15 Dec 2020

2021 Audi Q5 Named a Kelley Blue Book 2021 Best Buy Award Winner

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56370"] source: Audi of America 2021 Audi Q5 named Best Buy in Compact Luxury SUV category Audi Q5 wins a Best Buy Award for fourth consecutive year The 2021 Audi Q5 is updated with sharpened design and new technology The 2021 Audi Q5 has been named a 2021 KBB.com Best Buy Award recipient in the Compact Luxury SUV category. The annual awards recognize the top vehicles in their respective classes as ranked by the editors of Kelley Blue...
Tue, Dec 15 , 2020 Bill
14 Dec 2020

Audi Sport customer racing Successful with its Customers Worldwide Again in 2020

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56352"] source: Audi Sport 34 titles and 122 race wins with four types of cars High degree of participation of Audi customers in compact season Three 24-hour race successes for private teams with the Audi RS 3 LMS and R8 LMS GT4 Audi Sport customer racing can look back on a list of outstanding successes at the end of a highly compressed season with its customers. Even though the number of races worldwide in the 2020 pandemic year was down by...
Mon, Dec 14 , 2020 Bill
14 Dec 2020

Audi Sport Second in the Kyalami 9 Hour Race

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56338"] source: Audi Sport Second place at Kyalami for Mirko Bortolotti/Frédéric Vervisch/Charles Weerts Two more Audi R8 LMS cars in the top ten Audi Sport third best of nine brands in Intercontinental GT Challenge In an extremely thrilling finale of the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC), Audi Sport Team WRT improved from seventh place to second position. Mirko Bortolotti/Frédéric Vervisch/Charles Weerts crossed the finish line 22 hu...
Mon, Dec 14 , 2020 Bill
11 Dec 2020

Project Dakar: Q Motorsport Becomes Audi Factory Team

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="56330"] source: Audi AG In 2022, Audi will take part in the world’s toughest rally for the first time Q Motorsport and Audi will compete in the race together Partner with over two decades of experience in cross-country motorsport Audi will compete in the Dakar Rally for the first time with an innovative prototype in 2022. The race in the world’s toughest cross-country rally will be carried out in cooperation with the newly-f...
Fri, Dec 11 , 2020 Bill
10 Dec 2020

Find of the Day: 2007 Misano Red Audi RS 4

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56276"] words: Bill, photos: Park Place LTD I help edit quattro Magazine and we just wrapped up Troy's Misano Red  Project RS 4 segment in Q4 2020. I've been hungry for an RS 4 for awhile and then this popped up...an identical one to Troy's. Bad timing on my part as we've purchased 3 cars in the past couple of months. I know...1st world problems. Here's the ad: Stock Number:17869 Mileage:74,519 Exterior Color:Misano Red Pearl Interior Color:Bla...
Thu, Dec 10 , 2020 Bill
10 Dec 2020

Santa’s Got A Brand New Sleigh

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56270"] words: Bill, photo: Audi AG A couple of years ago, Santa decided to get into shape and for this, he was rewarded with the then-new RS 5 Sportback. Flash forward to today, and it looks like Santa has a new sleigh: the electric Audi e-tron GT concept (which has just entered production). This is the latest in a string of Audi holiday commercials and I'm not going to lie...I'm jealous of Santa's sleigh. Enjoy the video below and everyon...
Thu, Dec 10 , 2020 Bill
10 Dec 2020

Audi museum mobile Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56263"] source: Audi AG 34 vehicles from the company's history are new to the permanent exhibition Rally, DTM, Le Mans: motor sport history - an exclusive on the paternoster Now icons such as the Audi TT, Audi RS 4 and Audi A2 are in the museum It will soon be twenty years since the Audi museum mobile first opened its doors on 15 December 2000. Over the first twenty years of the new millennium, Audi AG has added many chapters to its success ...
Thu, Dec 10 , 2020 Bill
9 Dec 2020

Audi e-tron GT Enters Series Production: Carbon-Neutral Production Begins at the Böllinger Höfe

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56236"] source: Audi AG Neckarsulm site producing the first fully electric Audi to be built in Germany Accepting orders from spring 2021 Audi Board of Management Member for Production Kössler: “Net carbon-neutral production at the Böllinger Höfe is another step toward the achievement of our sustainability goals” At the Böllinger Höfe, passion meets precision, innovation and sustainability: Series production of the fully electric-pow...
Wed, Dec 09 , 2020 Bill
8 Dec 2020

Find of the Day: Ex-Mattias Ekström 2003 DTM Audi TT-R

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56216"] words: Bill, photos: RS Racetec GmbH, Audi Sport Audi is leaving the DTM series after many years and many wins but no worries...Audi's motorsports future is bright. Still, if you want to relive the past, you can always buy this Abt-Audi TT-R DTM that was driven by Mattias Ekström and others during the 2003 DTM campaign. Ekström, a two-time DTM champion, retired from Audi Sport in 2018. Here he is talking about the best moments in DTM wi...
Tue, Dec 08 , 2020 Bill
8 Dec 2020

The Bugatti Bolide Is Real

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56196"] source: Bugatti The Bugatti Bolide Is the Most Extreme Hyper Sports Car of Modern Times Incomparably fast, light, extreme. With its Bugatti Bolide presented a few weeks ago, the French luxury brand is once again pushing the boundaries of what is physically possible. Never before has Bugatti designed such an uncompromising vehicle, focused solely on the race track. The Bugatti Bolide serves as an experimental design study and a car...
Tue, Dec 08 , 2020 Bill
8 Dec 2020

Lamborghini Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Diablo

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56171"] source: Automobili Lamborghini Automobili Lamborghini celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Diablo this year, one of the most iconic models in the history of super sports cars, and originally on the market from January 1990. The Diablo story began in 1985. It was codenamed Project 132, with the aim of replacing the Countach at the top of the Lamborghini range. The clean and aggressive lines are the result of a project by Marcello Gandini...
Tue, Dec 08 , 2020 Bill
7 Dec 2020

Compact Hybrid with 245 PS System Output: The Audi A3 Sportback 45 TFSI e

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56155"] source: Audi AG 400 Nm (295.0 lb-ft) of system torque and an electric range of up to 74 kilometers (46.0 mi) Black styling package, red brake calipers, and sport seats as standard Available for order this week, base price in Germany EUR 40,395 Audi continues its electrification campaign in the compact class: Presales of the A3 Sportback 45 TFSI e2 will start in Germany this week. The brand with the four ...
Mon, Dec 07 , 2020 Bill
4 Dec 2020

Weathered 2005 Le Mans Winning Audi R8 1:8 Scale by Amalgam

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56133"] source: Amalgam Collection Editor's note: With the excitement that Audi is likely headed back to Le Mans by 2023, it was timely that this Audi R8 popped up on my Facebook wall. Amalgam Collection is known for their highly-detailed limited edition models and you can't get more limited than this: only 15 of these almost 2 feet long models will be built. The price? $8,794. It's on preorder now and as soon as your model is completed, they wi...
Fri, Dec 04 , 2020 Bill
4 Dec 2020

ABT Power, Wheels and Aerodynamic Upgrades for 2021 Audi RS 5

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56118"] source: ABT America The redesigned 2021 Audi RS 5 Coupe and Sportback is offering another great opportunity for Audi enthusiasts to individualize their car with high quality ABT parts. It’s already a powerhouse from the factory with 444 hp and 442 lb-ft of torque, but ABT pumps up the performance of up to approx. 503 hp and 501 lb-ft (based on 93 octane fuel)*. The ABT power upgrade consists of the signature ABT engine control unit (AEC...
Fri, Dec 04 , 2020 Bill
4 Dec 2020

Global Deliveries of Pikes Peak Continental GT Limited Edition

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56099"] source: Bentley Customers from around the world start to receive their limited edition Pikes Peak Continental GT by Mulliner Five vehicles delivered into the USA, home to the world-renowned course in Colorado where the record was set Cars travel to all sides of world – the UK, USA, Europe, Qatar, UAE, Japan and New Zealand Just 15 examples hand-built at Bentley’s factory in Crewe, England W12-powered Continental GT race car smashed I...
Fri, Dec 04 , 2020 Bill
3 Dec 2020

Video of the Day: Unitronic Tuned TT RS goes 8.97@154mph

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56084"] words: Bill, photo/video: Unitronic It's always great to hear an Audi 5-cylinder hard at work and to see it scorch the 1/4 mile in 8.97 seconds is amazing. Strap in with Brian and his Ara Blue TT RS loaded with Unitronic goodies as he takes you down the track. Just don't blink or you may miss it. Congrats to Brian (@saxon_rs) and the team at Unitronic! Enjoy the video below. [embed]https://youtu.be/vSyFqzF11N8[/embed]   ...
Thu, Dec 03 , 2020 Bill
3 Dec 2020

Find of the Day: 2003 Audi S8…6sp Manual Swap

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="56070"] words: Bill, photos: Bring-A-Trailer Normally I wouldn't place a D2 S8 with 161k miles as a Find of the Day but this one is a little different...it has a 6speed manual transmission swap. Does that elevate this S8 just a bit? Here's the ad: This 2003 Audi S8 is finished in Ming Blue Pearl over white leather and is powered by a 4.2-liter V8 paired with a six-speed manual transmission that was installed by a previous owner. Features include ...
Thu, Dec 03 , 2020 Bill
2 Dec 2020

Sporty, Practical and Elegant: The Q5 Sportback and the SQ5 Sportback TDI

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="55968"] source: Audi AG The new SUV coupé captivates with its powerful and progressive design Tremendous variability and high everyday utility, towing capacity of up to 2.4 metric tons New light generation: rear lights with digital OLED technology SQ5 Sportback TDI top-of-the-range model with output of 341 PS and 700 Nm (516.3 lb-ft) of torque Following the Q3 Sportback and the e-tron Sportback, Audi now presents its third crossover uti...
Wed, Dec 02 , 2020 Bill
2 Dec 2020

Audi of America Announces Sara Whiffen as VP of Strategy and New Business

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="55894"] source: Audi of America Whiffen will lead business strategy and new business efforts Whiffen brings more than 20 years of business strategy experience Previously, she held CEO position at data-driven tech startup Audi of America is pleased to announce that Sara Whiffen will join the company as vice president, Strategy and New Business, effective November 30. She will be responsible for driving forward the Audi of Ameri...
Wed, Dec 02 , 2020 Bill
2 Dec 2020

Audi Increases Budget for Electromobility up to 2025

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="55888"] source: Audi AG Focus on future technologies with upfront expenditure of almost € 17 billion Almost half of total investments for electromobility, hybridization and digitalization Consistent use of synergies in the Volkswagen Group, including for hard- and software Audi Transformation Plan and Audi.Zukunft remain key pillars for the company’s success Chairman of Supervisory Board Herbert Diess: “With this invest...
Wed, Dec 02 , 2020 Bill