February 4, 2012

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Audi A5 gets new TDIe engines & SE Technik spec

Audi A5 TDIe

Audi has made the A5 Coupe and Sportback even more efficient with two new TDIe engines and SE Technik specification option. We’ve only just reported the powerful BiTurbo 3.0 litre diesel engines for the Audi A6 and A7, and now we get news from Audi of diesel engines at the other end of the spectrum with [...]

More powerful Audi TT RS and new Audi RS4 Avant at Geneva

Blue 2012 Audi TT RS

Audi will debut a more powerful TT RS and a new Audi RS4 with 444bhp at the Geneva Motor Show in March. There’s been talk for some time that there will be an Audi TT RS Plus arriving sometime soon with extra horses, no back seats and a raft of weight saving measures – the [...]

Audi A6 & Audi A7 get 309bhp V6 Bi-Turbo Diesel

Silver Audi A6 Avant 3.0 BiTDI quattro

Audi has launched a new 309bhp V6 BiTurbo diesel engine in the UK for the A6 range and A7 Sportback. If you’re in Germany and wondering why reporting a new, more powerful Bi-Turbo diesel for the A6 and A7 is news, that’s because you’ve already got it, and we haven’t. Until now. Audi has now got round [...]

2012 Audi A6 Allroad UK price from £43,145

2012 Audi A6 Allroad

Just days after the reveal of the new A6 Allroad, Audi has announced that the 2012 A6 Allroad will start at £43,145. In the midst of the reveals at the Detroit Auto Show last week, Audi revealed the 2012 A6 Allroad in Germany, and a decent-looking Allroad it is too. Unlike previous iterations of the [...]

2013 Audi A6 Allroad unveiled

2013 Audi A6 Allroad

Audi are busy showing off the new A4 Allroad at the Detroit Auto Show, but this morning they have revealed its big brother – the 2013 Audi A6 Allroad in Germany. Audi has only just launched the 2012 A4 Allroad – which is on show at the Detroit Auto Show as we write – but they’ve already got its [...]

Audi Q3 Vail Concept previews Audi Q3 RS +video

Audi Q3 Vail Concept

The Audi Q3 Vail Concept – revealed at the Detroit Auto Show – gets a winter theme and previews the RS-engined hot Q3 Audi are planning. The Interwebs decided this last few days that the Audi Q3 Vail would be a two-door coupe version of the Q3 – a mini X6, for want of a [...]

2014 Audi R8 to drop manual gearbox

2014 Audi R8 to lose manual gearbox

It’s reported that the new Audi R8 – due in 2104 after a facelift in 2012 – will lose the manual gearbox option. It’s at least two years before the next generation Audi R8 arrives in 2014, but if reports from CAR are right then Audi’s next sporting flagship will do without a manual gearbox altogether. With [...]

Is this the 2013 Audi TT?

2013 Audi TT?

A photo released by Audi with the announcement that Wolfgang Egger is the new Head of Audi Brand Design seems to show the 2013 Audi TT. It’s not all that unusual for a picture revealed by a car maker to have a hidden Easter Egg; something that’s only there if you look hard. And the guys over at [...]

Audi A1 quattro with 252bhp revealed

Audi A1 quattro

Audi has unveiled a limited edition Audi A1 quattro with 4WD and 252bhp. Just 333 to be built and probably no RHD versions. You may thinks the A1 quattro revealed this morning by Audi should really be the S1. It would make sense. After all, this very hot hatch musters 252bhp thanks to the same [...]

Audi Q7 3.0 TDI quattro 204PS arrives in the UK

Audi Q7 3.0 TDI quattro 204PS

Audi has launched the Q7 3.0 TDI quattro 204PS in to the UK with 39.2mpg and reducing CO2 to 189g/km. Starts at £39,995. A less powerful engine for the Audi Q7 isn’t the first thing that jumps to mind as the right way to go, but Audi thinks there’s a market. So it’s introducing the Q7 3.0 TDI quattro 204PS offering a lower [...]

Audi Q6 Confirmed

Audi Q6 Confirmed

VW Group’s Head of Design, Walter de Silva, has confirmed Audi are planning to launch a ‘Sporty’ SUV to sit between the Q5 and Q7 – the Audi Q6. We don’t know for certain that Audi will call the car they are planning to sit between the Q5 and Q7 will be the Audi Q6, [...]

Audi A1 Sportback Five-Door: Price & specs UK

Audi A1 Sportback Five-Door Price

Last week saw the reveal of the five-door Audi A1 Sportback, and Audi has now revealed full pricing details for the new A1 for the UK. Last week Audi revealed the new addition to the A1 family – the five-door A1 Sportback – with an extra set of doors and just the tiniest bit of [...]

New Audi TT at Tokyo Show? Or could it be the Audi R4?

New Audi TT Audi R4

Rumours are growing that Audi will show a new TT at the Tokyo Motor Show this month. Or could it be the Audi R4? A few weeks ago Audi Blog in the Netherlands ran a sketch of what they thought was a new Audi TT. But it was a very basic sketch and, although interesting, [...]

New Audi A1 Sportback: The Five-Door A1 arrives for 2012

New Audi A1 Sportback (2012) 5 Door

Almost two years on from the launch of the three-door A1, Audi reveal the five-door version – The Audi A1 Sportback. With almost two years of sales of the ‘Only Premium Car in its Class’ (Audi’s assertion), Audi has revealed the more practical version of its smallest car – the five-door Audi A1 Sportback. Visually, the five-door [...]

New Audi A1 Black Edition and Contrast Edition & 143PS 2.0-litre TDI engine

New Audi A1 Black Edition & A1 Contrast Edition

Audi has revealed the A1 Black Edition and A1 Contrast Edition plus a new 143PS 2.0-litre TDI engine option. It was always obvious from the start when Audi launched the A1 that they intended to go the MINI route and offer as many options and limited editions as they could muster. So the launch of [...]

New Audi A4 (2012): UK prices start at under £24k

2012 Audi A4 UK Price

Audi has opened the order book for the facelifted 2012 Audi A4 in the UK, with prices starting from £24k for the 1.8 TFSI 120PS. The facelifted Audi A4 isn’t a new A4 for 2012, just one with plenty of tweaks and changes under the skin to freshen it up for its battle against the BMW [...]

Audi TT RS Plus? Or just Europe getting the U.S TT RS for 2012?

Audi TT RS Plus

There are rumours of a more powerful Audi TT RS on the way – the TT RS Plus – but is this just Europe catching up with the power of the U.S. TT RS? The Interwebs have been full of rumours that we’re about to get a new Audi TT RS – the TT RS [...]

Audi A1 e-tron Wankel range-extender EV trial begins

Audi A1 e-tron Trial

Audi has begun a trial programme in Munich for the  A1 e-tron EV with the Wankel powered range extender engine. 20 A1 e-trons are taking part in the ‘Electric Mobility in Munich’ project. If car makers are going to foist electric cars on us, the least they can do is make them as useful as the limited technology permits. [...]

New Audi A4 (2012) arrives: Audi A4, S4 and A4 Allroad

New Audi A4 (2012)

The facelifted Audi A4 arrives in spades today, with the 2012 A4 (and estate), Audi S4 (and estate) and Audi A4 Allroad all revealed. On sale Spring 2012. The current Audi A4 has been with us since 2008, but with the Mercedes C Class and the BMW 3 Series upping their game it’s time for Audi to strike [...]

Audi Q3 RS confirmed – but it won’t be badged RS

Audi Q3 RS

Audi has confirmed that it will be producing a Q3 with an RS engine, but that it won’t be badged RS. In fact no Audi Q will get the RS badge. Back in June we reported that Audi are working on a quick Q3 with something around 300bhp. We didn’t think it would get to [...]

Audi TT Coupe 1.8 TFSI launches as entry-level TT

Audi TT Coupe 1.8 TFSI

Audi has revealed a new entry-level TT – the Audi TT Coupe 1.8 TFSI – with 158bhp and priced from £24,070. We wonder if Audi is starting to feel a bit of pain from Peugeot’s RCZ? If it is, that would explain the decision to introduce a new entry-level Audi TT starting at just £24,070 – the  Audi [...]

LG seeks a ban on BMW & Audi imports to Korea

LG seek AUDI BMW LED ban Korea

Electronics giant LG is seeking a ban on imports of BMW & Audi cars to Korea over an ongoing patent infringement dispute with German firm Osman. It seems there isn’t a day that passes without big companies playing out their patent disputes in courts round the world. We’ve seen ongoing spats between Google, Apple, Samsung and HTC, [...]

Audi delivers R8 V10 to originator of #wantanR8 hashtag

Audi R8 V10 Twitter

If anyone doubts the power of social media in marketing, they should take a lesson from Audi who have just given the originator of the Twitter hastag #wantanR8 an R8 for the day. The Marketing world is changing fast, with online reporting and social media fast relegating traditional print media to the dustbin of history. And if you [...]

New Audi RS4 Avant (2012 / 2013) caught on video

2012 / 2013 Audi RS4 Avant Spy Video

The 2012 / 2013 Audi RS4 Avant has been caught on video testing at the Nurburgring. But what engine will it get? If you want something that’s very quick but still every day practical; a car non petrolheads will just think is another estate, but those in the know realise is something special, you could do a lot worse [...]

2nd Generation Audi R8 eTron at Frankfurt

2nd Generation Audi R8 eTron at Frankfurt

Audi are to reveal a 2nd generation Audi R8 eTron at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week with 308bhp and four electric motors. We did think that Audi were too busy playing with the electric go-kart that is the Urban Concept to bother with any more eTrons. But we were wrong. The 2nd generation Audi R8 eTron [...]