Oh, high performance station wagons. Can you be any more awesome? Well, if you ask most tuners, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” And Schmidt Revolution – the divisionof Volker Schmidt GmbH based in the...
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The phrase “race car for the street” has so much mileage on it that it could have gone to Uranus and back about six times. Of course, there are some instances where it’s correctly applied,...
We’re already on record as being fans of the Donkervoort D8 GTO. You do remember the Donkervoort D8 GTO, don’t you? It’s the Dutch neo-Lotus/Caterham 7 with the 400 horsepower 2.5L turbo inline-five from Audi’s...
We can’t help but admire Jon Olsson: The Swedish skiing savant not only has the money to buy tuned supercars like a Lamborghini Gallardo and Audi R8 V10 (as well as work with the Rebellion...
Just 10 years ago, the idea of Audi producing a mid-engined supercar bordered on preposterous. After all, Audi parent Volkswagen already had Lamborghini in its stable, and was hard at work on what would become...
One of the hottest of hot hatchbacks in recent years was the Audi RS3, a fire-breathing five-door stuffed with turbocharged inline-five and all-wheel-drive goodness. It never came here to the U.S. (though its drivetrain did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGUJo5Akuo&list=UUydtMNspoPAlqBjFSGnigSw Few engine configurations scream “Performance!” as loudly as a V8. Whether powering American muscle cars, European supercars or something else, two inline-fours opposed at an angle and sharing a crankshaft combine good power, great...
Although it might seem like just yesterday that Audi joined the supercar manufacturer club, the reality is the R8 is one of the senior citizens of the performance car world, and word is an all-new...
While the Audi R8 Spyder certainly isn’t the most ho-hum convertible being made today, it isn’t quite the flashiest, either. The aftermarket restyling shamans at CT Exclusive decided to do something about that shortcoming by...
Last June, we reported on a striking, blue-chrome-wrapped Audi R8 V10 assembled by a German tuner called xXx Performance. Aside from the conversation-starter looks (and company name; we shudder to think how often we’d have...