Sporty A4 Carries On Audi sales continue to go through the roof with each month seemingly better than the last. One of the reasons for their success is their compact A4 model. Last year the A4 lead all other Audis with over 35,000 sales. Audi redesigned the A4 for 2009, and the 2012 edition is [...]
A Real Contender In the competition for the hearts and minds of German luxury car buyers, the Audi A6 has been the perennial also-ran. The Mercedes E-Class and the BMW 5-Series have outsold the A6 every year by huge margins. However, things could change in 2012—Audi has revamped the A6, and made it a serious [...]
Popular A4 Soldiers On Audi’s best-selling model, the A4, carries over this year with few changes. And while this car can be pricey, its popularity continues to grow. The 2011 A4 is on track to find a home in over 37,000 households this year. That’s an expected increase of 10-percent over 2010. The A4’s look [...]
Audi Gets a Sleek Four-Door Coupe Audi has gotten into the “four-door coupe” business, joining its German rivals, BMW and Mercedes. Designing a sedan that looks like a coupe is no simple task. Often the rear quarter of the car looks bulbous. But this is not he case with the Audi—the A7 Sportback is a [...]
Audi Goes Soft Top With A5 Audi rolled the dice when they designed the new A5 Cabriolet. They equipped it with a conventional ragtop roof, instead of a retractable hardtop, like the one on BMW’s 335i. They may lose points with some potential buyers now, but the honchos at Audi decided that the additional weight [...]
Audi Takes On the BMW X3 The new Audi Q5 faces some fierce competition in the luxury-car marketplace. Established compact crossovers, like the BMW X3 have dominated this segment for years. But I had a chance to put on 600 miles on Q5 over a long weekend, and I think this car is up to [...]
A6 Gets Supercharged Audi redesigned and enlarged its compact A4 sedan for 2009, which brought it closer in size and appearance to its midsize sibling, the Audi A6. But one significant difference between the two has remained, their power plants. Although they both share the 3.2-liter V-6, the midsize A6 also has an optional V-8, [...]
New A4 is Bigger and Better The new Audi A4 and I got off to a shaky start. I tried to play the radio the first time I drove it, and couldn’t find the controls. On most cars, they are right there above the air conditioning knobs on the dash, but not on the A4. [...]
A5 Is A Strong Competitor In Its Own Right “The Audi A5 is the most beautiful car I’ve ever designed,” says Walter de’Silva, head of Volkswagen Group Design. And there is no argument that it is a gorgeous sports coupe. It drew a lot of admiring glances while I had it. My gray test car [...]
Audi Challenges BMW With S5 With the introduction of its high-performance S5 coupe, Audi has announced that it is ready to take on the BMW M3. Like the M3, the S5 offers outstanding power, superb handling and a muscular body. The S5 is the kind of car that turns heads. The week that I had [...]
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