16 Jan 2024

Retropower Teases ur quattro Resto Mod Project

[gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="95882"] UK-based firm Retropower is known for project builds of the restomod variety, that basically taking a classic car and bestowing it with modern performance, technology, luxuries and usually paired with a tailoring to the owner’s preferences. It’s a bespoke style build in the vein of Singer, a Porsche specialist known world round and who the likes of BringATrailer have compared with Retropower when describing the latter’s work. That...
4 Dec 2023

Find of the Day: 1981 Audi quattro Group 4

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93750"] photos: RM Sotheby's Sometimes I think of getting reborn into a different more exciting life. Not that there's anything wrong with my current one but sometimes...we can dream, right? That must have been the case with this car. It started life as a civilian 1981 quattro but after a rebirth, it's now ready to tackle the race lifestyle. Here's the ad: [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93755"] Prepared for and campaigned in E...
Mon, Dec 04 , 2023 Bill
16 Nov 2023

Stig Blomqvist Announces Ice Driving Experience

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93144"] 2024 will mark 40 years since Stig Blomqvist nabbed the rally world championship at the wheel of his Audi quattro, and to celebrate that anniversary he’s announced a super exclusive ice driving experience in cooperation with Routevare in Sweden and planned for February. Set to take place between February 19-25, Stig will act personally as driving instructor for 12 students (in two waves of six), while they’ll also reportedly be able t...
Thu, Nov 16 , 2023 Bill
29 Jun 2023

Obituary: Pavel Hušek, Influential Audi Designer of the 1970s

[gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="87536"] We recently learned of the passing of Pavel Hušek on May 7 via the Car Design Archives. Hušek was a designer at Audi in the early 1970s and heavily influenced Audi design direction at a pivotal time during the brand's rebirth. He joined Audi in 1973 and left in 1978. There's an interesting space in the world of car designers. While the spotlight usually focuses on heads of design, there is a level of designer who gets less f...
5 Apr 2023

AI Artwork is Taking Over, with Cool New Virtual Reality for Audi Enthusiasts

[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="85052"] In case you hadn't noticed, AI is taking over virtually every creative space in industry. These self-learning algorithmically run search engines are revolutionizing everything from writing, to coding and creation of images. Regulars on visual outlets such as Instagram would be hard pressed not to bump up against AI-created imagery... and sometimes you might not even know. In particular, image generation is particularly impactful on the automotiv...
29 Oct 2020

Find of the Day: 1986 Audi Coupe GT Commemorative Edition

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="54644"] words: Bill, photos: Cars & Bid When you think of Audi in the 80s, a couple of  iconic vehicles pop into mind: The Sport quattro and  the Quattro (ur-quattro). The Coupe GT was a version that didn't have the fender bulges of its muscular brother nor the turbo...nor the all-wheel drive. Yes, this is a front-wheel drive Audi but this one is a little special - it's a Commemorative Edition. The Commemorative Edition was set apar...
Thu, Oct 29 , 2020 Bill
7 May 2018

This One Time… at Rally Galicia…

Given it's Monday, and that's the appropriate time for everyone to share what they did over the weekend, we found ourselves highly entertained by a video we found posted over on Facebook. Our stage is Rally Galicia, and our star is a box-flared Audi 80 sedan blasting down a gravel road. Air ensues. Think he lands it? Watch below. https://www.facebook.com/Golovachuk.Vitalii/videos/1801798886546395/UzpfSTExNTg4Mjk2NjI6MTE4MDc0MDM5ODczNDgwNQ/
17 Apr 2018

Howden Haynes and His Sport quattro Daily Driver

words: Tim Enders, photos: Si Gray “Go.” With that one word early on in the 2008 documentary film “Truth in 24,” the world was introduced to race engineer Howden Haynes, one of the men behind the scenes of much of Audi’s domination in endurance racing with their legendary Le Mans prototype cars. “Go.” “Go.” “Go.” When we first see him on screen, Howden, better known as “H” to his friends, is obsessively clicking a stopwatch over and over, clipboard...