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 [...]
I. Aftermarket V-Twin maker S&S Cycle purchased the Crane Cams name and 16 of its patents for $1.2 million. The rest of Crane Cams’ inventory went to the same company for $215k. Crane’s factory in Daytona will stay shuttered even though the company has been purchased, which leaves the 280 people left jobless when the [...]
If all the doom and gloom has taken your favorite sports car out at the knees, take heart. Audi has taken a different tack when it comes to the future of the beloved S4 and S5. According to Audi Engineering Director Michael Dick, the next generation cars will be powered by turbo fours instead of [...]
Big day for Audi. Around lunchtime we learned that the R8 with a V10 is finally, actually for reals happening. Even better news for those of us in warm climates — you can get the 520 hp R8 or the “regular” 420 hp V8 version as a soft top. But what if you’re just plain [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
