2011 Chevrolet Volt pre-production prototype, January 2010
Audi USA president Johan De Nysschen gained infamy late last year for remarking that the plug-in electric hybrid 2011 Chevrolet Volt is a “car for idiots.” Vindication of his hatred of electricity–Audi’s own all-electric e-tron sports car concept notwithstanding–came last week in the form of an electrical fire above [...]
2009 Audi Design Challenge Entries eOra and eSpira
December’s L.A. Auto Show is only a few weeks away, and carmakers from around the world are gearing up for the event, which promises to be a bit livelier than last year’s rather somber proceedings. During the show, the Los Angeles Design Challenge competition will be held, showing [...]
MIT and Audi’s AIDA robot driving assistant
The idea of conveying information to humans in a compact, effective way in a short time has long been a challenge for the computer industry. As computers play more and more central roles in our cars, that problem becomes one central to daily driving as well.
It’s compounded by the [...]
2011 Audi A1 spy shots
Audi’s new A1 premium compact is expected to hit showrooms in late 2010 as a 2011 model but today we have the first spy shots of actual prototypes taken as the car was undergoing testing in Germany. Aimed squarely at other upmarket compact cars, namely the Mini Cooper, the new [...]
2010 Audi TT
As fuel economy rules tighten, sales stagnate or grow slowly and carmakers seeks ways to deliver more for less, some re-shuffling of products is inevitable. At Audi, that means cutting V-6 engines and (mostly) replacing them with turbo four-cylinders, including in the 2010 Audi TT.
The 3.2-liter V-6 is completely gone from the TT [...]
2009 Audi R8 ePerformance preview
Audi currently sells two versions of its R8 supercar, the original 4.2-liter V-8 model and the recently revealed 5.2-liter V-10 version, but there are several more versions in the works, two of which may be on display at next month’s Frankfurt Auto Show. The two new versions are the R8 Spyder [...]
Porsche Volkswagen Merger
In late July Porsche announced Wendelin Wiedeking would be leaving his position as the company’s CEO to be replaced by Michael Macht, clearing the way for the supervisory board at Volkswagen to lay the foundation for an integrated company with Porsche under VW leadership. Yesterday reports broke that the Auto Union name could [...]
2010 Audi S4 Sedan
Price cuts are the name of the game this year as carmakers fight to keep or gain market share in a highly compressed sales atmosphere. Audi in particular is fighting hard to remain competitive, today releasing pricing for the 2010 S4, A5 Cabrio and S5 Cabrio.
The S4 gets a major price drop, [...]
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