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Newswheel staff :: 29 April 2008 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Audi, Audi Q5
There was only so long that Audi was going to allow BMW’s X3 to coin it in the mid-sized premium SUV niche. Actually, Audi has been slow to catch on to the whole SUV game. It allowed the original BMW X5 to go uncontested for pretty much an entire model generation before releasing the monstrous Q7. The new Q5, officially unveiled this week and aimed squarely at the X3, is likewise hardly an early-doors entrant. Still, it has probably arrived just in time - popular opinion appears to be turning nasty on big beasts like the Q7…
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Newswheel staff :: 30 August 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Audi, Audi A4, Europe & UK
OK, the A4 is the meat and potatoes of the Audi’s saloon-car range. And
the existing A4 has been doing roaring business. So, you can forgive
Audi up to a point for hedging its stylistic bets with the all-new A4, revealed for
the first time today. But it really is spectacularly unadventurous…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 August 2007 :: Filed under SUV, Audi, Audi Q7
Love it or loathe it, you’re going to have to lump it. Audi has confirmed that a production version of the Q7 V12 TDI is scheduled to hit showrooms in the second half of ’08. Lest you have forgotten, we’re talking 500+ blown diesel ponies and around 737lb/ft of twistage…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 August 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi A5
The jury is still out on whether the new A5 coupe is too understated for its own good. But in the meantime, Audi is fleshing out the range with a few cheaper engine options in the form of a 2.7-litre turbo diesel and a 3.2-litre petrol V6…
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Newswheel staff :: 15 May 2007 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Hatchback, Audi, Audi A5, Europe & UK, US
The A5 and S5 coupes were just the beginning, folks. According to reports, Audi is tooling up to release a wide range of variants based on its new coupe, including an inevitable uber-hot RS5, a cabriolet and an intriguing shooting brake concoction…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 February 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi A5, Europe & UK, US
Better late than never, eh? After seemingly decades of allowing BMW to coin it courtesy of the 3 Series in the compact premium coupé market, Audi has finally produced a competitor. The first official images of the new A5 coupé and its S5 high performance sibling have been leaked, apparently from Audi’s own website…
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Newswheel staff :: 28 November 2006 :: Filed under Audi, Bugatti, Porsche, Volkswagen, Europe & UK, US
What to make of the Volkswagen Group’s current predicament? Well, it’s certainly interesting times, what with head honcho Bernd Pischetsrieder recently given the chop, a business model currently buckling under the strain of fratricidal brand proliferation and Porsche slowly but surely sinking in its claws. Indeed, it’s the latter that’s at the centre of the latest news concerning the future of the most elevated badge in the VW empire. Reportedly, Bugatti’s plans for a new entry level model have been torched by Porsche…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 November 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Europe & UK
Not exactly. For months, rumours have been circulating regarding a possible tag team twixt Audi and Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM. The general gist was a light weight sports car powered by the VW group’s blown four-pot and in many regards picking up where VW’s stillborn EcoRacer left off. More recently, KTM’s head honcho, Stefan Pierer, dished a few official details on the project and now further factoids are appearing on the web…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 October 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi A5, Audi Nuvolari, Europe & UK, US
When it comes to fearlessly transforming outrageous concept cars into production reality, Audi is the undisputed world heavyweight champ. For proof, look no further than the original TT coupé of 1998 or the recently revealed and painfully sublime R8 mid-engined super car. It’s surprising, therefore, to discover that the upcoming A5 coupé is very definitely not a dead ringer for the Nuvolari concept of 2003. In fact, the development mule caught testing at the Nurburgring by tree-dwelling spy photographer Hans G. Lehmann betrays an utterly conventional, if admittedly elegant coupé shell…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 October 2006 :: Filed under Four wheel drive, Roadster, Audi, Audi TT, Europe & UK, US
Remember the rave reception the updated TT coupe was buried beneath earlier this year? Well, batten down the hatches and prep yourself for a veritable flood of hyperbole. The topless TT has landed…
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Newswheel staff :: 05 October 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
Just can’t get enough of Audi’s natty new R8 mid-engine sportster? Well, allow us to further fill your boots. Along with a pair of fully built R8s, Audi also had a cut-away car with the full beauty of the aluminium space frame construction on display. Meanwhile, a few more details of Audi’s new flagship ubercar are creeping in. For starters, UK pricing will hit the £76,000 mark, pegging the R8 at a few grand more than Porsche’s 911 Carrera 4 (yours for around £72k). What’s more, a V10 model using the Gallardo’s 500bhp lump is expected to appear in 2008…
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Newswheel staff :: 28 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
It’s a dead ringer for the Le Mans concept. It’s closely related to the Lamborghini Gallardo. And it’s powered by a V8 lump pinched from the RS4 saloon. In short, there’s nothing remotely surprising about it. But it’s still the no-contest star of the Paris show. Audi unsheathed the new R8 mid-engined sportster today and suffice to say the car is pure class from bumper to bumper…
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Newswheel staff :: 19 September 2006 :: Filed under Audi, Europe & UK
It’s the ultimate reward for our finely honed sense of badge snobbery. Audi has begun work on a £30 million, seven-story showroom on the outskirts of London. The 17,667 square metre building is being erected on the Great West Road in Middlesex and will be the largest Audi Centre on the planet…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 September 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Audi, Audi Q7, Europe & UK
It’s exactly what the world has been waiting for. A five-metre, 2.5-tonne SUV powered by a V12 production diesel engine pumping out precisely 493bhp and 737lb/ft. This, friends, is the new Audi Q7 V12 TDI…
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Newswheel staff :: 07 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi TT, Europe & UK
The body-kitted S-Line is as hot as the new Audi TT is going to get. According to a recent report, Audi has ruled out an ultra high performance TT to avoid undermining the upcoming R8 mid-engined supercar.
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Newswheel staff :: 31 August 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi TT, Europe & UK
New bumpers front and rear and RS4-aping alloys. We give you Audi’s S-Line styling and (we presume) chassis package for the new TT coupe. Meanwhile, rumours of a high performance TT variant approach critical mass…
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Newswheel staff :: 01 August 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, Audi, Audi A3, Europe & UK, US
It’s a sign of the times that 262bhp from a turbo-charged, three-door hatchback ain’t exactly awe inspiring. But then the new Audi S3, revealed today, has been a long time coming…
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Newswheel staff :: 12 July 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi TT, Europe & UK
With this year’s 24 Heures du Mans already in the bag thanks to the revolutionary diesel-powered R10 racer, Audi is planning to cash in on its competition success with an oil-burning version of the new TT coupe. According to Wolfgang Hatz, Audi’s engine and transmission head honcho, a diesel version of the original TT was developed two years ago but was canned in favour of an oil burning variant of the second generation coupe…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 June 2006 :: Filed under Audi, Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen, Europe & UK
Of all the robot-controlled manual gearboxes, VW’s DSG dual-clutch box is by far the finest. Thanks to a pair of clutches (one clutch for odd-numbered gears and one for even gears) DSG offers the kind of smooth and seamless gear changes that other paddle-flipping boxes can only dream of. And now Wolfgang Bernhard, VW’s product bigwig, has announced that the DSG box will replace conventional torque-converter automatic gearboxes on all VW group cars with transverse engine installations within five years…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 June 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi TT, Europe & UK, US
A bog standard, rebodied Golf was what we were expecting. A hybrid
steel and aluminium superstructure with carefully optimised weight
distribution was what we got. Yup, when Audi first
dished the deets on the second-gen TT it was obvious the Ingolstadt outfit was
serious about making
it a car that real driving enthusiasts, and not just
poseurs in
Pimlico, could aspire to own…unlike the seriously stodgy Golf
IV-derived
original TT. And so it has proven, according to the first road tests of
the new
TT. The UK’s
Autocar mag reckons the latest TT is a potential Cayman killer, while
the motoring
journalist currently known as Clarkson is all in a tizz about the car’s
“crackle
and fizz.”
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