The Audi driving experience is expanding its portfolio by offering an opportunity that is unique in the world: effective immediately, Audi customers with sporting ambitions can book exclusive racing commitments with the Audi R8 LMS. Audi is making its Le Mans-winning team available for this purpose.
"For the first time, the Audi race experience offers customers [...]
The A4 Allroad is, on the face of it, something of a conundrum. A high-riding executive estate car, with the extra ground clearance built in to allow it to go off-road, it has to be an idea with limited appeal. However, Audi hasn’t become arguably the fastest-growing carmaker in the last decade by not [...]
Within the next few months VfL Wolfsburg and FC Bayern München will meet for a sporting duel in Wolfsburg. For a change, the teams will not only be playing for victory but, first and foremost, for a good cause: All the proceeds of the friendship match will go to the “We want to help – [...]
In 2010, the DTM, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the customer sport program with the Audi R8 LMS will again be the three cornerstones of AUDI AG’s motorsport commitment. By participating in the inaugural “Le Mans Intercontinental Cup” Audi has opted for a new, forward-thinking racing series in which alternative drive concepts will [...]
The latest version of the common rail diesel A3 with engine start-stop technology has become the most efficient and economical option at its level in the sector.
The ongoing Audi crackdown on emissions has yielded another efficiency breakthrough within the A3 range, this time for the 140PS 2.0-litre TDI models which this month become the cleanest [...]
Audi is celebrating another phenomenally successful season in motorsport, an achievement which has even greater poignancy in this, the Centenary year for the Vorsprung durch Technik brand.
Audi developed three race cars for the 2009 season: The €262,000 R8 LMS, the first dedicated Audi ‘customer’ sports car developed for international GT3 motorsport, the R15 TDI, notable [...]
Befitting its 100th anniversary, Audi has written another chapter of motorsport history. The brand is the first ever car manufacturer to achieve a title hat-trick in the prestigious international touring car racing series: After 2007 and 2008, Audi has clinched the coveted trophy for the third consecutive time.
In the thrilling finale at the Hockenheimring in [...]
The average new car CO2 fell by 5.5% in the first nine months of 2009 with Toyota being the first manufacturer to meet the EU target figure. The average for the Year to Date is 150.6 g/km; that’s a record 8.8 g/km less than a year ago.
The current rate of improvement would enable the car [...]
The new R8 made its UK debut at the new West London Audi shortly before ordering opens in November 2009.
Featuring a fully automatic lightweight fabric hood and based on the 525PS, 5.2-litre FSI model, the new open-air R8 will be available to order in the UK from November 2009 in six-speed manual and six-speed R [...]
The Audi A8 is a powerful and elegant looking car, but if you are going to describe this vehicle in a word, it would be luxurious. Audi has tried to create a machine that pairs, power with comfort, in a saloon car and from our test we would agree, any senior executive would be [...]