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SEMA 2010: Stasis R8 V10 Spyder and Autonomous Audi TTS say hello to Vegas

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.


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Wood-bladed Audi R8 makes us laugh, cry

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..


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SEMA 2010: Stasis holds its own with Signature Series S4 and S5

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


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SEMA 2010: Stasis holds its own with Signature Series S4 and S5

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



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Audi’s electric e-tron to get artificial sound

Filed under: Technology , Audi , Electric Audi e-tron concept – Click above for high-res image gallery When cruising at 15.53 miles per hour or slower, an electric car runs virtually silent. Once over that speed, road noise and air moving over the car begin to become prevalent and the car can be “heard” as it travels down the road. That silent running is an intriguing part of the electric car world, but it’s problematic, mostly because those speeds are generally reserved for traffic-clogged cities, parking lots and other areas where pedestrian foot traffic meets automotive.



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Audi shows off wireless charger technology at SEMA

Filed under: SEMA Show , Technology , Audi , Luxury Audi Electronics Research Lab, Qualcomm Incorporated and Peiker have jointly announced a new wireless charging technology that will be made available to both existing and future Audi customers.



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Report: Israel orders million-dollar armored Audi A8

Filed under: Sedan , Government/Legal , Audi , Police/Emergency , Specialty , Middle East 2011 Audi A8L – Click above for high-res image gallery The President of the United States may be the highest target for assassination in the world – hence Cadillac One , his custom, leather-lined tank – but there’s no shortage of people in the Middle East who’d bite that the opportunity to take a shot at the Prime Minister of Israel. (The recently commemorated assassination of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is evidence enough.) It comes as no surprise that the Shin-Bet – Israel’s national domestic preventative security force – has ordered a new armored limousine to transport the country’s head of government