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Paul Rivera takes us on a tour of Audi unveiling several new concepts at SEMA, including their Pikes Peak TTS, 408 Hp Q5 3.0T, and the Supercharged 711 Hp V10 R8.

Filed under: LA Auto Show , Hybrid , Technology , Crossover , Audi , Luxury Audi Q5 Hybrid previewed – Click above to watch the video after the jump Audi has big plans for this year’s LA Auto Show . The company plans to unveil an all-new hybrid version of its Q5 , and a couple of videos of the machine have already made their way onto the internet. From what we can tell, power comes courtesy of a 208 horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine coupled to a 44 horsepower electric motor

Filed under: Sedan , Plants/Manufacturing , Audi , Luxury The car under the sheet in is the next Audi A6 , scheduled to go into production later this year at Audi ‘s Neckarsulum plant. How do we know that?

Filed under: Motorsports , Audi , Porsche , Volkswagen , Racing Rumors had been swirling about Volkswagen taking interest in putting together an F1 program. The German automaker would either supply engines , or perhaps Porsche would be re-entering the Formula 1 fold

Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Technology , Audi , Specialty , Luxury Stasis Audi R8 – Click above for high-res image gallery What happens when tuners cast eyes on the Audi R8 is symptomatic of the basic and inherent awesomeness of the R8 proposition, both design- and driving-wise. See, there isn’t much that happens on any tuned Audi R8 – all of them look like Audi R8s, maybe with a little more carbon fiber and a new set of wheels. There is simply nothing else to be done to it that could make it better, or, at least, we haven’t seen it, and so almost all hyped R8s are known by their rims.

Filed under: Coupe , Etc. , Audi The Audi R8 ‘s won a lot of admiration for its avant-garde styling, and those side blades are perhaps the supercar’s most interesting styling feature. One owner, however, evidently wasn’t satisfied with the carbon-fiber or aluminum finish, so he came up with a different approach that’s considerably more..

Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Audi , Luxury Stasis S5 – Click above for high-res image gallery This may be Audi ‘s first year at SEMA , but that doesn’t mean other tuning houses haven’t worked up some four-ringed hotness just for the Vegas show. Stasis, for example, shows off its Signature Series S4 and S5 which get by with ‘just’ 410 horsepower and 370 pound-feet of torque from their supercharged V6s, otherwise normally rated at 333 hp and 344 lb-ft. Stasis says the 25 percent boost in power comes from nothing more than an ECU tune and its own free-flow exhaust that uses “cross flow pulse scavenging technology.” The wheels are pulled from the Stasis well, either 20-inches of lightweight, cast spokes or the same diameter in ultra-lightweight forged spokes

Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Audi , Luxury Stasis S5 – Click above for high-res image gallery This may be Audi ‘s first year at SEMA , but that doesn’t mean other tuning houses haven’t worked up some four-ringed hotness just for the Vegas show. Stasis, for example, shows off its Signature Series S4 and S5 which get by with ‘just’ 410 horsepower and 370 pound-feet of torque from their supercharged V6s, otherwise normally rated at 333 hp and 344 lb-ft