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Filed under: Videos, Audi Click above to watch the video after the jump New York Times and Automobile contributor Ezra Dyer may have found the perfect German exotic for New England winters: the Audi R8. True, the R8 is pretty low to the ground, but it also makes good use of Audi's superb Quattro all-wheel drive system and thanks to its mid-engine layout much of the weight sits over the rear wheels. But even the best AWD is useless when...  

The always-ready-for-frivolous-auto-indulgence Ezra Dyer needed to hit snow-bound streets before Christmas for a Bed, Bath and Beyond run. The result? A snow shoes-equipped all-wheel-drive 525HP, $163,000 Audi R8 V10 became the world's most expensive neighborhood combination snow-plow and snowmobile. [via NYTWheels]  

Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Audi Audi R8 LMS - click above for high res image gallery When Audi announced its new GT3 class R8 LMS race car late last year it was expecting 2009 to be a year of learning and development. As it turned out, it was a hugely successful season, landing championships in the FIA European GT series, along with the German and Belgian national series. All told, the R8s captured 23 race victories. In 2010 the new GT...  

Do you saw fully destroyed hotcar Audi R8? That’s exactly what happened to this Audi R8 in Athens, Greece. Details are sketchy, but the driver may have fallen asleep when the car veered off the road into the guardrail. It punctured through the side of the engine compartment, pierced through the steering column, and exited [...]  

So I happen to like Audis. I drive one, and I like her fine, but nevertheless if I received this razor in my stocking, she would have developed an inferiority complex at the sight of my incessant shaving. (more…)  

If you were an automobile manufacturer and you wanted to restyle your most outstanding, most head-snapping sports coupe supercar, where would you start? If you're Audi and you're talking about the R8 sports coupe, you would start by offering a...  

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Videos, Audi, Nissan, Porsche, UKClick above to watch the video after the jump These are our favorite kinds of car videos. Take a few super hot, fire-breathing, track-ready road cars and pit them against one another on a race track and see who wins. Autocar magazine's Steve Sutcliffe assembled the Nissan GT-R, the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Audi R8 V10 at the UK's Castle Combe circuit to see which of the entry...  

Mercedes-Benz doesn’t have one. Neither does BMW. Nor Volvo or Saab or any of the Brits save Lotus, and not—at least since the short tenure of the Ford GT—any of what’s left of the Big Three. Exclude the Italians specializing in exotics and ...  

A new Audi R8 V-10 showed up in Charleston the other day. Don’t expect to see another one for a long, long time. With a base price of $146,000, just 150 were made this year for the United States. McDaniels Audi of Charleston took order of the only one this year in South Carolina.The buyer, Todd Price of Murrells Inlet, paid $185,000 for his model. He picked up the car Tuesday, the day after his birthday.  

Step One: Buy a U.S.-spec A3. Step Two: Drop it off with MTM and cut a check. Step Three: Go nuts. If you’re reading this, you probably know that the S3 is the hopped-up version of the Audi A3 hatchback. You’re also probably aware that a factory S3 can only be purchased by dudes who wear [...] Related posts:KTM X-Bow – Specialty File2008 Lingenfelter Supercharged Pontiac G8 – Specialty File2008 MTM Audi R8 Supercharged – First Drive Review  

German outfit Senner Tuning is at it again, this time releasing an upgrade package for the Audi R8. Based off of the R8 4.2, Senner calls this version the Super Sport. The first thing you notice about the Senner Tuning R8 Super Sport is the all-black finish with upgraded 20-inch wheels. The upgraded suspension is adjustable [...]  

Do you want to see uncensored promo version from BMW & Audi holly war? BMW guys cuts the last few seconds with a Audi logo. Similar Posts: 2009 VW Golf GTI VI Promo Video: Audi R8 TDI V12 Audi R8 video Video: Audi A5 Convertible Video: 2009 Audi A6  

Another day, another sporty electric vehicle is revealed. This time, it's the Audi e-tron, a sleek all-wheel drive EV that made its North American debut at this week's LA Auto Show. The vehicle has four motors, 313 horsepower, and 3,319 foot-pounds of torque--a whopping ten times the amount of torque of the Audi R8 engine. Audi's e-tron, which was designed from the start as an EV (instead of using a traditional vehicle platform repurposed...  

Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Performance, Europe, BMW BMW 1 Series Tii Concept - click above for high-res image gallery Audi has the mid-engined R8 (now available with a 525-horsepower V10). Mercedes-Benz now has the AMG SLS (with more power than the R8 - 563 horses). BMW has... a 500-horsepower V10 in a 4,000 pounds M6. Not exactly competitive in the supercar department these days. Well, according to everyone's favorite British Buff Book...  

DETROIT — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to travel to Detroit next month to attend the North American International Auto Show. Pelosi told reporters in Washington that she plans to visit the show along with other members of her House leadership ...