15 Feb 2024

Audi Club Auction Watch: 02.15.2024

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="97349"] Words: Steve Johnson Hello again Audi enthusiasts!  Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model?  While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time you could spend planning all your Audi Club adventures for 2024.  So let us do some of the work for you.  Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids.  Each Thursday we post thos...
8 Feb 2024

Audi Club Auction Watch: 02.08.2024

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="97136"] Words: Steve Johnson Hello again Audi enthusiasts!  Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model?  While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time you could spend planning all your Audi Club adventures for 2024.  So let us do some of the work for you.  Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids.  Each Thursday we post thos...
6 Feb 2024

Jon Olsson Reveals His Own RS 6 Avant F1. Announces New Company.

[gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="97068"] Skier turned social influencer Jon Olsson has been a fixture in the Audi tuning/building space over the years. A regular on supercar rallies, he’s built everything from roof box R8s, an Audi-powered Radical Le Mans LMP-looking road car, and multiple bonkers RS 6 builds. Following Jon’s Instagram account will see he plays with many cars and many brands, but it’s his latest RS 6 Avant that grabbed our attention yesterday. [galle...
31 Jan 2024

More Facelifted SQ7 Photos, Including Audi exclusive + Video

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="96716"] Yesterday Audi dropped the first images and details of the upcoming facelifted Q7 and SQ7 models (find that HERE). In the time since, we’ve dug up some new information on the Q7 and SQ7 for those seeking to know more. Here’s what we found. This Exterior Design Animation from Audi shows design details, including light animation and other subtle cues you may have missed perusing press photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFDlBBGvj...
26 Jan 2024

Audi Wins Trademark Case Over Aftermarket Grille Company in EU Court

  [gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="96538"] Audi has just won a trademark rights case defending use of its logo against a Polish aftermarket company in the European Court of Justice. “A car manufacturer can prohibit the use of a sign identical or similar to the trademark it owns for spare parts,” stated the ECJ in a court press release today. Audi AG had brought the case against Polish parts company “GQ” for selling non-original grille assemblies for olde...
23 Jan 2024

Volkswagen Group Brands Celebrate Anniversaries at Bremen Classic Motor Show

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="96247"] "50 years of Volkswagen Scirocco": Autostadt shows first and second generation vehicles Volkswagen Classic celebrates the start of the anniversary year "50 years Volkswagen Golf" Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles celebrates "45 years of the third generation Volkswagen Transporter" Audi Tradition Parts is represented with the first generation of the Audi RS 4 Avant [source: AutoStadt] Wolfsburg, GERMANY - Four brands, four jubilees...
23 Jan 2024

Audi Club Auction Watch: 01.23.2024

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="96156"] Words: Steve Johnson Hello again Audi enthusiasts!  Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model?  While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time you could spend planning all your Audi Club adventures for 2024.  So let us do some of the work for you.  Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids.  Normally it’s on Thursda...
22 Jan 2024

New PPE-Based Porsche Macan Set to Drop This Week

[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="96114"] [source: Porsche AG] Porsche will present the new all-electric Macan on Thursday, 25 January 2024. The second generation of the successful SUV will be unveiled in Singapore, with the world premiere broadcast live in the Porsche Newsroom. Shortly before the world premiere of the new Porsche Macan, Michael Mauer discusses the challenge of updating the familiar design of the successful SUV. “The new Macan is the first model that we are electr...
18 Jan 2024

Audi Club Auction Watch: 01.18.2024

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="95940"] Words: Steve Johnson Hello again fellow Audi enthusiasts!  Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model?  While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time you could spend planning all your Audi Club adventures for 2024.  So let us do some of the work for you.  Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids.  Each Thursday we po...
15 Jan 2024

1–2 Lead for Audi at the Halfway Point of the 2024 Dakar Rally

[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="95788"] Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz lead ahead of Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist Excitement, variety and a balanced field characterize the rally Terrain, distances and navigation place the highest demands [source: Audi Sport] At the halfway point of the Dakar Rally, Team Audi Sport can look back on its best performance to date: In its third participation in the desert classic, Audi with the Spaniards Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz ahead of the Swedes Matt...
12 Jan 2024

2024 Welcomes First North American Built ABT RS 7 Legacy Edition

[gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="95634"] [source: ABT Sportsline North America] The RS 7 is undoubtedly one of Audi’s most extravagant vehicles. The comparatively small production number has made it predestined for individualists and fans of a particularly sporty appearance. The RS7 Legacy Edition, limited to 200 units worldwide, is even more powerful and characteristic. The very first ABT RS7-LE in North America was just finished by ABT partner Masterpiece Auto in Mi...
12 Jan 2024

Spotlight: 1974 Audi Coupe Speciale Mittelmotor Concept by Frua

[gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="95605"] There’s no question the 60s and 70s was a golden era of iconic sportscar design, particularly with coupes and roadsters that came out of European marques at the time. Long before Audi ever considered an R8, there were the legends from Ferrari and Lamborghini, not to mention countless others from marques like Jaguar, Maserati and even Mercedes-Benz. Unfortunately, Audi hadn’t yet made its pre-war return during most of this time. By ...
11 Jan 2024

Freeman Thomas & the Origin of the First Audi TT

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="95593"] By: George Achorn, photos: Audi AG Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q4_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. It was accompanied by a podcast with Freeman Thomas that can be found HERE. The pitch meeting with Porsche had bombed. Freeman Thomas knew his former employer wasn’t fully on board with the idea, but Franz Josef Paefgen confirmed it. This time, Audi’s head of Technical Development traveled to Stuttgart t...
10 Jan 2024

Event Report: L’OE Show 2023

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="95483"] by: George Achorn Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q4_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. By their nature, parades are random things, typically special interest representing the local community. It seems fitting then that the L’OE Show began its day with a parade. No really, it was an actual parade, led by the local marchin...
Wed, Jan 10 , 2024 Bill
5 Jan 2024

Feature Car: Brian Scotto’s Roadtrip Therapy

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="95146"] by: Brian Scotto Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q2_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. Crossing the Border to Finalize a Pandemic Purchase The steering wheel, a blue-anodized, two-spoked, dished Sparco, squishes as I grip what is left of the soggy, disintegrating foam-wrapped ring. I am later told this wheel came out of a...
Fri, Jan 05 , 2024 Bill
4 Jan 2024

Q&A: Carlos Sainz Part of Q8 e-tron edition Dakar Development

[gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="95180"] The Audi Q8 e-tron edition Dakar1 draws inspiration from a remarkable source: On the exterior, the lifted chassis and the optional decals of the special edition model, which is available in limited numbers throughout Europe, are reminiscent of the RS Q e-tron. It was designed for the Dakar Rally featuring an electric drive system and an energy converter. When evaluating the off-road capabilities of the Q8 e-tron edition Dakar1, Car...
4 Jan 2024

Audi Club Auction Watch: 01.04.2024

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="95058"] Words: Steve Johnson Happy New Year fellow Audi enthusiasts!  Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model?  While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time you could spend planning all your Audi Club adventures for the coming year.  So let us do some of the work for you.  Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids.  Each ...
28 Dec 2023

Audi Club Auction Watch: 12.28.2023

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94835"] Words: Steve Johnson Happy Holidays fellow Audi enthusiasts!  Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model?  While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time you could spend returning those Christmas gifts that, were well-intended, just aren’t you.  So let us do some of the work for you.  Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of y...
26 Dec 2023

SQ5 About: Cross-Country Trekking in the Land of Oz

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94672"] words/photos: Todd Bliwise Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q2_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. Sometimes a brand comes along that defines us, inspires us and drives us. These can be literal or figurative aspirations, but the root connection to the brand is that it propels us forward to be something more. For me, that...
Tue, Dec 26 , 2023 Bill
21 Dec 2023

Dakar Rally 2024: Team Audi Sport Ahead of a Great Challenge

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94577"] source: Audi AG Innovative prototype up against strong competition Audi driver crews look forward to tough challenges in January Team Audi Sport and QMS form a proven organizational structure The Audi RS Q e-tron faces its third Dakar Rally. Team Audi Sport has optimized the pioneering rally prototype, that has an electric drivetrain, a high-voltage battery and an energy converter, in meticulous detail for the toughest rall...
Thu, Dec 21 , 2023 Bill