A favorite genre of many auto fiends is the “sleeper” - a car that looks like grandma’s Mercury but goes like stink. In this day and age of flashy, showy performance - with all the standard body kits, huge spoilers and obnoxious red badging automakers seem to believe belong on performance cars, the sleeper is a dying breed.
For the second year in a row, the Green Car of the Year award, presented at the Los Angeles Auto Show, has gone to a diesel-powered car from the Volkswagen Group
The compact A3 will soon have another engine choice along with the many engines available in the UK. The new low-displacement 1.2 TFSI will join the ranks, providing 105 hp and getting about 43 mpg thanks to the power of forced induction. The 1.2 TFSI engine is completely redesigned, and is very lightweight (only 197 lbs,) which Audi achieved after...
This year Audi will feature the A3 TDI – awarded “Green Car of the Year” by Green Car Journal. Can you tell the direction the auto industry is heading here? Featuring the A3 TDI is a very smart move on Audi’s part, and will likely bring in a lot of buyers. This will also help out the diesel market in general, which will be a positive step, especially in the US market.
Audi is updating their already good navigation system in the A3, TT, and R8. The new nav system plus MMI features a higher, 800×480px resolution displayed on a 6.5-inch screen for improved readability and graphics. Route calculation is now much faster due to an upgraded 600 MHz processor.
Due to high demand in the US for smaller and more fuel efficient engines, Audi says they will be dropping the 3.2-liter V6 from the A3, A4, and TT for the 2010 model year in the States. I happen to like this smooth engine quite a bit, but the numbers show that it might not be worth it. The 2.0T engine offered in the A4 makes only 54 horsepower less power, and gets
The first news was the Audi A3 Convertible that will be unveiled in 2008. The next news about the Audi A3 is its replacement that will debut in 2010. 2010 Audi A3 will hold under its hood two new engines: FSI and TDI Common Rail.
North American Internaitonal Autoshow 2008 - Canadian Venue, Toronto, Ontario. February 15-24. Album 6 of 9. 122 Photos. Vehicles in this album: Audi A8 L, Audi Q7 4.2 Premium, Audi TTS, Audi R8, Audi S5, Audi A5, Audi A3, Audi RS4.
Audi, the inventor of TDI, is about to blaze another trail in the field of engine manufacture with the A3 TDI clubsport quattro, a one-off show car featuring the most extreme incarnation to date of its advanced four-cylinder TDI engine.
Londoners may breathe slightly easier in the knowledge that a specially developed A3 1.9 TDI joins the Audi range this month with extensive revisions that ensure it will fall under the proposed 120g/km CO2 limit permitting exemption from the congestion charge.
The German automaker announced that production for the 2011 Audi Q3 will start in Spain at the Seat site in Martorell. If everything will go according to plan the plant should roll off 80,000 units a year with an initially investment from Audi of around 300 million Euros.
When Audi gets done with their corporate spiel at next year's Geneva Motor Show, it's likely that they'll pull back the curtain and unveil their newest attempt to steal market share from the MINIs and 1-series of the world.
In its effort to meet the 1.5 million cars sold worldwide by 2015, Audi is planning to expand operations in its assembly plant in Brussels, Belgium. It has broken profit and sales records for the past 11 years.
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