30 Jan 2024

’84 Audi Sport quattro Highlights $22.9M Arizona Sale by RM Sotheby’s

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="94738"] Arizona Car week is a wrap, and of particular interest in that mix was the 1984 Sport quattro sold by RM Sotheby's at their auction held at the Biltmore. The Audi Group B Homologation road car sold for $665,000, cementing a place in the sale's Top 10 transaction prices. [gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="94727"] More details can be found below in the RM Sotheby's press release. RM SOTHEBY'S KICKS OFF 2024 WITH A...
13 Oct 2023

Personal Focus: Leanne Kopras

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="91333"] words: Leanne Kopras, photos: Rob Mains, Brandon Locket Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. If someone would have told me when I was younger that owning an Audi would change my life forever, I would have laughed. I probably would have rolled on the floor laughing and pointing at them for how crazy that so...
Fri, Oct 13 , 2023 Bill
30 Dec 2021

Find of the Day: 2017 Twin Turbo Audi R8 V10 plus

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="67275"] words: Bill, photos: Jarrid Kopras What looks like a normal Audi R8 V10 plus is anything but. This red rocket hides a Sheepey Race twin turbo kit. It's owned by an Audi Club Arizona member and those guys know how to have a great time. They hold numerous events year round and a lot of them are road trips. You may have seen this on the road before. Here's the ad: [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="67278"] Title in hand ready...
Thu, Dec 30 , 2021 Bill
3 Sep 2021

Audi Club Arizona: H2OOOO Bottled Water Collection Drive 2021

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="63593"] words: Randy Nelson, photos: Dennis Collins When it is over 115 degrees for days at a time, water becomes an even more precious commodity, especially for those less fortunate.  Audi Club Arizona’s Nic Kelly organized a water bottle collection drive in conjunction with radio station 98KUPD’s “Operation Hydration”, an annual event supporting the Phoenix Rescue Mission’s Code: Red Summer Heat Relief. We had 22 cars deliver over 16...
Fri, Sep 03 , 2021 Bill
30 Jun 2021

Audi Club 2020 Member of the Year Winner Revealed

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="61920"] Kelly Batton representing the Audi Club Arizona Chapter is the Audi Club North America 2020 Member of the Year. Five Audi Club members were in contention for the award after being chosen by their respective chapter as Chapter Member of the Year nominees. The nine National Board Directors reviewed the nomination petitions and voted to choose the winner. The Member of the Year is the most prestigious acknowledgement that Audi Club ...
Wed, Jun 30 , 2021 Bill
11 May 2020

quattro Magazine Q2_2020 Event Report: Concours in the Hills with Audi Club Arizona

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="47217"] words: Randy Nelson, photos: Leanne Kopras, Paul Targosz Editor’s note: This article originally ran in the Q2_2020 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. Given the temperate climate of Arizona and the time of year, it’s not terribly hard to coax automobile enthusiasts to the Grand Canyon State in the winter. In looking around the show field, seemingly all of thos...
Mon, May 11 , 2020 Bill
26 Mar 2020

The Audi Club North America 2019 Member of the Year

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="42679"] Introducing the Audi Club North America 2019 Member of the Year! The 2020 Audi Club North America Board of Directors gathered in Dallas to cast their votes for the 2019 Audi Club Member of the Year from a list of very dedicated Club members. And the winner is…Leanne Kopras of Audi Club Arizona! The Member of the Year is the most prestigious acknowledgement that Audi Club North America can bestow on one of its members. It is an honor gi...
Thu, Mar 26 , 2020 Bill
4 Nov 2019

Audi Club Arizona Photo Contest

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="18917"] words/photos: Audi Club Arizona Our Arizona Chapter is always looking for ways to spread the word and continue our explosive membership growth. Knowing Audi owners are born with a dominant Audi gene that causes a need to show the world their “sunglasses before looking” automobiles, our Social Media Director Leanne Kopras thought a photo contest would be an ideal vehicle to create potential new members and have some fun. It was!  Rule...
Mon, Nov 04 , 2019 Bill
26 Sep 2019

quattro Magazine Q3_2019: Event – 2019 Rally in the Valley

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="35539"] By: Mark Valenti, photos: Amanda Ashley Photography, courtesy of the Sextant Group, Inc. an NV5 Company Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the q3_2019 issue of quattro Magazine. Fifty-five people. Eighteen teams. Sixteen Audi vehicles. Eight finishers. Four rings. After fourteen years of sponsoring successful road rallies in Pittsburgh, The Sextant Group, Inc., brought the company’s annual tradition to Phoenix a...
Thu, Sep 26 , 2019 Bill
2 Aug 2019

quattro Magazine Q3_2019: Five Instagrammers Audi Enthusiasts Need to Follow

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="32237"] words: Denis Podmarkov, photos: Walter Roehrl, Audi Ontario, Jeremy Cliff, Gene Pascua, Audi Club Arizona Editor: This originally ran in the Q3_2019 issue of quattro Magazine. Don't forget to follow our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/audiclubna/ @walter.roehrl https://www.instagram.com/walter.roehrl/ I bet you didn't know that Audi Sport legend Walter Röhrl is über cool and has an IG account with over 120,000 followers. We...
Fri, Aug 02 , 2019 Bill
13 Feb 2019

Audi Club Arizona: 2019 Arizona Concours in the Hills presented by Scuderia Southwest

words: Brian McCauley, photos: Brian McCauley & Audi Club Arizona Editor's Note: I want to start profiling chapter events on our website. If your chapter has an event and you have great photos and someone to write it up, please forward to me at [email protected]. Thank you! The Concours in the Hills is an annual event that takes place in Fountain Hills, Arizona each February. Unlike most of the country during this time of year, Arizona isn’t under inches of snow or drowning in ra...
Wed, Feb 13 , 2019 Bill