Audi News

Virtual Reality is, well, pretty much here right now. You can buy an Oculus. There's a headset that comes with a Samsung phone. If you wander the halls at the next Consumer Electronics Show, you'll be surrounded by a sea of developers creating worlds for virtual reality exploration. Audi is getting...

The Formula E electric car racing series is starting to gain traction among the major automakers. Audi on Friday confirmed it will have a factory team ready to race in season four of Formula E starting in late 2017, joining other automakers DS, Faraday Future, Jaguar, Mahindra, NextEV, Renault and...

Audi is celebrating a milestone. The company has been cranking out 5-cylinder engines for the last 40 years. Now the automaker is eager to look back and revisit the four-ringed history filled with five screaming cylinders. I can't blame them as it's been a pretty wonderful period of time filled...

Audi’s A3 range receives some updates for the 2017 model year including revised styling and new technology in the cabin. The last of the updated A3 models to be announced is the A3 e-tron Sportback. The car is the only model in the A3 range offered with a hatchback body and parking one on...

The latest-generation Audi R8 is essentially a gentlemen's Lamborghini Huracán. It's packing the same V-10 engine, and the four-ringed beast makes 610 horsepower and 413 pound-feet of torque. It's fast. It's beautiful. It's fantastic. For some, however, it's not fast or fantastic enough, and...

Audi is finally bringing one of its Ultra models to the United States. The label represents the most fuel-efficient offering in the range and was first applied on a diesel-powered A3 in 2013. In the U.S., Audi’s first Ultra model will be a member of the 2017 A4 range and is estimated to...

Audi is set to become the first automaker with vehicle-to-object (V2X) communication technology available in its cars. V2X enables cars to communicate with surrounding infrastructure and is a fundamental element towards the implementation of fully autonomous cars. In some Audi models going on sale...

Audi has just updated its A3 range of compact sedans, hatchbacks and convertibles. The updates, which are being introduced for the 2017 model year, affect the sporty S3 models as well. They include styling tweaks, a digital instrument cluster, updated menus for the infotainment system, and new...

Audi’s entry-level model in the United States, the A3, receives some significant updates for the 2017 model year. The current-generation A3 still seems like it only arrived yesterday, but the car actually made its debut overseas in 2012 and is now at the midway point in its life...

Recovering electrical energy from braking is common in hybrids and electric cars, but brake force isn't the only energy that can be harvested while a car is on the move. We've already written about thermoelectric technology, which recovers energy from hot surfaces such as those of the exhaust, and...

Audi fans lamenting the automaker’s decision not to bring over the svelte A4 Avant wagon can take solace in the knowledge the related A4 Allroad is coming here. The small, luxury softroader made its world debut at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show in January and will land in showrooms this fall. It...

The Volkswagen Group is committed to launching as many as 30 electric cars by the end of 2025. Many of these will be sold under the Audi brand, which will have its first electric car on sale in 2018, in this case a mid-size SUV that many, including us, expect to be called a Q6 e-tron. Once the SUV...

Volkswagen's proposed fix for roughly 85,000 illegally polluting 3.0-liter diesel engines isn't good enough, a California Air Resources Board letter said Wednesday. The air quality regulators rejected VW's plan and said the proposals were "incomplete, substantially deficient, and fall far short of...

Audi’s RS 3 has been off limits for the United States for a long time, but that’s set to change with the arrival of a new sedan variant on these shores in approximately one year’s time. Audi has already shown the car to its dealers, and as of this week the German automaker has...

Audi has just updated its A3 range but noticeably missing is the updated version of the RS 3 Sportback. That’s because Audi is holding off on its updated RS 3 Sportback until development of a new RS 3 sedan is complete. The new sports sedan is currently testing at the Nürburgring, as...

Lawyers for Volkswagen told a California court Thursday that the automaker may be able to fix illegally polluting cars and SUVs equipped with its 3.0-liter V-6 turbodiesel engine. Owners of the affected cars—which include Volkwagen Touareg SUVs; Audi A6, A7, A8, Q5, and Q7 sedans and SUVs;...

Audi's A4 brings home the bacon for its U.S. sales arm, but there's no denying the stylish spin-offs that give the compact-car family its panache: the Audi A5 and S5. These Audi twins vie for attention at the dinner table. Between bites, the sleek A5 catches up on the #RichKidsOfInstagram hashtag...

Audi was a pioneer of the dual-clutch transmission, having offered it in its original TT sports car as far back as the early 2000s. DCTs combine lightning-fast gear changes with the convenience of an automatic and fuel economy of a conventional manual transmission, so they quickly became popular...

During a rainy practice session ahead of this weekend's 24 Hours of Le Mans, an Audi R8 safety car dramatically sped around the track but was caught on camera in the midst of an epic, apparently unintentional, drift. The R8 was said to be piloted by Yannick Dalmas, a four-time Le Mans champion, but...

Blasting the Mulsanne Straight at 200 mph in an LMP1 car must be a hugely thrilling experience, on par with the first bite of candied bacon or wrestling a bear. I've only heard. Wetting yourself? That's not awesome. Anyone who's ever endurance raced will tell you that it's an...