Audi is showing off its high-tech future with a sophisticated new interior that sports responsive screens that recognize gestures like a tablet or smartphone. The interior, described as being the interior to the quattro e-tron concept that was shown off last year, sports a large AMOLED (active...
Audi has chosen Thunderhill Raceway Park as its home base which will be used to test self-driving cars. Audi along with partner Electronic Research Lab will use the track to push self-driving cars to their limits so that engineers will have a better understanding of how sudden and extreme...
Sometimes, when we’re sitting around the offices, we come up with answers to questions no ever asked. Questions like what if automakers were popular musicians? As absurd and useless this endeavour may seem, there are a lot of historic similarities between popular musical artists and...
The BMW 3 Series is an automotive legend. In human terms, it’s akin to a mashup of Muhammad Ali and Dr. Stephen Hawking; it punches like a prizefighter that’s also the smartest kid in class. This unique blend of ferocity and finesse is just part of the reason it’s been so successful over...
Station wagons are a rare breed these days and the crossover craze is squarely to blame for their slow-motion demise. Car-based utility vehicles have largely taken over the market once dominated by these useful vehicles. Fortunately, the old “Family Truckster” hasn’t completely been...
It’s that time again. Time to give our thanks to all the automotive manufacturers for yet another wild and crazy year. Convertible Range Rovers, 8200 rpm muscle cars and a further infestation of SUV coupes. Yup, 2015 has seen it all. We laughed, we cried, we sucked up all the dynamism,...
The chief of Volkswagen’s design department and the man who designed the Audi R8, Walter de Silva, is leaving the company. Sources tell that de Silva, 64, is leaving because of an overhaul in the automaker’s organizational structure. Nothing was mentioned about the diesel scandal...
Audi is issuing a stop-sale on several products following an investigation regarding the 3.0-liter six-cylinder diesel engines used in Volkswagen Auto Group vehicles. The decision is fuelled by the concern that these motors also use a “defeat device”, which is not compliant with...
As if the 2016 Audi RS7 wasn’t monstrous enough, the luxury sportback now has a special model that gets significant performance upgrades. Although it is powered by the same twin-turbo 4.0L TFSI V8, horsepower has been boosted over the base RS model by 45 horsepower for a total of 605 hp....