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Audi has unveiled the crosslane coupé at the Paris Motor Show. With a Multimaterial Space Frame, the vehicle concept is a plug-in hybrid drive based on a purpose-designed 1.5-liter three-cylinder TFSI and two electric motors, with fuel cons...

Audi is adding a five-door model to its A1 range that will be released in early 2012. It will be available with six engines: three petrol engines and three diesel engines with hp numbers between 86hp and 185hp. The exterior of the A1 Sportbac...

Among the many new cars Audi unveiled at the Geneva show, the folks in Ingolstadt may have saved the best for last. It’s not a bonkers, matte finish, lambo-door showstopper but the stylish and modern Audi A3 Sedan concept fires a potentially le...

Audi has set a series of goals for future models. First, it will make sure that future models have a greater differentiation. Second, their technological aspects will be more obvious in their design. Finally, the interior and exterior design will ...

Italian furniture designer Poltrana Frau will build the chair

Walter de Silva, head of Volkswagen Group Design, who is best known for his work for Audi is branching out and has created a chair for Italian furniture maker Poltrona Frau. The design for the chair is called “Luft,” the German wor...

The car only exists virtually

A film adaptation of the book Ender’s Game has been in development for over a decade, but it will finally hit theaters on November 1 in the United States and October 24 in most of Europe. The producers brought in Audi to design the look of t...

Monocoques have reduced in weight by 50% from 1999 to today

Weight is the enemy of motorsports. While the cars in nearly every series have weight minimums that they must meet, every bit that a team can get under that amount allows the team to distribute weight wherever it would like. Audi says that since 1...

Audi has codenamed it Spacer

Audi is keeping a close eye on whether BMW's Concept Active Tourer is a success. In case it is, Audi is working on an A3-based vehicle with a higher roof that could seat five or seven people. Audi engineers have codenamed it the Spacer. The ca...

It is also going to give Quattro heavier marketing

Audi is working on a whole new design language with the intention of making its models more differentiated so that the A4, A6 and A8 do not just look like miniature versions of one another. At the same time, it will heavily market the advantages o...

New technical boss Ulrich Hackenberg stopped the project

Audi insiders say that its proposed diesel-electric supercar that would have sat above the R8 is on hold. Audi technical director Ulrich Hackenberg says that the program would was “an interesting idea but not a priority.” Hacke...