Tag Archives: Audi

German metal : Audi RS5

Sometimes, people want odd, yet practical things. There are people who do not want to buy a Prius, just because it’s too cheap and too slow (0-100 in 4 days), or an Aventador because it’s too fast and too heavy on your wallet to buy and maintain. So they buy an M3.

Audi seems to have an understood this problem too, and ta-da! Here is the new RS5. Butch looks, Wide stance, a powerful engine, effortless drive and classy interiors. Read more

Audi back to school : Quattro is back

Heard of “Quattro”?

No, I am not talking of Audi’s AWD, but a car which revolutionized Audi’s technology and the first car to implement Audi’s AWD system. To avoid confusion, the AWD system is referred with “q” (quattro).

Audi released the original Quattro in 1980, making it both the first car to feature Audi’s quattro; All Wheel Drive system (hence its name) and the first to mate quattro with a turbocharged engine. The engine was a 2.1 L, single overhead Read more

This tiny SUV is not that bad : Audi Q3

CAR: Looking at this, some might think that the engineers at Audi went to the photocopier with the Q5 and did a reduction copy of it! Well, the story is quite different from that.

This car is to Audi, like the X1 is to BMW. The Audi Q3 is the supposed competitor to the BMW X1 here in India. And the success of X1 may have driven Audi’s thought of launching this Mini SUV here. Also the Q3 will be … Read more