categories within the World Car of the Year. In the first one, World Car Design of the Year, models such Kia Sportage, Honda CR-Z, Nissan...
We've spoken about Audi's new R18 endurance racer before but now we've gotten word about this beast has gotten down to the nitty grity. In its first assignment, Audi did preliminary testing on the R18 endurance racer at the very famous track at Sebring. In a bit of pride, the Germans have told us that the new R18 endurance monster...
The Italians from Romeo Ferraris decided to create a performance tuning kit which comes in two stages, a tuning kit which focuses just on the power amount developed by the German performance version of Audi A6. Thus, Audi RS6 benefits from extra 51 horsepower and 110 Nm of torque thanks to a revised ECU unit and also a new sport...
The Ingolstadters have hit a bit of a problem and still the management at Audi was kind enough to share the information. It seems that the German luxury manufacturer may not be able to hit its sales target this year. The weird thing is that Audi's sales issue isn't related to lack of new products, to quality issues, or just...
The Ingolstadt-based Audi A1 gets some attention from the German tuners at Senner which picked the 1.4-liter TFSI version and created a new tuning kit able to improve the performance of the model but also the appearance. At the exterior we face a black body paint together with 18-inch alloy wheels fitted with Hankook hifh performance tires. New LED lights...
With the Detroit Motor Show, we saw Audi's 2012 A6 show us a very nice trick from up its sleeve. A hybrid version. It's difficult to be the star of a show where Porsche unveiled the 918 Hybrid Racer, but the Audi A6 hybrid did attract a fair amount of attention. The success of the Audi A6 hybrid was related...
It seems that the German model gets a lot of attention from many well-known tuners, this time the Germans from MR Car Design decided to reveal a complete tuning kit which brings both aesthetic improvements but also few performance touches. To start with, MR Car Design tuners boast that the 4.2-liter TDI engine which equips the model has been revised...
Here are some renderings with the latest tuning kit prepared by the British people from Project Kahn, this time in the lead role being the Ingolstadt-based SUV from Audi. We have to talk just about appearance touches thus, at the interior, the tuners opted for aluminum pedals, a new multimedia system with two 7-inch displays and a DVD player, aluminum...
Even the current Audi A1 hasn't been designed to support the quattro system, the Germans from Audi confirmed that the small model will benefit soon from the all-wheel drive traction system as currently it is under tests in Montreal, Canada. Thanks to this decision to introduce the quattro system on the new Audi A1, all the German models from Audi...
Guess what, not everything making the news these days is coming from the Detroit Motor Show, and this is just the case. While Audi is showcasing their new A6 mid range sedan at NAIAS, the Ingolstadters are pretty busy at home. They've just registered two very interested nameplates for Audi fans. The chaps from Audi have registered the SQ5 and...
