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Audi likely to delay early 2009 decision on US production
Over the past year, Volkswagen and Audi have set some remarkably aggressive goals for the US market, including the pronouncement that Audi would double its sales in the States to 200,000 units by 2015. Audi has fared well in 2008, even managing a slight sales increase in October while virtually every other automaker saw double-digit [...]
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PPI unleashes Razor GTR in Essen
The GT3-spec LMS racecar wasn’t the only Audi R8 to grace the show floor in Essen. PPI Design brought their latest version of the Audi supercar dubbed the Razor GTR. The standard version of the Razor made its debut at the show last year, featuring an additional 40 horsepower, 19-inch wheels, custom leather interior, and [...]
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Audi TT-RS headed to Geneva Motor Show
Audi-philes have even more reason to rejoice now that news comes in of an imminent TT-RS launch next March at the Geneva Motor Show. The standard-fare TT offers plenty of punch, and the TT-S spices things up a bit with a high-pressure version of Audi/VW’s 2.0L forced-induction four banger. Sometimes, way too much is, ya [...]
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GT3-spec Audi R8 LMS formally unveiled at Essen
The Essen Motor Show is now underway, and one of the bigger manufacturer unveilings was Audi’s official presentation of the R8 LMS, the new GT3-spec racing car aimed at privateer teams. It’s seen as one of Audi’s so-called “three pillars” of motorsport. The automaker will not field a factory effort in the car, but it’s [...]
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Audi R15 TDI to debut at Sebring in March, attack Le Mans in June
The Audi R10 TDI is dead. Long live the R15. That’s the moniker given to the next-generation Le Mans prototype set to wear the interlocking rings. The car will make its race debut in March at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and by the time the 24 Hours of Le Mans rolls around in June, [...]
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Audi R8 GT3 will have coming out party in Essen
Audi has created an R8 that looks like it would rather kill things than win races, but knowing Audi it will probably just stick to winning. The customer-team specific R8 GT3 will be officially unveiled at the Essen Motor Show, which begins November 28. The car gets more than 500 horsepower going entirely to its [...]
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Mercury Cougar transformed into convincing Audi R8
The seventh-generation of the Mercury Cougar broke with tradition, switching from Detroit’s classic front-engine, rear-wheel drive architecture to the more common front-engine, front-wheel drive design. Its styling was also considered pretty radical for the times, with swoopy curves replacing its predecessor’s formal roof lines. We’d wager that the last Cougar’s designers would never have believed [...]
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LA 2008: 2009 Audi Q5 makes its North American debut
Although we’ve already seen the Audi Q5 in a variety of forms after its initial unveiling in Beijing this past July, the four-ringers decided to finally show off their cute ‘ute in North America for the first time at the LA Auto Show. The compact(ish) CUV is packing the award-winning 2.0-liter TFSI gasoline engine putting [...]
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Makes sense: Audi S5 to replace V8 with supercharged V6
If you didn’t see this coming, we recommend a trip to the optometrist. Audi is about to swap the V8 engine in the S5 with the same supercharged V6 going into the new S4 sedan. Inside Line is reporting that the dulcet-but-dated 4.2L V8 is on the way out. The new 329-hp supercharged V6 engine [...]
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Spy Shots: Audi R8 GT3 caught lapping the ‘Ring
Take one Audi R8, add a pinch of Satan’s dandruff (it’s potent stuff) and you get this: the R8 GT3. Spy photographers have caught this racing version of Audi’s R8 supercar, which itself is named after the very successful diesel-powered R8 LeMans racer, circling the famed Nurburgring in Germany. As you can see in our [...]
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