For many years people have been watching the ever-escalating, mostly-German horsepower wars and wondering “where’s it going to end?” First 400 hp was considered epic. Then that became de rigueur and 500 horses was the new black. Today (if you live in Europe) you can get twin-turbo V10 Audi station wagons that make (basically) 600 [...]

I suffer from automotive ADD. I’ve lost count of how many cars I’ve bought and sold in my 24 years as a driver. I’ve rarely kept a car for a year and more often than not traded out earlier. Within that long list there were three cars that I regret letting go. The first wouldn’t [...]

Around here we think the Audi RS4 is one of the most desirable four doors ever made. During the media launch a couple of years back they introduced the car with this video. Jacky Ickx is one of the greatest living racing drivers of our time. Vanina, his daughter is a pretty hot shoe herself. [...]

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Audi’s upcoming and completely drool-worthy RS5 would be getting a free-reving 4.2-liter FSI V8 good for 470 hp. Trouble is, we also reported that the next RS4 would be getting a supercharged 3.0-liter V6 , a variation of the mill found in the 2010 S4 but also [...]

If you’ve driven an RS4 — or an R8 — you know that the hopped up familial 4.2-liter V8 is one of the best engines ever created. And that’s not over-stating it. Word has come down the car blog pipe from Car to Autoblog that the next RS4 will get a force-fed V6. Shock! Horror! [...]