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Eschewing trite teaser images , Audi has instead given us some actual eye candy, providing official design sketches of four upcoming models: the A5 Cabrio and Sportback, the all-new 2010 A7 four-door coupe and the 2011 A8 sedan . While the A5 Cabrio looks pretty much like a topless A5 coupe, the A5 Sportback is unique for not looking at all like a traditional sportback model, instead bearing resemblance to notchbacks of yore. The A7 brings TT-esque styling to the burgeoning four-door coupe market, while the revised A8, at least in sketch form, looks just about tough as hell. Take a look for yourself in the gallery below. galleryPost('audiconceptsketches', 6, 'Upcoming Audi A5, A7 and A8 Design Sketches'); [ Motor Authority ]
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Eschewing trite teaser images , Audi has instead given us some actual eye candy, providing official design sketches of four upcoming models: the A5 Cabrio and Sportback, the all-new 2010 A7 four-door coupe and the 2011 A8 sedan . While the A5 Cabrio looks pretty much like a topless A5 coupe, the A5 Sportback is unique for not looking at all like a traditional sportback model, instead bearing resemblance to notchbacks of yore. The A7 brings TT-esque styling to the burgeoning four-door coupe market, while the revised A8, at least in sketch form, looks just about tough as hell. Take a look for yourself in the gallery below. galleryPost('audiconceptsketches', 6, 'Upcoming Audi A5, A7 and A8 Design Sketches'); [ Motor Authority ]
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Someone in the know over at Audiblog.nl has spilled forth a detailed list of all Audi brand engines for all models through the 2011 calender year — and the release dates for new models. In addition to the big engine news, the leakers claim that we'll be seeing the rumored Audi A7 model in June of 2010, as well as an S7 version following that fall, and a return to form for the next generation Audi S4 . Look below for a detail look at what's coming up for Audi in the next three years. Audi A1 Starting at the bottom of the grid, the Audi A1 will maintain the currently planned 1.4 TFSI, but will get an 86 HP 1.2-liter TFSI good for a little less power but will be quite a bit easier on European wallets. Audi S4 It seems the B8 Audi S4 will be returning to its twin-turbo V6 roots, as early as this coming November. News of this respite from V8 shenanigans comes with virtually all positive notes, considering the engine is to displace 3.0 L but grunt out 330 HP, only 10 shy of the...
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It's the worst case scenario. Anyone that's ever left their car with a valet has had this flash in their mind right as the grinning attendant takes the keys and assures that he'll "take care of it." It's the oddly specific fear that the valet is going to take your car on the road, drive it far too hard, and smash it into pieces. Well for one Audi A8 owner, that fear has been realized...we think. charset="utf-8">galleryPost('valetaudia8crash', 3, 'Brooklyn Valet Hoon Kills Audi A8'); Last night, a member of the Vortex for all things VW supposedly gave his beloved Audi A8 over to a Brooklyn valet attendant, but instead of getting the car back in the condition he left it, he found it totaled. Currently, details are slim -- and completely unverifiable -- but according to the member of the forum, the big German luxo sedan was being raced for about 45min prior to biting the sidewalk and sealing its fate. [via VWvortex member icuMk2]
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In what can only be called the worst case of AADS (Asshole Audi Driver Syndrome) ever recorded, Tomas Delgado, a Spanish businessman, is suing the family of a boy he killed while speeding in his Audi A8. The accident caused 14,000 Euros of damage to the all-aluminum luxury car, and Delgado is also looking to cover the additional 6,000 Euros in transportation costs he incurred while the Audi was in the shop. He argues that his 17-year-old victim, Enaitz Iriondo, who was wearing dark clothes while cycling at night, caused the damage while he was in the process of having his young life snuffed out by Delgago's hurtling death chariot. Quoting Mr. Delgado--and please restrain your urge to vomit here: "I'm also a victim in all of this, you can't fix the lad's problems, but you can fix mine." His lawyer, Beelzebub, Esq., offered no comment on the case, which will see an expected verdict on January 30 and perhaps witness the Earth open up to swallow Delgado whole. [via...
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Today's very special Commenter might have just pulled off some web 3.0 shit. We're not totally sure, but regardless we totally like it. Actually, we've always been obsessed with strange loops -- where one system (say grammar) fights with another (say logic). For instance, check this out, "The following sentence is true. The preceding sentence is false." Grammatically it works, but logically it's meaningless. Want to read more about strange lops, isomorphisms and men from Crete? Pick up Douglas Hofstadter's most excellent, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid . Want to find out who's the Commenter of the Day? Jump. OK, so first of all, here is the Comment, from Goatrope: "Hey you dumbass!! It's an "R8" not an "A8"! Even Motor Trend readers know that!" The comment is from the Motor Trend breaking the GT-R embargo post. Mr. Goatrope was responding to another comment that confused the Audi R8 super-ish car with the more upper-middle management A8 4-door saloon. Here's that one: "Any...
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While we knew the RS6 was coming, we had no idea the Audi RS6 it was going run for us, or that Bryan Adams was going to belt out an acoustic rendition of Run to You after the cover was pulled on the V10 twin-turbo wagon. As the rest of the presentation...
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