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photos: Jason Jones
This is the companion gallery for the Concours in the Hills story on pg. 49 in the Q2_2022 quattro Magazine issue. Enjoy!
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Each month, our editors choose a selection of Audi Club members’ personal cars to share with quattro Magazine readers. If you would like to see your car featured, send your name, hometown, model, model year information, and a short paragraph about yourself to [email protected].
Louli Kourkounakis - 2001 Audi TT | Plainfield, NJI've owned TT's since 2010, this being my 2nd one. Finally got it to a place where it's just about don...
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words: George Achorn, photos: Denis Podmarkov and 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.
As summer heated up and the pandemic cooled, most any car enthusiast (at least those in the lower 48) was ecstatic to hear that Monterey Car Week was back on… COVID or not. If you had a roo...
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photos: George Achorn
Audi Club joins Longroof Rally 2021 with stops at FCP Euro, Palmer Motorsport Park, and of course, Stratton Mountain Resort. Read about the rally in the Q1_2022 issue of quattro Magazine.
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illustrations: Federico Ciuffolini
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
In 1993, Audi Sport found itself seeking a new direction. It had been nearly a decade since the legendary quattros were pulled from Group B and the factory rallying program shuttered. Several years had passed since one-and-done project...
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words: George Achorn, photos: Always Late Customs
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q1_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
Let’s face it; the toy aisle at the local Target may be intended for kids but we’re not 100% sure about the Hot Wheels section. Over the last few years, Mattel’s diecast toy cars division has been upping its game, ...
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words: George Achorn, photos: Avery Peechatka
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.
It was a brisk autumn morning when I first met Ming. He just rolled into the local cars and coffee in central Pennsylvania driving the first RS 6 Avant anyone had seen in those parts, parked it, and casually strolled off for a ...
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by: George Achorn, photos: Audi Spain
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
The RS e-tron GT has a distinctive note. A synthesized guttural audio signature that is felt as much as it is heard, apparently inspired by a didgeridoo according to Audi engineers, and perhaps filtered through the disposition of an...
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words: Bill Cho, photos: Damon Young, Martin Kruk
Editor’s Note: With the announcement yesterday of Audi of America celebrating the final year of the TT RS, we decided to rerun this article. The article originally ran in the Q1_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
Every once in a while, something you saw as a kid ends up sticking with you into adulthood. For Ric...
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by: Roy A Swaringen, Jr., Ph.D.
Editor's Note: This article originally ran in the Q1_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
Editor's Note 2: With Audi Club Potomac-Chesapeake's 2021 Fall Finale rapidly approaching, we decided to post the quattro Magazine article about last year's event.
If you, like me, occasionally feel the need for speed, the best solutio...
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words: George, photos: George Achorn, Bill Cho
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
“Consumer Unit”. It’s a term you hear when you spend time with a manufacturer like Audi. Loosely stated, it’s a car seen out in the wild and operated by a private owner. It’s a car that’s been purchased and driven b...
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words: George Achorn, photos: Lenny Piedmont
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q3_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
There’s something special about the arrival of a new performance offering like the RS 6 Avant. One-part pent-up demand and one-part the high level at which enthusiasts engage with such a car (sampled and compared on pp. 22-...
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words: George Achorn, drawings: Ivan Shmatov
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q2_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
“If you are passionate, you must do what you love.” It’s a personal credo and something to live by for Ivan Shmatov, a 32-year-old designer on the Audi Design Team. He’s also an auto enthusiast and artist who has also...
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By: Neil Gjertsen, photos: Gene Pascua
Editor’s note: This originally appeared in the Q1_2021 isue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
Mammoth Lakes, CA
There is so much to say about this event out west. First off, the nervous feeling of making it happen on a coast I was so unfamiliar with, during a global pandemic… and wildfires! This led to a few people I now count as...
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by: Steve Johnson, photos: Aaron Krott
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q1_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
True story: Bigfoot has been sighted in Salt Fork State Park in rural Cambridge, OH no less than 13 times in the last 25 years. More regular then, and decidedly less urban legend, is the annual One Lapp of Ohio Rally Tour, put on here ...
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by: Roger Garbow, photos: Roger Garbow, Tony Coletta, Ai Design
Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in the Q2_2021 issue of quattro Magazine. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here.
The B5 RS 4 Avant is one of those rare vehicles that is coveted by folks far beyond brand loyalists. For most enthusiasts, the car is absolutely perfect as created by the factory and it would be sacrilege to co...
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words: Bill, photos: WeAreInk
We run a column in quattro magazine called Choice Gear where we highlight Audi-centric items that we think our audience would love to have and we may have found another. WeAreInk is a London based company who makes limited edition digital prints like the Audi S1 E2 you see above...and below.
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They've stripped the paint and livery to show the sinister ...
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words: Denis Podmarkov, photos: Jamie Orr, Audi Club Western Canada, Audi Royal Oak, Gene Pascua, Calden Horuc-Lake
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.
@xjamiexoe www.instagram.com/xjamiexoe/
The biggest VW nerd we know but that doesn't mean he isn’t an instrumental part of the Audi scene. Jamie Orr (owner ...
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words: Troy Sicotte, photos: Gene Pascua
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.
Being involved with Audi Club, one eventually gets exposed to countless amazing Audi vehicles and owners. With more exposure from car shows to Audi Club HPDEs, it takes something rare and special to grab one’s attention.
We had jus...
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words: George Achorn, photos: Bay Area R8s
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.
No matter how many kids you have, no matter how many groceries you must get, and no matter how ardently you identify with vintage era of four-ring lineage, it’s hard to imagine any Audi enthusiast not lusting after an R8. Aud...
