Filed under: Performance , Europe , Paris Motor Show , Hatchback , Audi 2011 Audi A1 1.4 TFSI – Click above for high-res image gallery As if we needed another reason to salivate over the delicious little Audi A1 . The Four Ring’d One has just announced that it will pull the sheets off of a new, hopped-up version of its tiniest hatch at this year’s Paris Motor Show
Filed under: Convertible , Performance , Paris Motor Show , Audi , Electric , Luxury Audi e-Tron Spyder sketch – Click above for image gallery We aren’t sure of the provenance and we have no information beyond the images, but these could be the first sketches of the oft-rumored Audi e-Tron Spyder that’s supposedly set to debut at the Paris Motor Show . As you’d expect, this convertible creature appears to be based on the design of the e-Tron Concept shown at the Detroit Auto Show this year, not the original concept shown in Frankfurt .
Filed under: Etc. , Audi , Volkswagen , Specialty Audi Autonomous TTS Pikes Peak – Click above for high-res image gallery A helicopter carrying four crew members filming a commercial for Volkswagen / Audi has crashed near the summit of the famed Pikes Peak Highway just west of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County.
Filed under: Europe , Technology , Hatchback , Audi , Electric Audi A1 e-tron – Click above for high-res image gallery Audi has chosen Munich as its launch pad for the company’s new electric vehicle effort. The German manufacturer is planning to roll out 20 of its A1 hatchbacks as part of a research project with the Technical University of Munich. The cars will be powered by an electric motor with the equivalent of around 102 horsepower, which should give the vehicles a top speed of 81 mph
Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Audi Audi TT RS – Click above for high-res image gallery Audi has just announced that it will begin importing the hottest version of its little sports car, the TT-RS , in the third quarter of next year. The product move comes after Audi whipped up a Facebook petition page that gathered in excess of 11,500 signatures in just a month’s time. The move to import the 360-horsepower Porsche Boxster and Mercedes-Benz SLK AMG-fighter isn’t much of a surprise – after all, Audi has been courting the media with test drives for months, and an Audi executive at last week’s launch of the A7 Sportback in Sardinia hinted that a decision was to be revealed in a few days
Filed under: Sedan , Hatchback , Audi , First Drive , Luxury Carrying Off the Five-Door Form in Style 2012 Audi A7 Sportback – Click above for high-res image gallery We don’t normally think of Germans as being shrinking violets, but apparently the country’s national pride has been enduring a long winter of sorts – a decades-old funk from which it’s only now beginning to emerge. So says The New York Times , which notes that the nation’s resurgent patriotism is taking many forms, from an increasing amount of German-language music on the radio to more flag-waving pride and a stable economy that remains the envy of Europe in dark times
Filed under: Spy Photos , Coupe , Performance , Europe , Audi The eagle-eyed crew over at Auto Express has managed to get its hands on a few photos of what may very well turn out to be a more hardcore version of the mighty Audi R8 . Spotted at a gas station near the N
Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Convertible , Coupe , Videos , Paris Motor Show , Audi Mysterious Audi coupe – Click above to watch video after the jump Here’s what we know: Audi was doing something with a disguised and coupe (or cabrio) somewhere in Tyrolean Alps. Here’s what we don’t know: the precise nature of Audi’s activities nor the precise identity of the coupe. It has been surmised that it could be a more production-ready evolution of the Audi e-Tron Concept/R4 shown at the Detroit Auto Show in January, but a better guess might be a convertible version of the same concept