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24 moments that made the Le Mans 24hrs

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Ben Pulman, 13 June 2012 12:00

Ahead of this weekend's 80th running of the world-famous endurance race, here's CAR's countdown of the 24 most iconic men, motors and moments that have defined the 24 Heures du Mans.1923: The first Le MansThe inaugural race on 26-27 May 1923 featured 33 cars and was won by a Chenard et Walcker, covering 1380 miles at an average speed of ...

Le Mans (2012) preview guide

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Ollie Kew, 12 June 2012 12:39

It's set to be a battle of wildly-different drivetrain technologies at the 2012 24 Heures du Mans, which gets underway this weekend (16-17 June) at the illustrious Circuit de la Sarthe. With Peugeot having dropped its endurance racing programme due to budget concerns, this year's headline battle will be a straight fight between the dominant diesel Audis, and petrol Toyota ...

Why Audi motorsport bosses think F1 is irrelevant

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Whitworth, 17 May 2011 15:30

Despite being invited to advise the FIA on developing the new rules that will govern F1 from 2014 onwards, Audi is simply not interested in the sport, Ingolstadt top brass have told CAR.  'There’s a very good reason why we are not in F1,' says Wolfgang Ullrich, Audi’s motorsport boss. 'There’s no relevance to the road. Audi has always been ...

Gavin Green on the new Audi ad and engineering

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Gavin Green, 15 February 2011 15:43

Brunel! Thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters: engine, lathe and pen. (With apologies to William Wordsworth.) It’d be easy to write a good blog about bad car advertising. There are so many culprits. But a recent ad from Audi – whose campaigns are normally stand-out impressive – has finally ...

Eight reasons why we like the Audi A7

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Pulman, 03 January 2011 08:03

Just spent a few days driving Audi's new A7 in the UK, and have come away very impressed. Here's a few quick reasons why: Good point number 1: The driving position is very good: no longer do you feel the need to pull the steering wheel all the way out just to get comfortable (so often an Audi bugbear of ...

Audi's magical ever expanding range of cars

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Tim Pollard, 13 August 2010 12:22

A small aside tucked away in the press release about the new Audi A7 caught my eye: 'The A7 Sportback will project the Vorsprung durch Technik brand into yet another new segment when it joins the UK range as its 35th member in January 2011, priced from £42,925.'Strip away the marketing phraseology. Ignore the price, bang on BMW 5GT money. ...

Learning to draw all over again in the Audi A8

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Pulman, 27 May 2010 10:15

So, you’re lucky to head home for the night in Audi’s new A8, and set about trying to impress your girlfriend with its multitude of gadgets. Our car had everything from heated and cooled seats, night vision with pedestrian recognition, headlights that work with the sat-nav, adaptive cruise control that can brake the A8 to a standstill, plus speed limit ...

How to take the perfect oversteer photograph

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Tim Pollard, 16 April 2010 15:28

Poring over the photos from our May 2010 cover shoot, we were struck by a sequence of frames showing ace photographer Paul Barshon at work. We'd gathered together eight of the greatest Quattros ever conceived by Audi to celebrate 30 years of fast four-wheel drives and writer Jethro Bovingdon was out to prove a point. Namely that Quattros will drift. ...

The greatest Audi Quattros ever: CAR Magazine’s guide

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Jethro Bovingdon, 16 April 2010 14:25

The new May 2010 issue of CAR Magazine's cover story celebrates 30 years of Audi Quattros – a feature we shot at the Brands Hatch rally stage. Here's a sneak preview of what happened on the day. And don't forget to vote in our poll below, to name your favourite Audi Quattro from our shortlist.I arrive at 9.00am and all the cars are ...

Why I love my oddball NSU Ro80

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Glen Waddington, 14 January 2010 14:02

You might have seen my name attached to a few First Drives on this website and in CAR Magazine too. But I’m not always tooling about in something new. In my garage is something quite old. Something almost as old as me, and something I’d wanted to own since I was very small. It’s a 1975 NSU Ro80. A what? ...

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