One of the things I love most about Jack Baruth’s writing is his unrepentant contrarianism. Think turbos are cool? Wrong! You want steam power. Low profile tires? Go back to you XBOX — all real racers drive on thick cement tires. Big brake kit? Use your grandpa’s WW2 parachute — the one down in mama’s [...]
It seems like the German tuners get to have all the fun when it comes to Audis. Between Kicherer, B&B, and ABT all the good tuning news comes from the land of brat und schnitzel. At least it used to. Check out American tuner Stasis’s take on Audi’s S5. Available in Touring or Competition packages, [...]
Hot on the heels of the RS5 shots comes this little number. Don’t worry, Audi isn’t teaming up with Mitsubishi. It’s a special one-off by the Quattro folks themselves, Audi. Branded the S5 Evo, the car comes with a 420 horse version of the 4.2-liter FSI V8 found in both the RS4 and R8. The [...]
Around here, some of us really love dual-clutch transmissions and see then as the the future. Others of us (ahem) are row ‘em if you got ‘em types; backwards but happy. One thing we can agree on is that plain old regular manumatics suck. Save for Mercedes’ 7-speed and the crazy-fast 8-speed Lexus stick in [...]
Audi has a clear target now for the RS5 in the current M3 coupe. So word is now leaking via Germany’s Autozeitung and out of Ingolstadt about how they plan on taking on the hallowed two door from Munich. The RS will be a serious step up on the regular S5. The heart of the [...]
What could possibly be better than the all aluminum V8 snuggled under the hood of the S5? How ’bouts a supercharger, for starters. Motoren Technik Mayer (MTM) out of Germany has plopped a compressor on the twin-bank mill, effectively turning the stock 354 horsepower into 505 screamin’ clydesdales. The twisty stuff is up too, form [...]
The new Audi A5 and S5 models aren’t even close to being available yet and H&R Springs has already made a set of springs for it. This just confirms my theory that H&R is run by magical car gnomes that make our dreams come true. So far, H&R has springs that will lower the [...]
Long rumored and finally unveiled at Geneva, the new S5 coupe takes firm aim at BMW’s 3 series two door. The S5 is based on Audi’s new modular platform that will underpin the next gen S4. You can’t beat a coupe’s lines and the A5 doesn’t miss in the styling department. Of course we’ll take [...]
