New Audi Cars

Let's get the bad news out of the way first: The Audi A3 3.2 S line Quattro is expensive-really expensive-and it suffers from a slightly harsh ride. OK, now let's talk about the good news, because there's plenty.

The 2009 Audi A4 Avant is a blast to drive and offers significant changes in its fifth generation. Better weight distribution and a rear-biased Quattro system are high on the list of changes.

Chaos reigns. It's Sunday afternoon on the roads east of Verona in the north of Italy. Muddied four-by-fours lean drunkenly around the tight curves on these high hills. Dense packs of sport bikes fizz past in 13,000-rpm eruptions, diving onto their forks as ye

A little more than a year ago, an oyster gray metallic Audi A6 nosed its way into our Four Seasons fleet. And we don't use the word nose loosely, because the first thing we noticed about the A6 was its front end and the gaping maw of its grille. We've applaude

The Same but Different. The Volkswagen Phaeton W12 and the Audi A8L 6.0 share the same engine, but they have little else in common.

SUVs aren't dead yet. The Q7 3.0 TDI hasn't been rated by the EPA, but Audi claims that the U.S.-spec model should return at least 25 mpg on the highway and travel about 600 miles between fill-ups.

Audi's engineering nerds do their best to build something just for fun.

A big engine in a mid-size car--it's been proven to make our glands swell and our mouths water at least since Pontiac stuffed a 389-cubic-inch V-8 into the 1964 Tempest. Today, the German premium brands are its most fervent practitioners, putting tarmac-peelin

Dsseldorf, Germany Before explaining the visual elements that distinguish the new Audi S8 from the A8, Filip Brabec, Audi product planning manager in the United States, observes, "Germans like things understated. Americans want flash." His assertion is that,

There's been a bit of buzz among journalists lately that the second-generation Audi TT might finally be a true sports car. So when Audi offered to let us drive the TT on some of Northern California's mind-blowing twisty roads, we went along to see if the rumor