Tag: audi
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Mercedes Wants VW In Formula 1 And Will Make Compromises To Make It Happen
Mercedes would agree to simplified engine set-ups from 2026 in order to attract Volkswagen to the Formula 1 grid. The statement came from Mercedes F1 boss, Toto Wolff, on the weekend that a crucial meeting took place surrounding new engine regs. The discussion involved members of F1 Management, FIA Officials, and representatives from existing and…
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RAM Takes Out Top Honors In J.D. Power’s Initial Quality Study
J.D. Power has just published its annual U.S. Initial Quality Study and for the first time, Ram took out top honors. The study measures the number of problems experienced per 100 vehicles (PP100) during the first 90 days of ownership. This year’s study surveyed 110,827 owners of 2021 model year vehicles. A lower score is…
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FC Bayern Players Get Keys To New E-Tron GT And RS E-Tron GT
Playing and working for a prestigious football club like FC Bayern Munich certainly has its perks and recently, players and officials were handed over the keys to various e-tron GT and RS e-tron GT models to use as their new company cars. Audi has a long-standing partnership with the club and every year, provides its…
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Luxe car companies go electric together
Arch-rivals of yore are now frenemies in India. “Welcome Audi E-Tron to our electric car company,” Mercedes-Benz India tweeted on Thursday.Such bonhomie is rare between Mercedes-Benz and Audi. In the Indian automobile industry, it is viewed as a significant change of stance by the two German luxury-car makers, as they bend backwards to entice customers…
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Audi RS6 Avant Strives To Hold Its Own In A Drag Race Against The Tesla Model X
Internet videos have conditioned us to understand just how quickly electric cars can get off the line and through the quarter-mile. And, indeed, they are very quick. But their speed isn’t unmatchable. CarWow pitted the fan-favorite Audi RS6 Avant against the Tesla Model X Performance to see if a hot ICE wagon can take on…
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From Porsche’s $91,000 station wagon to GMC’s 1,000-horsepower pickup, here are 9 of the coolest electric vehicles launching in 2021
The Air sedan, the debut model from EV startup Lucid Motors, is set to hit streets in 2021. Lucid Electric cars are hitting the market at a dizzying pace. More than 10 new EVs will go on sale in the US by the end of 2021. The Lucid Air sedan, Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo wagon,…
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Porsche Taycan Turbo Vs. Audi RS e-tron GT: Which Of The German EVs Is Supreme?
With both based on the same platform, it’s easy to write off the Audi RS e-tron GT and Porsche Taycan Turbo as simple reskins of each other. But, with several changes to each car, it’s not as simple as that. So, to find out which is best, Carwow’s Mat Watson decided to pit the two…
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Huawei is not a carmaker. It wants to be the Bosch of China
One after another, Chinese technology giants have announced their plans for the auto space throughout the past couple of months. Some internet businesses, such as search engine provider Baidu, made a decision to recruit support from a conventional carmaker to create cars. Xiaomi, which makes its smartphones but has stressed for many years it’s a…
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2022 Audi Q4 e-tron Electric SUVs Coming From Under $45k In RWD And AWD Forms
Audi has taken the wraps off two new additions to the e-tron family: the Q4 e-Tron and its slopped roof sibling, the Q4 e-Tron Sportback. With these compact electric SUV offerings, Audi hopes to expand their line-up, with the aim of offering more EVs in the US market than any other luxury manufacturer by the…
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2021 Audi Q2 Improves On 2016 Model And Passes The Moose Test
After four years in the market, the Audi Q2 range was given a mid-cycle refresh, and it was this iteration that was recently subjected to the moose test. For the challenging maneuver, Km77 chose the S line 35 TFSI version, which uses a 1.5-liter turbocharged unit with 150 PS (148 HP / 110 kW), coupled…