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26 Feb 2024

Shattering the Glass Ceiling at 14,119 Feet: Michèle Mouton & Her Record Run at Pike’s Peak 35 Years On

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="50923"] words: George Achorn, photos: Audi AG, Volkswagen AG, Audi of America, Audi Tradition, Getty Images 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. When Michèle Mouton returned to Colorado in the summer of 1985, it’s safe to assume she had some unfinished business there. Audi Sport’s high-profile French driver had taken...

5 Feb 2024

Feature Car: A TT Circle of Life

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="96856"] words: Randy Nelson, photos: Troy Sicotte 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. I have always been fascinated with cars beginning at age five or six when I collected, painted and raced a fleet of little white-wheeled plastic cereal box cars around the living room, using the walls for hig...

24 Jan 2024

Electric Attraction: “One More Ring”

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="96206"] words: Denis Podmarkov, photos: Akiko Liu Editor’s Note: We would like to congratulate Denis and Nancy. Denis is a longtime photographer/contributer to quattro Magazine and a friend to all of us. Much love to your future, Denis and Nancy! 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. Planning an engageme...

16 Jan 2024

Event Report: TT West 2023 – Spanish Trails of Arizona and New Mexico

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="95836"] by: Larry Brickner Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q4_2023 issue of quattro Magazine. TT West – where the most fun between two points on the map is never a straight line. TT West is the longest running TT event in the USA. It started in 2001 when a group of SoCal owners wanted to stretch the legs of their recently acquired Audi sports cars with a long weekend trip to Lake Tahoe. The following year, I joined the a...

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...

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...

4 Jan 2024

Feature: Frankenstein Monster of Dakar

[gallery columns="1" link="file" size="full" ids="95192"] The incredible story of the quattro Paris-Dakar and its illustrious builder Franco de Paoli words: George Achorn, photos: Franco de Paoli Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2019 issue of quattro Magazine. The 2024 Dakar Rally begins tomorrow, while the car you see in this story also hits the auction market this week elsewhere in these pages. In as much, it seemed the perfect opportunity to re-tell this story. If ...

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...

21 Dec 2023

Audi Club Rocky Mountain Winter Driving Events Summary

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94373"] words: Scott Pedram, photos: Drew Carlson 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. Every winter for the past several years, Audi drivers in the Colorado area get excited about another round of ice driving events on Georgetown Lake. Each event includes instruction on how Audi automobiles a...

12 Dec 2023

Feature Car: Roadtrip – Arctic Ocean Run in Offroad Q7

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="94067"] by: Ryder Holuboff 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. As early-generation Audi SUVs age, become more affordable and go off warranty, the sheer growth of the so-called “Safari” / off-road category has been nothing short of impressive. These quattro SUVs are sure-footed and robust, perf...

6 Dec 2023

Feature Car: Performance & Pragmatism, Nick and Henny’s Audi e-tron S

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93808"] photos: James Lee aka food4audis 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. As the tide of electromobility rolls into the automotive market, we suspect the story of this e-tron S is something that is likely to be repeated. Nick and Henny aren’t new to enthusiast car ownership. They’ve had a ra...

28 Nov 2023

Feature Car: Audi RS 6+ by ABT Sportsline

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93197"] by: 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. It may seem counterintuitive to go all the way to Germany to take a closer look at a U.S.-specific Audi RS 6 special edition from ABT Sportsline, but that’s precisely what we found ourselves doing in the peak of autumn. While in German...

15 Nov 2023

Feature Car: Alessandra Rambo’s Merlin Job Opportunity

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93010"] words: Ray Reyes, photos: Tanner Bischofberger 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. For every car enthusiast, there’s usually a source of inspiration they might point to who ignited the passion. Most will tell you that it runs in the family, or it started with their dad, uncle or mot...

8 Nov 2023

Mom’s Eye View: The Audi Club Teen Driving Clinic

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="92509"] by: Laura Parmer-Lohan 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. Calling all teens! Sign up today and “hit the gas hard, accelerate and then slam the brakes!” What parent in their right mind would allow their newly minted driver to take a driving clinic that encouraged them to take such...

31 Oct 2023

Driving is Feminine: The DirtFish Women in Motorsport Summit

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="92273"] by: Talia Pakkala, photos: DirtFish Rally School, Talia Pakkala 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. A weekend in overcast, rainy Seattle started off bright for the attendees of DirtFish Rally School. For a second year, the DirtFish team opened their facility to hundreds of enthusiasts and curated an incre...

25 Oct 2023

Feature Car: Kirby and her Carribean Blue S4

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="92076"] words: Ryan Ponto, photos: Karl Lee / @karlleephoto 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. Donna, a.k.a. Kirby, is one of the newer members of Audi Club Western Canada, living in Calgary, Alberta. She originally fell in love with Audi when she first drove an A4 back in 2013. By 2018 sh...

18 Oct 2023

Feature Car: Papaya Hearththrob

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="91438"] words: Louli Kourkounakis, photos: Peter Parker 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. Emmalene Rebecca (@bagged_cheeztt) first gained an interest in the car community when her then boyfriend took her to VAG Fair in York, PA. Walking around, checking out the cars and talking with others, she fell in love wi...

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...

6 Oct 2023

quattro Magazine: A Time to Rally – Michèle Mouton & the 1982 Rallye Côte d’Ivoire

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="91009"] words: George Achorn, photos: Audi Tradition 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. Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Mornings at the Hotel Ivoire are typically not so busy as they were at 7 AM on Wednesday October 27, 1982. A modern hotel situated near the shore of Ivory Coast’s economic capital, t...

26 Sep 2023

Stay the Course: Lia and Lucy Block Press on as Fierce Competitors in American Rally

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="90445"] by: Mina Achorn, photos: Justic Goble 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. To say the Block family - yes, that Block family - has a busy schedule these days would be a massive understatement. Forget school sports or final exams for Lia, much less anyone else, because that’s just the start of it. Lia and...

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