Posts Tagged ‘Audi’
Audi A7 Sportback
July 27th, 2010 
Kyle Love them or hate them, you could never accuse the Germans of resting on their laurels. They always seem to be either inventing new market segments or individual manufacturers enter segments that are new to themselves. And that according to Audi is what they’re up to with the A7 Sportback, although I’m not entirely convinced [...]
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Tags: 3.0 TDI, A7 Sportback, Audi, crown-gear diff, german, Quattro, V6, VAG 
No Comments »Drive Test – Audi TT RS Coupe
July 26th, 2010 Russell 
A Phoenix Rising? . When the TT RS was delivered for us to test for a week, the office crew who were in at the time took it for a quick strop or two around the block, and were chock-full of snap judgements on the vehicle when I pitched up to collect it. “It hasn’t [...]
Drive test – Audi A4 2.0 TFSI Stop Start
July 21st, 2010 Russell 
Baby Steps . Fuel consumption, I’m sure we all know, is no constant. Those EU combined-cycle consumption figures are not only unobtainable in the real world, but also depend largely on the angle at which the driver’s right foot is attached to his leg. A heavy throttle foot can make the “greenest” petrol or even [...]
Audi TT 2.0 TDI
July 21st, 2010 Kyle 
10,000 diesel TT’s produced Of all the cars we’ve had in 2010 thus far here at Drive, the best has been the TT RS. Well, Russell and I think so, but I say this to point out that despite its somewhat less than manly roots, we rather like the TT. Or at least we like [...]
Drive Test – Audi S5 Cabriolet
July 19th, 2010 Russell Perfectly Flawed When we tested the Audi S4 earlier in the year and found it desperately wanting, we were rounded upon by Audi enthusiasts and certain driving instructors – guys with (apparently) far greater talent behind the wheel than I, for being completely and utterly, well, wrong. “It’s the best-handling Audi I’ve ever driven!” was [...]
Stripped out R8
May 5th, 2010 Kyle Audi R8 GT It’s not as if the current R8 guise is insufficient or anything, but nevertheless petrolheads all over the world will applaud this move from Audi. Although don’t count on getting one. Audi have unveiled a pumped up, stripped out, more aggressive variant of their already awesome V10 powered R8 supercar, and it [...]
Drive Magazine April 2010
April 16th, 2010 Russell Open publication – Free publishing – More vivo – Click here to download the magazine now! (5.2MB) With the World Cup kickoff rapidly approaching and now near enough for us to taste, our April issue of South Africa’s best free, online motoring magazine Drive is just what you need to quell the unbridled excitement bubbling [...]
Audi's Golf in a pretty dress facelifted
April 8th, 2010 Kyle Audi TT Facelift Details of the Audi TT facelift to be officially unveiled at the Leipzig Auto Show have been revealed, and all the usual facelift suspects are there. Tweaked styling, refined engines, claims of improved fuel economy and of course a healthy dose of prolific marketing terms like dynamic, thrilling and efficiency getting thrown [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: 2010, Audi, Coupe, facelift, Leipzig Motor Show, Quattro, Roadster, TFSI, TT, TTS, VAG 2 Comments »2010 World Performance Car
April 6th, 2010 Kyle Audi R8 V10 The New York Auto Show recently played host to the 2010 World Car of the Year Awards ceremony, and in the World Performance Car category Audi has romped off with the crown. Audi’s awesome R8 V10 took the prize, the second time the R8 has won this award following the original V8 [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: 2010, 5.2 FSI V10, Audi, New York Auto Show, R8 V10, supercars, World Performance Car of the Year 1 Comment »Audi Leipzig lineup
April 2nd, 2010 Kyle Audi are shaping up for an impressive display at the Leipzig Motor Show, their much vaunted and hyped A1 is set to be launched to the public for a start. The Audi TT’s facelift is also set to be revealed for the first time in April at Leipzig. Unfortunately the perennial Audi show car, the [...]
