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XCAR@Geneva: Audi R8

The R8 is back and all new. Audi’s released details of the second generation R8 – boasting V10 power and top speeds in excess of 320km/h, the German supercar has got Italy square in its sights. XCAR looks at the new car and where it came from.

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Audi TT

The original Audi TT is indeed a timeless classic of design. The Bauhaus-inspired design was clean, simple and geometric, yet staggeringly fresh and original when it shocked the automotive world in 1995 at the Frankfurt motor show. The second generation was not so revolutionary in styling, but upped the TT’s quality and performance dramatically. Now […]

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90 SECOND TEST – Audi S1 Sportback

We here at OVERSTEER love nothing more than a GOOD Hot Hatch – and the Audi S1 is a Hot Hatch done properly! Taking the basic premise of jamming a big, powerful engine into a very small car, the Audi S1 packs the 170kW turbo engine out of the VW Golf GTi, slaps a quattro 4WD system […]

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XCAR interviews Joop Donkervoort

Who? You might ask. Joop Donkervoort is the man behind one of the most insane and utterly awesome cars you can buy –  the remarkable Donkervoort D8 GTO. A tribute to and logical modernisation of the Lotus Seven, the D8 GTO packs  a 2.5-litre TFSI 5-cylinder turbocharged Audi engine, has a power output of between 250 […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Audi S1

Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, when they first appeared, the recipe for a Hot Hatch was fairly simple – take the smallest car in your range and stuff the biggest engine you can make fit into it. That was all you needed, and in most cases it worked well. In others, not so much, […]

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Classic Random Stuff!

Quattro

Got a spare 20 minutes this weekend? No? Well, find an excuse to not do something for 20 minutes and watch this brilliant video /DRIVE have done looking back at some of the great quattro cars Audi have made. And, yes, our video road test of the RS6 Avant is STILL coming…

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Audi A3 Sedan

As we mentioned in yesterday’s Hyundai Elantra First Drive, small sedans seem to be the done thing this year. Our second launch this week was also a small sedan – the new sedan version of the Audi A3. Are small sedans the new black? Well, we drove a red on at the Audi launch, so […]

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