TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Remember the 2004 movie I,Robot starring Will Smith, a bunch of crazy Apple-inspired robots and the spherical drive-equipped hovering Audi RSQ ? Now there's a company trying to bring that to life, building a hover DeLorean as an entry for the Automotive X prize. Sprinkled throughout the film were...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Wandering around Geneva, a couple of things become readily apparent. First and foremost, this is a rich-ass city. Banks and ultra high end luxury stores are as common as faux hawks, and the Audi RS4 is a commoners' car. Another thing you notice quite quickly is how a city situated between two mountain ranges at the bottom of a giant lake gets kinda windy. I'm not going to step on Chicago's toes, but...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
Filed under: Time Warp , Wagons/Estates A performance wagon might sound like a relatively new concept, but this bad boy was tearing up the streets with kids and pets in the back seat long before the Audi RS6 Avant and BMW M5 Touring existed. The story goes that a Chicago man with five children purchased a Plymouth Satellite wagon out of necessity, but craved more performance. When the Road Runner...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Filed under: Car Buying , Wagons/Estates , Euro , Audi , UK click above for a high-res gallery of the Audi RS6 Avant There are a lot of different figures to get caught up in when discussing Audi's UK-spec RS6 Avant , and most of them concern the wagon's performance. Let's start with power. The RS6 produces 572 hp and 479 lb.-ft. of torque from a twin-turbo'd V10. That means 60 comes up in 4.6 seconds,...
Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
The Lexus IS-F/R V8 super-sedan was already a capable car and they have lived up to the promise of going head-t head with the like of the Audi RS4, BMW M3 and the Mercedes C63 AMG. But it seems as if the Toyota owned company have yet another ace up its sleeve and are working [...]
