Audi may be satisfied with its R8, but at least one artist loves the idea of an R8-inspired RS7 slotted below it. The renderings were provided by Austrian industrial designer Adriano Mudri. The car pulls clear influence from the R8, though it...
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The Audi RS concept seems to be borrowing bits and pieces from everywhere, but the end result is certainly pretty result from Austrian designer Adriano Mudri. Check out more pics on Jalopnik here. Related PostsAudi A1 Sportback Concept Leaks Out...
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The 1984 Audo Quattro is an iconic car, the first to perfect the use of 4 wheel drive, and one that has won many rally races with the now legendary Walter Röhrl behind the wheel, who’s usually known as the best rally driver of all times....
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The new Audi A1 was introduced at the Geneva Auto Show and Audi clearly has big plans for it. They’ve given it a high-profile spokesman in the form of Justin Timberlake and clearly expect it to form a big part of Audi’s sales growth. BMW has the...
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What you’re looking at here is a design study of a new sports car known as the Audi RS7 Concept, penned by an Austrian designer named Adriano Mudri. The Audi RS7 Concept combines many styling cues from the Volkswagen Group including the overall...
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found about 23 hours ago by Arman on
Motorward
So as the new Audi R8 Spyder gets ready to hit the market, the company kicks its marketing campaign in high gear. They have released this test drive video of the car featuring their DTM driver Mattias Ekström behind the wheel. And boy is he having...
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found about 26 hours ago by Wes Siler on
Jalopnik
Incorporating design elements from every vehicle in the VW Group, the Audi RS7 is Austrian designer Adriano Mudri's vision for future Audi products. Probably most successful are the minimal LED...
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found about 23 hours ago by Tony Borroz on
Autopia
A mere 10 years from now Audi expects 5 percent of its sales will be electric vehicles. That’s not the wishful thinking of tree-huggers or even the fanciful projection of some think-tank. It is the bold prediction of Michael Dick, Audi’s...
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found about 26 hours ago by Jonathon Ramsey on
Autoblog
Can we pause for a moment and give it up for Walter Röhrl? Here's a racer whose professional career began in 1973, first person to win the World Rally Championship twice, winner of the Pikes Peak race and the title Rally Driver of the Century in...
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We’re big fans of Audis here at CarThrottle, especially the ones that go fast! The new Audi RS5, introduced at the Geneva Auto Show, definitely falls into that category. The standard A5 is already one of our favorite vehicles that we can’t wait...
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Audi R8 Sport Spy ShotWealthy car enthusiasts that aren’t fully content with the three Audi R8 models already on the market will soon have two additional choices to look at. The more intriguing of the two is an extra sporty version of the R8 that...
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Do we know for sure that this is an S8? Not really, as our shooters never did get a peek under the hood. But this car does have a few signs of possible "S-ness". Note the quad pipes in back and the sizable brake rotors lurking under...
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As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. A £40,000 black Audi Q7 TDI S-Line seized from a criminal gang in the north of Glasgow will now be used as a patrol car by Strathclyde Police, Scotland's largest police force, and one of the biggest in the...
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found 2 days ago by Damon Lavrinc on
Autoblog
We already know that Audi plans to fit the standard R8's 420-hp, 4.2-liter V8 into its all-new Spyder variant early next year, and now comes word that at least one more version of the R8 is in the pipeline and that the R tronic sequential automatic...
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Sure, the R8 is no lame duck, and this is even more so once the sports car has been tuned by ABT Sportsline. The result is a real model athlete, which does not just ooze power, but also doesn't have a single gram of fat on its body. With the limited...
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Audi has released a video of the new 2011 Audi RS5 showing off the beautiful sound its 4.2L V8 makes. The video also includes some footage of the RS5 hitting up the track with its inspiration, the Ur Quattro. Hit the jump for the video. Click here...
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Sadly, this is not a full blown return for Hispano-Suiza, the vaunted Spanish car builder that had a penchant for using airplane engines in street cars (think about that for a while). No, this time around Hispano-Suiza has come back as a coach...
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Hold on to your sassy, feathered Bavarian caps, Audi fans, because the above video shows a lot (of unedited) footage of the new 450-hp RS5 at the racetrack, with a special guest appearance from the Godhead of the Rings, the Ur-Quattro. (Go directly...
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found 3 days ago by Jonathon Ramsey on
Autoblog
In what is currently raw footage but what will soon undoubtedly be slickly produced promotional material, the brutalicious 2011 Audi RS5 growls around a track and on various European roads. For a brief spell it even shares the screen with one of its...
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The Audi A8 is the newest limo on the block and this is the A8 hybrid which aims to be the greenest in the segment. Shown at the Geneva show for the first time, the A8 hybrid’s drivetrain consists of two propulsion units – a 2.0 TFSI internal...
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Carmageddon was hell for makers of premium brands. For all but – Audi. Audi closed out the crisis year 2009 with a profit before tax of €29.8b, reports Automobilwoche [sub]. After tax, it was only €1.3b – so the biggest profiteer was the...
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Rumors have just surfaced that say Audi is working on a successor to their A2 vehicle. This seems fine and dandy but the cool part of the rumor is that this supposed successor will feature an electric drivetrain. Word comes from Audi CEO Rupert...
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A report in the trade journal Automotive News says that Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler will double its spending on development of various green technologies over the next two years. The company plans to spend $1.4 billion in...
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found 3 days ago by Steven J. Ewing on
Autoblog
Seeing the Audi A1 and A1 e-tron concept at this year's Geneva Motor Show provides proof that the quad-ring automaker is putting a much larger focus on its small car offerings. With that in mind, new rumors are cropping up about a possible successor...
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It really all comes down to simple arithmetic. Audi wants to add another subcompact model to its range. It already has the A1 supermini and the A3 compact hatch, so if you subtract 1 from 3, you get 2. Add an 'A' up front and voila; you have the...
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2002 Audi A2The A1 just officially debuted in Geneva last week, and word from Audi indicates that the German automaker will be working on an A2 revival, which will be positioned just above the A1 and below the A3. The small car will be based on...
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All companies like to make a connection between their past and current offerings to try to promote the fact that DNA is passed on to their next generation of products and Audi is no exception to this rule. For the first official film on the RS5...
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Following the A1, Audi is planning another small car to be slotted between the A1 and the A3 – the car is said to be a reincarnation of the A2 small car. “There’s clearly room for another product and another concept between the A3 and A1,”...
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found 4 days ago by Peter Orosz on
Jalopnik
What’s even sadder than the cynical deluge of hybrid supercars is that the only event from last week's Geneva Motor Show covered by the mainstream non-automotive press was Justin Timberlake introducing the Audi A1 at a press conference. Granted, a...
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found 4 days ago by Matt Hardigree on
Jalopnik
The second trailer for Iron Man 2 features the Audi R8 V10 Spyder spotted on the set earlier this year. Also, more Tony Stark quips, Scarlett Johansson and Sam Jackson. Let's call it Aluminum und Iron. [via...
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