Thursday, 15 October 2009

8 Audi Car Photos - Past and Present

A little change of direction for this post - let's just sit back and take the time to enjoy some images of Audi's past and present.



The classic 'four rings' grill we all know and love



The original Audi TT Nose - design classic


The latest TT body style - maintains the character of the original


The versatile and popular A4 estate


The S8 - Great barge made famous by the car chase through Paris in Ronin.......




The good old Audi 100 - we still hold a candle for this model
If there's any more images of Audi cars that you like please point us in the right direction!

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Audi to build e-Tron Electric Sports Car

High-powered clean energy vehicles seemed to be the big story of this years Frankfurt Motor Show. Mercedes (gullwing), BMW (Vision EfficientDynamics) (and the already established Tesla) both announced models based on new technology.

Audi were never going to be left behind their competitors and themselves announced their e-Tron electric sports car concept. The specs on this car are quite amazing for an electric vehicle:

  • Lithium-ion battery providing useable energy content of 42.4 kilowatt hours
  • A range of approximately 248KM.
  • Four motors - Producing 230 kW (313 hp) and 4,500 Nm (3,319.03 lb-ft) of torque
  • 0 to 62.4mph - 4.8 seconds

You can read more @autopia over on Wired.com and from the official Audi e-Tron webpage.



What's most exciting about all this is that today Audi has confirmed that it is putting this car into production - Johan de Nysschen, Audi America President has said that he expects to see running examples in around 2 years time! All very exciting im sure you'll agree, it will certainly be interesting to see how close Audi will remain to it's original concept.

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Audi A5 Sportback - Do you like it?

In our humble opinion, the A5 Coupe is one of the most elegant and complete sports coupes on the market, a class act. This new A5 Sportback is really splitting opinion however - we really can't make our mind up. From certain angles it has presence and appeal whilst from others (the side profile) it looks a bit like a Citroen! What do you reckon?

Here's some videos that feature a closer look:






Friday, 11 September 2009

The New 2009 Audi S4

Have you seen the new 2009 Audi S4?
You Have Now!


Once again the Audi design team have struck gold. This new S4 version brings the mature business type look and gels it in nicely to make this car fast sleek and mature all at the same time. Tremendous.