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Words: Steve Johnson
Hello again Audi aficionados! Thank you for clicking on another edition of Auction Watch where we’ve done the internet searching for you. We’ve checked multiple car auction sites looking for Audi models worthy of your bids. Each Thursday we post those listings calling out a car’s highlights, and include a few pictures and a link to the listing. Our goal is to help you find the Audi that you’re l...
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Words: Steve Johnson
Hello again Audi aficionados! Thank you for clicking on another edition of Auction Watch where we’ve done the internet searching for you. We’ve checked multiple car auction sites looking for Audi models worthy of your bids. Each Thursday we post those listings calling out a car’s highlights, and include a few pictures and a link to the listing. Our goal is to help you find the Audi that you’re l...
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Information coming out of Ingolstadt suggests Audi is in the conceptualization phase of hatching a replacement to its TT under the project name TT Evo. Even more interesting, it’s said to be one of a four car development project that will span the Audi, Porsche, Cupra and Volkswagen marques.
In other words, the upcoming electric Porsche Boxster/Cayman will be followed by a TT replacement, production version of the Cupra Dark Rebe...
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It's always a pleasure when we find an investment grade ur quattro for sale. This one is extra special for a number of reasons, given its U.S. spec, has logged just 31,200 miles and and is painted rare Tizian Red Metallic.
The dealership listing the car, CPR Classic in Southern California between San Diego and Los Angeles, lists the car as such:
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CPR Classic is delight...
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source: Audi AG
Unmistakable design with new details makes for impressive street presence
Headlights and rear lights customizable for the first time thanks to digital lighting technology
The variable interior concept offers the ideal basis for family, business, and free time
Audi has once again upgraded its flagship family SUV with a clear design and even better technology. The fresh exterior design with new front and rear sections ...
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With the debut this month of, the movie retelling the story of Audi versus Lancia in the 1983 World Rally Championship season, there’s a newfound spotlight on those early ’80s years as Audi fought to establish quattro as the all-out dominant technology, while Lancia stuck with a more traditional rear-wheel drive yet mid-engine layout in their 037 racecar. We know from history, and from the movie, that Lancia snagged that ’83 titl...
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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...
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We’ve covered this Frankenquattro before, and ran the story of its ’86 Paris-Dakar run on the blog yesterday. We did that in part because we saw Cars & Bids has offered it up for sale and likely timed with the 2024 Dakar Rally to get attention. So, if you’ve wanted to own a highly unique piece of quattro history, this car may very well fit the bill.
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Spoiler alert: Unde...
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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...
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source: Audi AG
Editor’s note: Occasionally, we feature a concept vehicle on the site. Most don’t make it into production but sometimes we wish they did
Originally published on October 19, 2005
Compact and powerfully athletic
Audi is unveiling a new highlight in the sporty compact segment at the Tokyo Motor Show: the ShootingBrake Concept is a study vehicle offering a further trailblazing interpretation of Audi's current formal id...
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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 ...
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source: Audi AG
Editor’s note: Occasionally, we feature a concept vehicle on the site. Most don’t make it into production but sometimes we wish they did.
With the 25th birthday of the Audi TT and its final run, we decided to have this and the next few Concept Corners focused on this design icon.
Originally published on April 19, 2014
The Audi TT offroad concept show car
Study combines the sportiness of a coupe with the utility of a...
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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:
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Prepared for and campaigned in E...
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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...
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Words: Steve Johnson
Greetings fellow Audi enthusiasts! Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model? While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time. So let us do some of the work for you. Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids. Each Thursday we post those listings calling out a car’s highlights, and include a ...
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photos: autoscout24
You've seen one Ur-quattro, you've seen them all, right? Well, I bet you haven't seen one like this before. This is a 1980 Audi quattro but it's also the oldest street version known. The ur Ur-quattro? Here's the ad (translated from German):
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The oldest (!) street-legal Audi Urquattro
first owner...
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Words: Steve Johnson
Greetings fellow Audi enthusiasts! Do you find yourself searching through the internet’s multiple car auction sites looking for a specific model? While it can be fun, it does consume valuable time. So let us do some of the work for you. Auction Watch monitors online auction sites for Audi models worthy of your bids. Each Thursday we post those listings calling out a car’s highlights...
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source: Audi AG
Exclusive event for customers and fans at Audi Forum Neckarsulm
Exciting insights into four decades of Audi Sport GmbH
Rolf Michl, Managing Director Audi Sport GmbH: “Proud past, even stronger future”
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Audi Sport GmbH, which evolved from quattro GmbH. In early summer, Audi started the events to celebrate this anniversary in parallel with the Nürburgring 24 Hours and an exhibiti...
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source: Audi AG
To mark the 40th birthday of Audi Sport GmbH, which evolved from quattro GmbH founded in 1983, the company presents 40 exciting facts.
quattro and quattro GmbH: Audi registered the quattro brand in 1979. The term quattro (Italian for “four”) stands for the drivetrain of an automobile that transfers power to all four of its wheels. In March 1980, the brand with the four rings presented the quattro sports co...
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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...