Audi News

Audi’s assortment of drivers for its campaign in the 2014 World Endurance Championship has been confirmed, and the lineup includes no less than five world champions and Le Mans winners plus a former Formula One driver. Audi will be fielding two of its 2014-spec R18 e-tron quattro Le Mans...

Plenty of high-end sports cars feature glass panels into the engine bay, letting you glimpse the works of mechanical art beneath. Glass engines though are altogether rarer, for obvious reasons. But that does present a problem when you want to inspect the combustion process a little closer in...

Audi's 2014 Super Bowl ad "Dog Show" features the 2015 A3 sedan.

Daytona is, by most standards, a rather quiet little beach town, superficially a third of a century or more past its prime. But for many Americans, and more than a few Europeans, it’s also a holy place—a point of pilgrimage for the Church of Speed. One such European is Romolo Liebchen...

Audi will reportedly be the first Volkswagen Group brand to introduce a powerful new four-cylinder turbocharged engine, set to debut before the end of the year. The engine, a development of the EA888 unit used in the 2015 Audi S3, 2015 VW GTI and various other VW products, is set to become the most...

The head of Audi quattro Franciscus van Meel has reportedly been replaced after less than two years on the job, despite the performance division expanding its range and generating profits during his tenure. The 46-year-old exec is said to have been moved to a new tech center in Beijing, China at...

Audi’s svelte A7 first hit the scene in 2010 so the vehicle is about due for its mid-cycle update. Right on cue, the first prototypes for the updated car have emerged, revealing some of the new details we can expect. The most obvious updates to the A7 are the new headlights and grille. We can...

Prototypes for Audi’s S1 have been testing for the past four years, which is an unusually long schedule for a vehicle that’s essentially a hotter version of a model already on sale. However, there’s a very good reason why we’re yet to see Audi introduce its S1; the automaker...

A brand new generation of the Audi TT, the compact sports car’s third iteration in fact, is nearing the end of its development, with the new car on track for a debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show in March. We now have a spy video showing a prototype testing at the Nürburgring and on some...

Audi’s third-generation TT sports car is on track for a debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show in March, with the car to arrive in showrooms by the end of the year as a 2015 model. But we already have a fairly good idea as to how it will look--inside and out--thanks to the unveiling of the 2015...

Though it wasn’t on show with the rest of the updated 2015 A8 range at the Detroit Auto Show this week, Audi’s 2015 A8 L Security has also received a round of updates. The A8 L Security is the version of Audi’s flagship sedan built by the automaker’s own armored car division...

We're in the thick of the action-packed new car festival that is the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, and even though muscle and sports car fans have probably fainted from the excitement, there's a lot of other interesting stuff going on, too. Case in point: the Audi Allroad Shooting Brake concept. These...

Following its world debut last year in Frankfurt, the 2015 Audi A8 along with its sporty S8 variant has made an appearance at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show where its specifications for the U.S. market were announced. The update to the 2015 A8 range isn’t a major one but there are some key...

Debuting next week at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show will be the 2015 Audi Q3, the version of the compact crossover we finally get here in the U.S. The Q3 was first shown in 2011 and was promised for local sale soon after, but its arrival was delayed due to regulatory issues that apparently have been...

Audi managed to sell close to 1,575,500 vehicles in 2013, setting a new record for the brand and achieving a 1.5 million unit sales milestone two years ahead of schedule. Audi’s sales success was on the back of strong demand for its latest A3 compact family and its SUV and crossover range...

Audi will bring in-car 4G LTE access to U.S. customers through AT&T.

When Audi first showed us its Sport quattro concept at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show last September, sources suggested to us that the concept hinted at styling cues, design forms, and features that are being considered for Audi’s next generation of cars. The concept, after all, sits on a...

The 2014 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona is coming up sooner than you'd think, and with it, the merged American Le Mans Series and Grand Am racing now known as the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Audi will be among the major manufacturers contending for the inaugural title, bringing a total of four...

If there's one thing that spoils the experience of buying a decade-old luxury vehicle at a fraction of its original price, it's the hilariously outdated infotainment and navigation systems they were lumbered with. Infotainment technology has come along so quickly in recent years that OEM systems...

Audi is set to debut an evolved version of its Sport quattro plug-in hybrid sports car concept at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. After debuting in a bright yellow hue at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show last September, Audi’s Sport quattro concept has since adopted a...