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2008 Audi R8 TDI Le Mans
One red-hot launch vehicle, Audi's R8 TDI Le Mans Concept, brings Audi's turbo direct-injection diesel to the USA. more |
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2009 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI
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. more |
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2009 Audi A4 Avant
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. more |
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2009 Audi RS6 Avant
The devil's new family car. more |
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2007 Audi RS4 - Four Seasons Wrap-up
Twelve months of power, performance, and style. more |
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2009 Audi A4 - A4-midable Competitor
The new Audi A4 takes it to BMW and Mercedes-Benz. It's all grown up, and has grown in nearly every dimension. more |
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Europe's Fastest Wagons: Audi RS4, BMW M5, and Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG
Boz the dog is perhaps the ultimate station wagon road tester. Since he began making a serious dent in my personal finances back in 2004, this trusty but sporadically disobedient Weimaraner has passed opinion on the finer points of the competencies of station more |
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2008 Audi A5 and S5
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 more |
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2008 Audi TT Coupe and Roadster: Is it a Sports Car?
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 more |
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2008 Audi A5 Coupe
Remember the Audi Nuvolari show car? That 2003 concept was design chief Walter de'Silva's first project at Audi; as we now see, it was also a faithful predictor of the new Audi A5, the brand's first full-size coupe since the Audi Coupe Quattro disappeared from more |
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2008 Audi R8 vs. 2008 Ferrari F430 and 2008 Porsche 911
Diving into Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch's tight turn 2, the Porsche 911 Carrera S nips under the Ferrari F430. A silver scimitar suddenly splits the red haze. Porsche and Ferrari are natural foes--always have been, always will be. But will the sports car more |
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2008 Audi TT roadster
Replacing an automotive icon with a model that's equally visionary, charismatic, and unmistakable is surely one of the toughest tricks for any car designer. Case in point: the Audi TT, whose original form was designed by Freeman Thomas and J Mays. At the Los A more |
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2008 Audi R8
It's one of those amazing roads you can't help but come back to: a rhythmic mix of fast and slow sections, first wide open and then tree-lined on both sides, mostly smooth but dotted with patchwork surfaces here and there, a mild yet steady climb from the bott more |
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2007 Ariel Atom
You don't so much drive an Ariel Atom as shotgun it through the landscape. Wind goes up your shorts. Bugs go down your gullet. Gravel, freed from the bonds of gravity by the Atom's passing vacuum, wanders up into your underpants. Faced with the whole of creat more |
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2005 Audi A6 Four Seasons Test
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 more |
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