Tag: road test

At this point it’s perhaps becoming a bit cliché to write at length about the amazing fuel mileage Audi’s diesel cars are capable of, but alas, here goes one more. We drove an A7 TDI from Vermont to New York City – and back, covering 560 miles, at 35mpg, without even trying.  Instead of hyepermiling,  we […] More »

It’s just like getting shot out of a cannon, without the cannon. Ok, so we’ve never actually been shot out of a cannon ourselves, but we can’t help but believing that a hard launch in the RS 7 simulates the sensation almost exactly. The cool part about the RS 7 is it is easy to […] More »

The Audi A3 was reborn for the 2015 model year, and we could not be more excited about this car. Why? Well, because without question, it’s a REAL Audi, in every way. The previous A3 was in no way a bad car, quite the contrary, but it didn’t sell like hotcakes here in the USA […] More »

Thank goodness for snow tires. There is about a foot of snow on the ground, and we’re winding our way over a tight mountain road, putting the very big and very powerful Audi S7 very sideways, and having an absolute ball in the process. Who would have imagined that a big luxury car with such […] More »

Week 15 in our Weekly Wallpaper presented by Michelin series is the staggeringly capable C7 S6, which we drove this back in 2013. Click the header image in this article, or this link for the wallpaper at 2000 x 1333 px. If demand is high enough, we’ll also upload the wallpapers in 16:9 resolution for […] More »

I’m not exactly sure when it happened, that I’d actually care about fuel economy as much as anything when reviewing a car. In a way it’s depressing. Has age tempered my enthusiasm for the automotive form, or performance driving? I was beginning to think so, until I remembered what I was reviewing – one of […] More »

Audis are well known for their foul weather abilities, which makes them ideal cars to take to the mountains in winter for a little skiing. Even if the weather is fine and the roads are clear, we’d choose an Audi over any other option (obviously) when taking any kind of trip. Of course, with ski […] More »