When we arrived early Friday morning at the Mecaglisse test track outside Mont Tremblant we could hear the sound of a helicopter. The chopper was rounding the track above one of the Audi A1 quattros on hand at the Fascination quattro winter driving event we attended. I grabbed for my camera and headed out by the track, just in time to see the A1 come in for a rest and ...

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The 2011 racing season is just around the corner and AutoSport International held just this week in the UK has got us salivating for the new season and the new Audi R18. Below are a mix of videos from AutoSport.


First, Audi Sport works drivers Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen sat down for a Q&A to talk about everything from Le Mans to F1.



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One of the most surprising things about the Audi quattro Concept for those of us at Fourtitude is just how many readers emailed us with conspiracy theories about the car's engine placement. As no engine shots were out there following the car's debut in Paris and subsequent showing in LA, some thought Audi may have pulled a fast one "saying it was longitudinal ...

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Audi of America is as serious as a heart attack when it comes to social media. We'd published ahead of last weeks North American International Auto Show in Detroit that we'd be joining other online bloggers from Speed:Sport:Life and Quattroworld.com as well as Audi's own social media team in helping to cover the Detroit Auto Show from an Audi perspective. ...

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TID Styling has posted photos of TheTTShop.com's signal green TT RS including shots we've never seen before (studio shots like the one above, detail shots like the one below). We love the color and also the detail work including pieces like carbon fiber bits from TID. Check out more pics after the jump below the next pic.




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What you see above is called the Audi T-tron? What's a T-tron? Answer: T-tron is a (photoshop) styling exercise by Theophilus Chin whereby he's applied the greenhouse of a production Audi TT to the body of Audi's quattro Concept.

The result is interesting in that it shows the similarity of the quattro's design to other e-tron models. When we first spied the 3/4 above we thought the car might ...

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Last time I was at Audi Tradition's wonderful warehouse where Audi's vintage crown jewels are kept, my friend Peter Kober told me all about one of his more recent projects. It seems Audi Tradition had acquired a very rare DKW GT Malzoni in Brazil. Peter and a team including noted photographer Stefan Warter had gone over to ...

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We're literally headed out the door for the North American International Auto Show and wanted to share a few last links of coverage from CES that we thought you'd enjoy. Here's the rundown.

1. IntoMobile Live Blog of Audi's CES Presentation - Intomobile.com ran a report from the Audi presentation at CES, complete with minute-by-minute commentary on what was transpiring ...

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The auto show season kicks off officially on Monday with the first press day at the North American International Auto Show. The NAIAS is the biggest auto show in North America and as such Audi always shows up in force. Of course there will ...

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Earlier this week Audi and its parent The Volkswagen Group were in the headlines in the Financial Times Deutschland because of an apparent debate between the management of the two companies regarding how to proceed with new EV and hybrid technologies. At the center of the supposed debate was the powertrain technology shown in the A1 e-tron with its rotary ...

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