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Audi pushed hard for market credibility against Mercedes and BMW during the 1990s. The aluminum-framed A8 was a major step forward in that effort. Product planners in Ingolstadt wanted to find a way to build on their success. More »
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As the world gears up to gape at the wedding of one Kate Middleton into the barrel of jug-eared inbreds known as the British royal family, Audi has figured out a way to turn the royals into silent spokesmodels. More »
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While the debate boils in the United States about how many gadgets we should have in our dashboards, European makes are streaming ahead with broadband-quality wireless connections built-in. Will America lose an auto broadband race too? More »
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According to Germany's Der Spiegel, Bugatti is working on a new sedan (Galibier?) based on the Audi A8. Also, Volkswagen's board has decided Bugatti will stop building sportscars in 2014. Just what VW needed — another uber-luxury sedan brand. [DerSpiegel] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5723296&view=rss&microfeed=true The 2011 Audi A8 will cost $78,050 or, if you're Tom Brady, one old S8. More »
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Last week Tom Brady crashed his 2010 Audi S8 into a minivan and then joked about wrecking it so he could get the 2011 model. Well, it's one week later and Audi's given him... the 2011 model. Seriously. More »
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The 2011 Audi A8's a high-tech gadgetmobile from front-to-back. Exhibit A: the A8's pure LED "gorgeous set of eyes" are works of functional art. No wonder Tom Brady wanted one so badly. More »
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According to InsideLine, Audi's looking to put the 2011 A8's new ZF-sourced eight-speed automatic transmission into the rest of its lineup. That may include the entry-level A3 model — even when it's equipped with the 2.0T four-banger. Simplicity, FTL! [InsideLine] More »
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Watch this video of an Audi A8 weaving in and out of snowpocalypse carnage outside of Greenbelt, MD during this month's storm and you'll think one of two things: More »
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The 2011 Audi A8, unveiled last night in Miami, is loaded with gadgets — everything from handwriting recognition, terrain-predicting transmission controls and automatic turn signals. It's like Inspector Gadget's car — if he were a chauffeur-driven investment banker. More »
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The 2011 Audi A8's finally been revealed live here in Miami and it's got an absolutely gorgeous set of new eyes along with new body panels and a 4.2-liter TDI engine. The new aluminum und shteel live in person below. More »
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The 2011 Audi A8 is just about to be unveiled here in Miami, blending Aluminum und Steel und some really cool headlights. We haven't seen the car yet, but we have seen the frame, its balls and Lucy Liu. More »
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Since we all know Mitsubishi only makes Evos, these three upside down diamonds seem like a bad disguise for the ginormous 2010 Audi A8. Expect to see the full unveiling at December's LA Auto Show. [Autoblog.nl] More »
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Despite the gloomy Carpocalypse that has the rest of the automotive landscape in shambles; Audi AG has posted a record number of sales for 2008. More »
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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. More »
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Friday we showed you the Death Race trailer which, for the most part, saw a fairly positive reaction from the Jalopnik commentariat rather than the savaging with reckless abandon we expected. But we're a fickle bunch round these parts so we should have expected nothing less than going against the grain. But we thought we'd reward the most discriminating readership in the automotive webosphere with some real Jason Statham-flavored red meat for the Jalopnik grille, by way of the always authentically automotive Transporter series. Yes friends, here's the Transporter 3 trailer — and from what we can tell from the few seconds of glimpsing the W12-powered Audi A8 in this Iggy Pop-soundtracked 55 seconds of crank-ed up action, the final installation in the epic trilogy will be more in line with the unrealism of the second movie than the awesomeness of the first. Pity. [Allocine.fr via First Showing] More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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 The Mail] More »
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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 loops, 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. More »
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While we knew the Audi Audi RS6 Avant was coming, we had no idea 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 was in German the details are still hazy. We do know the world needs more hopped up sportwagons now more than ever. An A4 and A8 were also kicking around coverless. Now with bonus gallery! More »
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Can you spot the differences? If you said, "front turn indicators," give yourself a nice bowl of vorsprung durch technik. If not, don't get all self-hating, most of the changes — save the signals, new side mirrors with embedded signal lights and LED taillights — are underneath the skin. The Audi flagship for Europe gets a new, fuel-sipping 2.8-liter direct-injection FSI six producing a healthy 210 horsepower that can coax the largest of Audis past the 60-mph mark at nigh on eight seconds. What's more, Audi says it's giving the luxobarge a more engaging feel by way of a re-configured steering kit and adaptive air suspension. New sound damping further reduces noise, vibration and harshness, and a fresh set of driver-assistance tech includes side-assist (blind-spot) and lane-departure warnings. It's just like the same old A8, only just slightly different. If it were dish soap, it'd have a flamboyant "New!" printed on the box, and you'd keep buying it. (Click through for official release.) More »
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We admit; this is only peripherally related to cars. However, that doesn't change the fact that US Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak drove 900 miles wearing diapers to confront, allegedly intimidate and possibly kidnap another woman in an airport parking lot. Nowak felt Colleen Shipman was romantically involved with Space Shuttle Discovery pilot William Oefelein whom Nowak had a big ole crush on (even though she's married with children, as is he). Back to the important bits: The diapers were so Nowak wouldn't have to stop and pee on her voyage from Houston to Orlando. The article states that lots of astronauts wear diapers. This raises a number of questions in our mind, chief among them being what sort of a vehicle has a 900-mile range? Even Clarkson the Great could only coax 800 miles out of his diesel Audi. And we wager that NASA-chick here was driving pretty fast. Plus, if she had to stop for gas, why not stop for a pee? Unless... yeah. Fans of the first season of Upright Citizens Brigade will find below to be the funniest headline of all time. – Jonny Lieberman More »
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What's under the skin of this widebody Audi flagship? According to spies it's the next-generation A8, which if you ask those who stalk such luxurious prey, is due for release in 2009 as a 2010 model. How can you tell? Cast your peepers on the wider fenders and body elongation, which hearkens the next model's expanded footprint, via Audi's Modular Longitudinal Platform, an architecture shared with the A4, A6, Q6 and upcoming A5. Expect better handling and a tighter road feel, more power and the Le Mans-winning TDI V12 under the hood, optionally speaking. – Mike Spinelli More »
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England is car hell. Let's forget about the expensively obvious for a moment (insane taxes, equally insane gas prices, doubly insane speed cameras on every corner and under your bed) and the plain daf (Clarkson thinks the Jaguar XK is cooler than the upcoming Dodge Challenger) and look at the cars themselves. They suck! Nine out of ten cars in Old Blighty are 1.9-Liter French diesels. The rest are Korean brands you don't even want to know about. (SsangYong Rexton II, anyone?) Sure, you will see an occasional large BMW "saloon," but closer inspection will reveal it to be a 520d SE with a 1995cc oil burner and tiny wheels (though, it does — slowly — get 41mpg). Audis sell pretty well in London, but the overwhelming majority of them are three-door A3s with puny engines. In other words, rebadged Golfs. (Jump baby, jump) More »
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Audi engineers are pretty torqued by the company introducing its first major LED-based lighting system with the R8. According to a press release, the R8 has 210 external LEDs, some of which even illuminate the engine. Among them are 24 front-mounted LEDs — set as running lights amid an assembly inspired by the Sydney Opera House — and 186 LED brake lights. And to think, it wasn't long ago we were throwing around a "disco" Frisbee and wearing LED-laced Garanimals. What's next, not getting burned by hot lightbulbs? – Mike Spinelli More »
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Our boy Zerin at Dubspeed sent his man Wes Grueninger off to French Canada to flog the V10-powered angry brothers of the A6 and A8, and came back...well, we're not entirely sure. He had nits and picks about both models, but as if seemed like he liked them and was suitably impressed with the precision of most everything but the brake modulation. Plus, there's an entertaining bit about airborne pomme frittes and an irate Quebecois woman, and we're always suckers for that kind of nonsense. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Who knew the problems a Pope can cause to two of the biggest and baddest Bavarian auto companies. Both BMW and Audi have been bickering like two catholic school kids over which automaker has the right to supply the official car for the six-day visit by Pope Benedict XVI. But after weeks of back-and-forth, folks over at the AFP claim the solution to the impasse came by a combination of divine and bureaucratic intervention — with the Munich Archbishop's office finally being forced to step in and make the final decision... More »
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Our buddy Luca and his gang of Italian viscounts at Autoblog.it say Audi may be preparing to drop its LeMans-winning V12 TDI motor into the A8 flagship. That would bring between 500 and 650 horses (depending on turbos and tuning) and just over a gajillion lbs.-foot of torque to the limo. We're still convinced the company will also drop the 5.5-liter mill into its R8 sports car, but that likely won't happen until at least a year after launch. More »
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Skiny maneuvers the A6 Avant into proper takeoff position in San Diego. More »
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The Jundland Wastes are not to be travelled lightly! More »
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On an absolutely sweltering, uncharacteristically humid Nevada morning, after a blast to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway with Noah Lehman-Haupt in the SuperSpeeders/Gotham Dream Cars Ford GT, we hopped in the back seat of the Rensing/Nicole Audi A8L, did a quick lap of the Shelby proving ground, and shot off for lunch in Lake Havasu. Click through for the tale. More »
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We're not sure if TeeVee Wert really wanted to go on the Bullrun, as he made some namby-pamby excuse about being stuck at some Ferrari party because he needed to impress some girl and dragged Austin with him, thus leaving the fully-awesome Skiny without Jalopnik pals to hang out with in Detroit (note to people in general — you're missing out on radness if you don't hang with Skiny, he's probably nicer than you, we're willing to bet he's faster than you and he's undoubtedly cooler than you). More »
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Fueling up for world domination at the drive-thru Starbucks in Blythe, California, just past the AZ border. Next stop? San Diego! More »
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On our first evening on the Bullrun, Murphy was in full effect — at least as far as technology went. The power port on our iBook decided it was no longer going to do its job. So we resigned ourselves to kicking it Colt Seavers-style; watching a documentary on Wayne Newton while smoking cigarettes in our in-room jacuzzi tub at Caesar's Palace. Unfortunately, Heather Thomas and Markie Post weren't there with us to comment on the day's adventure. More »
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Take a closer look at that late-model Audi A8 rounding the N rburgring. According to spies, it's no run-of-the-mill showroom queen that's been through a round of stunt driving a la "The Transporter." It's a test mule of the next-generation A8, which will likely debut in 2009 as a 2010 model. The company's five-year plan appears to include going after the upcoming Porsche Panamera luxury four-door — said to be debuting in the same model year — and the next BMW 7-Series with a brand new V12 CDI and an updated V10 gas engine. The Car Connection offers a spec illustration of what such a beast might look like in the flesh. More »
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At the Limousine and Chauffeur Show, held last week in the UK — the first show of its kind in Europe — Audi's long-wheelbase A8 took top honors for Chauffeur Car of the Year. Judges lavished the A8 with praise for its performance, client comfort, and low maintenance costs, not to mention its agility in outrunning Peruvian drug cartels. Also shown at the event was the "Double Decadence" bus and a barely-work-safe calendar. (Also, a fat welcome to new car blog LeftLane News.) More »
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Today is supposedly the day Transporter 2's microsite goes online at Audi. But so far, all we've gotten is a minimalist window that pops up with interesting use of white space and a few gray squares. Sort of a subdued Mondrian effect, if you will. And we know you will. Audi's big on this whole Transporter thing, using it to gain some underworld cred for the A8 W12, the main mode of transit for the title character played by Jason Statham. (Did Yenko Novas appreciably go up in value after Statham drove one in The Italian Job?) As for us, we just wanna see some Amber Valletta in an A3 Sportback Quattro. Hot-cha! More »
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