Category: Audi

During a recent Audi RS high-performance automobile testing session at Phillip Island circuit Audi also wheeled out a pair of rip-roaring road-goers – the Audi S8 plus sports sedan and the SQ5 plus luxury sports utility vehicle – for the media to get their teeth into. Sharing the walloping 4.0-litre V8 of the track-tested tearaways, the S8 plus is the flagship of the Audi S range and with 445 kW and 700 Nm (750 Nm on overboost) is the most powerful (and fastest) S model in history. The considerable power… Read more

Audi, the German automobile manufacturer with a huge amount of experience in long distance motor racing – think Le Mans 24-hour – recently rolled out several of its high performance cars at Phillip Island for us to enjoy. On the track were the Audi RS 6 Avant and RS 7 Sportback models, both new to the Audi line-up Down Under. In the wings for a road loop were the Audi S8 plus and Audi SQ5 plus. First up was a chance to put the Avant and Sportback to some harsh… Read more

Like eager children on a school excursion, members of the Australian motoring media milled around. Then instead of piling onto a motor coach, paired-up ‘pupils’ clambered aboard examples of the new Q7, Audi’s latest addition to the large sports utility vehicle market, and literally rode off into the sunset. The early evening destination was Spicer’s Canopy, a spiffy campsite near Cunningham’s Gap, inland from the Gold Coast. The following day’s drive consisted of an extended loop north and east, ending up on the Sunshine Coast. The vehicle in question was… Read more

Audi’s A4 has just entered its fourth generation but if you poke around you’ll see that it’s known as the B9 – the ninth-generation of the four rings’ B-segment offering, stretching back to the early 1970s starting with the first Audi 80, sold here as the Fox. The old car, released way back in 2008 was still selling strongly right up to the death, owing much to its understated good looks and value proposition, helping Audi to a record year in 2015. But underneath it was getting on a bit… Read more

When a brand like Audi decides that it’s time to bring out a supercar, you know things are getting serious. There had been rumblings that the four rings were after a slice of Porsche’s action and rightly felt they were entitled to it. Audi’s motorsport heritage was a pretty good one and, with the benefit of hindsight, its assault on the Le Mans series, endurance and GT3 racing has given it a global profile DTM, the German touring car series, could only dream of doing. Almost a decade ago, the… Read more

Audi’s Q3 wasn’t the first, but it set the standard for the compact premium SUV. While neither too high nor too low, too small or too big, it took Volkswagen’s platform-sharing strategy to provide the better-heeled with a four-ringed player where something like a VW Tiguan (or a Mazda CX-3) just wouldn’t do. With the end in sight for the first-gen Q3, and a pair of new contenders in BMW’s second-gen X1 and Mercedes’ GLA, the final refresh has a lot riding on it. VALUE The all-quattro diesel line up… Read more