22 Mar 2023

quattro Magazine: RS e-tron GT versus Angeles Crest

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="84508"] words/photos: George Achorn Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q1_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. Instagram link: @goodvibesbreakfastclub Los Angeles is a mecca of car culture for so many reasons. Look past the bumper-to-bumper snarl of its freeways and you’ll find a city steeped in automotive history, culture and in...
20 Feb 2023

Unfair Advantage Podcast: George Achorn Considers Electrification vs. Internal Combustion. Are We There Yet?

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="83451"] When George Achorn produced the latest issue of quattro Magazine with a heavy focus on electromobility, he thought he knew just about everything he needed to know. He’s owned an e-tron since 2019. Even still, driving the new Q4 on the autobahn, the RS e-tron GT on Angeles Crest Highway, diving into the makings of Electrikhana with Hoonigan and real world experiences have opened his eyes to a lot. So what’d he learn and where does h...
1 Dec 2022

Celebrate Audis of the 80s and 90s with Hagerty Media…and Audi Club Will Be There

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="79879"] photo: Hagerty On December 8th at 7pm Eastern, Hagerty will be live-streaming a panel to discuss Audi vehicles from the 80s and 90s...one of my most favorite era. Our own George Achorn, Audi Club Executive Director, will be on the panel and he is a wealth of Audi knowledge. If you want to listen in, join Hagerty and George HERE. Hagerty press release: During the 1980s and 1990s, Audi products began appealing to an ever-wider g...
25 Oct 2022

Event Gallery: L’oe Show 2022

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="78193"] photos: George Achorn This is the photo gallery companion piece for the L'oe Show 2022 article in the Q4_2022 issue of quattro Magazine.
26 Jul 2022

Event Report: L’oe Show 2021

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="74415"] words/photos: George Achorn Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q4_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. L'oe Show 2022 registration is open. You can register here. Jamie Orr, better known for his YouTube channel and European car importation, jokes that the name of his hometown “Pottstown” may be apropos given the number of potholes on the s...
5 Apr 2022

Unfair Advantage Podcast: Brad Beardow, Owner RML Wheels and Co-Founder of fifteen52, Talks Wheels, Builds, Audi Sport in the 80s, EVs, Gymkhana, the Car Hobby, and Much, Much More

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="70415"] Brad Beardow may be best known as co-founder of fifteen52 and its association with Ken Block's Gymkhana series, but his career goes back much further. After meeting Audi's American motorsport boss Jo Happen by chance in Florida in the early 90s, Beardow founded his own tuning firm VW Sport selling ABT Sportsline, Projectzwo and more in the DC area, later morphing to 1552 Design. After a short period managing editorial at VWvortex and Fou...
22 Feb 2022

Unfair Advantage Podcast: Brian Scotto, Hoonigan Chief Creative Officer, Talks SEMA Cars and Audi Addiction (Part 1)

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="68838"] Brian Scotto has been a lot of things: Magazine Editor, Film Director, and now YouTube personality Chief Creative Officer at Hoonigan. Through all that, he's also had a serious addiction to the Audi brand... particularly the big bodies. In this first part of our discussion with him, we talk about Hoonigan's Audi SEMA cars, his Coupe quattro and Ken Block's Sport quattro, plus his ever-expanding Audi habit. Watch on our YouTube channe...
24 Dec 2020

The Clark Kent of Supercars: 2020 Audi R8 V10 performance quattro

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="53070"] words/photos: George Achorn Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q4_2020 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. The notion of Clark Kent was always a little perplexing. Here was Superman in a well-cut suit, a set of glasses, multifaceted enough to both fight crime and pen news stories for the Daily Planet… and no one really questioned it. Clark had t...
1 Sep 2020

Video of the Day: 1972 V8 quattro swapped Audi 100 Coupé S

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="51470"] words: Bill, photos: George Achorn, Jamie Orr If you're friends with George on Facebook (or in real life), you may know that he bought a new-to-him Audi in Sweden and had it shipped over. This Audi? I like to call it Frankenstein though George prefers Elly. Why do I/George call it Frankenstein/Elly? Well...just sit right back and you'll hear a tale; a tale of a monster Audi 100 S Coupé. [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="5...
28 Aug 2020

quattro Magazine Q3_2020: Paris-Dakar 1985: Driver’s View – An interview with Audi Sport France driver José Lourseau

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="51225"] words: George Achorn, photos: José Lourseau of dakardantan.com Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2020 issue of quattro Magazine and is Part 2. You may find Part 1 HERE. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. quattro Magazine: How did you become part of the Audi France Dakar team? José Lourseau: I had the chance to participate in the 1980 race in a Range Rover. I finished 31s...
19 Aug 2020

quattro Magazine Q3_2020: NSU 1200TT: Father of the Current Day Audi TT

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="50714"] 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�...
3 Jun 2020

quattro Magazine Q2_2020 Feature: Pacific German’s Remixed R8

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="48058"] words: George Achorn, photos: Denis Podmarkov Believe it or not, you’ve seen this car before. Well, if you’re a longtime reader of quattro Magazine, then you may recall that we featured a modified R8 back in 2018 (“Red is Right”, pp. 36-38, quattro quarterly Summer 2018). While that may not qualify as a long time by most measures, it is a considerable amount in Pacific German years. For that well-known SoCal shop, life moves prett...
29 May 2020

Find of the Day: Throwdown Edition Episode 3 Recap and a Preview of Episode 4

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="47901"] words: Bill Episode 3 went just as we planned; guests bringing multiple cars for a single car category, me breaking my own rules...you know, the normal stuff. Episode 3 featured guests Javad Shadzi, Founder and President of 034 (zero-three-four) Motorsport; Josh Paashaus, owner of Nothing Leaves Stock; and Ray Reyes, my personal chef at Audi Club events. [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="47907"] The 3 categories last wee...
8 May 2020

Find of the Day: Weekly Throwdown Edition – We’re Going Live Tonight & Inviting Friends For A Debate

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="37014"] words: Bill Tonight at 7pm Eastern, Audi Club is going live on Facebook to debate who has found the 'best' Find of the Day. Tonight's distinguished panel: Will Barber- washed up internet celebrity, John Acton- Sausage King of Chicago, Jamie Orr- Scruffy Automotive Extraordinaire. The hosts are: George Achorn- Executive Director of Audi Club NA and my boss (so no funny nickname, sir), and me, Bill Cho, Private Slow. [gallery link="n...
29 Apr 2020

Q1_2020 quattro Magazine Feature: Nemesis Autosport Audi RS 5 performance at a Crossroads

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="46821"] word/photos: George Achorn Though it may seem obvious, it’s actually quite rare that the serious performance aftermarket crosses paths with Audi corporate. There are the typical shortcomings: either the brand’s reluctance over modifying its products or the aftermarket’s aesthetic being rarely on the same wavelength as the brand design. When the paths do cross, as they did recently with Audi Sport performance parts, it is something t...
4 Feb 2020

quattro Magazine q1_2020: Event Report – Avantoberfest 2019

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="42967"] words: Don Adams, photos: George Achorn, Kieran Buttrick, Lenny Piedmont Editor’s note: This article originally ran in the q1_2020 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, join Audi Club here. Editor's note #2: Our photo gallery was huge so we split it between the three photographers who contributed to this article. Photo gallery by Lenny Piedmont Photo gallery by Kieran Buttrick Photo gallery by Ge...
4 Feb 2020

Avantoberfest 2019 Photo Gallery (by George Achorn)

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="42983"] photos: George Achorn This is part of the gallery for our Event Report: Avanotberfest 2019. We had so many photos, we decided to split them up between the three photographers who contributed to the q1_2020 quattro Magazine article.
6 Nov 2019

S1:E8 Unfair Advantage Podcast: Tom Kristensen Part 1: Space-Shuttle-Side Chat with Mr. Le Mans at Audi Club Nationals 2019

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="32673"] Yes, Virginia...we still have a podcast. George & I have been busy with traveling to Avantoberfest, meeting in Herndon (Audi HQ), getting the q4_2019 issue of quattro Magazine to bed, and prepping/working the National Event in the D.C. are so we apologize for not airing more episodes. BUT during that time, we did record some podcast including a 800-mile roundtrip in an Audi e-tron and an in-depth interview with Tom Kristensen. In...
24 Oct 2019

Video: Space-Shuttle-Side Chat with Tom Kristensen at Audi Club Nationals

If you missed this year's Audi Club Nationals, then fear not... you didn't miss out entirely. The event culminated in a space-shuttle-side chat with Tom Kristensen at the Smithsonian's gargantuan Udvar Hazy Air & Space museum. Video of Mr. Le Mans' conversation can be found below or directly on YouTube HERE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EYsFW5X9o&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1NX64nM6OVV8l_wbF2EUm9VCx5aE_yP7Hbmy0LttiVPjbPYcbqQ_LGmwE
28 Jun 2019

quattro Magazine: Taking the 2019 Audi Q8 to the extreme in the American West

words: George Achorn, photos: Audi of America (Jim Fets) Editor’s note: This article originally ran in the q2_2019 issue of quattro magazine. Is it a “crossover” or an “SUV”? I was in the weeds in more ways than one with an Audi of America product planner in remote and frigid Colorado philosophizing over just what the new Audi Q8 is. I’d called it a “crossover”. He argued “SUV”. From his perspective, an SUV is a more attractive term... at least in the American market. SUV in...