One of the jewels in Audi’s cap is quattro. As our origin blog post describes, it’s the all-wheel drive system to end all all-wheel drive systems. Developed in the context of German army snow crawlers, few competitors have come close to replicating its gift for maintaining grip. All that will shift soon with the addition […]
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Audi Readying New Crossover Q1 SUV for 2016 Debut
One year ago, one of the very first things we wrote about on this blog was Audi’s plan for a Q1 crossover SUV. With Audi’s official artwork above, we all got excited for monster truck, moon rover mash-up. With 12 additional months of tidbits, we have an update on the progress of the Audi Q1. […]
Audi Q3 Becomes Second Vehicle to Offer AT&T Mobile Data Plan
There’s a moment in the 1992 film “Sneakers” where Ben Kingsley says to Robert Redford, “The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It’s run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It’s all just electrons.” Redfords responds, of course, with his trademark smirk, squinty eyed expression and a withering […]
Audi says “Compact SUV,” we say “Lunar Rover”
Audi has made it known that it wants to offer 60 models by 2020, but the question of how it plans to get there from its current 49 has been kept behind the curtain. The German automaker inched one step closer to its goal this week by unveiling one of its planned vehicles, the Q1. […]