Yesterday, Paul Y. mentioned our Fool’s Gold long-roof Volvo would make a great Swedish General Lee. Well, it looks like the notion of foreign-bred successors to the Hazard County throne is a popular one. OnCars has worked up a great review of Audi’s S5, complete with plenty of sideways action in the dirt and Dixie-whistling [...]
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 [...]
Long-time reader, first-time poster… It’s a pleasure to finally join the Autofiends staff, and thanks to the timely expiration of Mr. Jonny Lieberman’s restraining order against me, I’m now able to both share my automotive obsession with you, the lovely readers, and resume my usual position in a spacious, binocular-equipped, custom-built treehouse across the street [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
