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Words: Steve Johnson
With so many incredible auction platforms, both traditional and untraditional, enthusiasts could spend all day searching all these outlets for interesting cars hitting the market. Audi Club aims to keep its members up to date with Ingolstadt’s finest as they are listed with this new series of stories. We’ll monitor the auction houses looking for interesting new finds, and hopefully our Audi enthusiast member...
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words: Bill, photo: carwow
This is a fairly even matchup in today's drag race from carwow (with the exception of one). Four (AMG, VW), five (Audi), and six cylinders (BMW, Porsche) are represented as well as AWD (Audi, AMG, VW) and RWD (BMW, Porsche). Four of them are within 20hp of each other (RS 3 400hp, A45 420hp, M2 410, GTS 400) with the lonely Volkswagen Golf R down 100hp from the AMG. How does the RS 3 stack up against its co...
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words: Bill, video: carwow Ok...this is one of the oddest comparisons we've featured on our Video of the Day series. Mat Watson from carwow pits a $143,000 Audi RS Q8 against a $25,000 Dacia Duster. Strange comparison but is it really? The Dacia had the advantage of, well, being cheap so the presenters were not afraid of damages costing too much if they wrecked it but were timid when it came to the RS Q8. The RS Q8 was also on street tir...
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source: Audi AG
Assembly of the rally cars has begun
Audi RS Q e-tron with complex powertrain concept
Four kilometers of cables, two central control units and six cooling systems
In 100 days from now, the 44th edition of the famous Dakar Rally will kick off. For Audi Sport, this marks the beginning of a real race against time.
Audi is tackling one of the greatest challenges in international motorsport, quite deliberately usin...
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words: Bill, video: Daniel Abt
If you've ever wondered how the older C7 stacked up to the new C8 RS 6 Avant, wonder no more. In Daniel Abt's (yes, that Daniel Abt) latest YouTube video, he pits the two super wagons against each other. Thankfully, there are English subtitles for those who don't speak German. While the C7 has a lot of miles on it, it's been upgraded with ABT power as has its younger sibling, the C8. Both put out about 700...
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words: Bill, video: carwow
The lyrics to Sly and The Family's Family Affair was going through my wind when I saw the lineup to this peculiar drag race: Lamborghini Urus, Porsche Cayman GT4, Audi TT RS, and Volkswagen Golf R. It is a family affair with all these brands under the Volkswagen tent and Mat brings them all together. An unusual lineup when you think of the V8 SUV, a 6 cylinder RWD sports car, a 5 cylinder AWD, and a 4 cylinder...
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words: Bill, video: carwow.com
ICE versus Electric
Mat Watson and Carwow are back and this time he is bringing the heat. In this corner, the AMG E63 S and the opposite (in more ways than one), our hero, the Audi RS e-tron GT. Mat always tries to be in the car that he thinks will win and boasted that no Audi RS vehicle has won against the E63 S. Does this bode well for the RS e-tron GT? Watch below and find out.
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words: Bill, video: Motor1.com
Motor1.com had a little fun pitting two ICE cars up against the electric competition on a runway in Turkey: a C7 RS 6 Avant and a 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo in one corner and a Porsche Taycan Turbo, a Tesla Model S P100D, a Tesla Model S P90D, and a Tesla Model S P85D in the other. They took these vehicles through a 1000 meter drag race, a rolling race, and a brake test...standard fare it seems these days...
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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 ...
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words: Bill, video: carwow
It's not often you see full size sedans, well at least full size luxury super sedans, go up against each other in a drag race. Mat does just that in this latest video from carwow. The Flying Spur with the huge 635hp W12 lines up against its platform mate, the S8 with the 571 twin-turbo V8. Doesn't sound like a fair fight but the Bentley weighs in at 5,373lbs versus 4,916 for the S8; a difference of 457 pou...
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words: Per Eliasen, photos: Per Eliasen, George Achorn
Editor’s note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2020 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, join Audi Club here.
It all started while attending a vintage car event in Copenhagen back in 2007.
“Dad, you should get one of those NSUs and start racing!”
“Son, I am a gearhead but I have never heard of any NSUs making it to the USA�...
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words: Bill, photos: Audi AG
Are you free today at 1:15 pm EST? Audi is premiering the Q4 Sportback e-tron concept. We will try to share the video on our Facebook page but in case we miss it, you can find it on Audi YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and AudiMedia.TV.
Enjoy the reveal!
https://twitter.com/audiofficial/status/1280177186842918941?s=21
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words: Bill, video: carwow
You know the drill by now with carwow...drag race, rolling drag, and brake test from 70mph. The AMG has more power, more torque, and it sounds pretty darn good. The RS 7 is down in hp, torque, is slightly lighter, and sounds muted but it's also £50,000 less than the AMG. Plus I think it looks a lot better, in my humble opinion.
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How will our h...
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words: Bill, photos: Melvin Brewing
It's funny what shows up in my email...Hey Nerds, Audi-inspired beer. find of the day for ACNA? Gotta love your friends, right? It was effective though because...well, I'm writing about it.
Melvin Brewing is an award-winning brewery located in Alpine, WY. I heard that the owner is a big fan of Audi, such a big fan that he and his crew developed this, Cloudy 5000.
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source: Audi AG
Audi returns to the Big Game by encouraging audiences to let go of the past and drive into an era of radical reinvention
Cinematic spot features all-new Audi e-tron Sportback and sets scene for sharing brand’s path towards sustainable premium mobility
Spot represents first installment and worldwide kick-off of global Audi brand campaign
Audi returns to the biggest night in American football with a musicall...
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words: Bill, photos: Audi AG
Back in 2001 at the International Automobile Exhibit in Frankfurt (IAA), Audi presented the Avantissimo concept study. If you haven't heard about the Avantissimo concept before, you're forgiven. You see, the date that it was revealed on was September 11, 2001...
Our own quattro Magazine editor-in-chief, George Achorn, was there though he was covering it for his former website, fortitude.com. Nobody was paying...
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words: Bill, photos: Double Yikes
Well we're back with the Please Do Not Buy Holiday Gift Guide Number 2. If you missed Part 1, you can punish yourself HERE. Let's just dive right in, shall we?
Audi S-line quattro Gift T-shirt
I'll give these guys credit but not my credit card. As someone pointed out to me, what happens if you tuck this shirt in? Will the tip of the gecko's nose poke out of your pants? Is that a gecko in your pants or are...
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words: Bill, photos: uhhhh...yikes
The holidays are upon us and if you are anything like me, you're going to wait until the last minute to get gifts for your loved ones. However the following items may be more appropriate for your enemies...these things are tragic. We have a saying in the office that describes many of these: it has too many pieces of flair (a reference to Jennifer Anniston's job at TGIFriday in Office Space). Rings all...
words: Bill, video: CarWow
Oh to be Mat Watson from CarWow. We've featured him on several of our Video of the Day like this one, this one, and this one. Mat follows a familiar format to these videos: drag race, rolling drag race, and brake test. Most of the time, we feature the ones involving Audi versus the world. Today, it's different...a sibling brawl.
What Mat has assembled here a lineup of R8s - MKI V8, MkI V10 GT Spyder, MKI V10 LMX, and a MKII V10. He and his cohorts pit them agains...
words: Bill, video: Misha Charoudin, photos: Audi Club North America
The other day, we featured spy photos of the next generation RS 6 Avant on the Nurburgring. Today, I was lucky enough to find a video from Misha Charoudin's YouTube channel. He was quite delighted and surprised to see the RS 6 Avant on the track as he wasn't expecting the track to be opened.
There's a lot of scenes where he's eating, shopping, and walking around the track so I'll make it easy for you. The RS 6 Avant ...