http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/shared/handlers/rsshandler.ashx?N=557+499&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | Reviews | Audi RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30Month 1 running an Audi RS4 Avant - the RS4 begins its stint at CAR It's probably worth dealing with the question of ride quality before we go any further. Much has been written about the unforgiving nature of the RS4’s...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-RS4-Avant-2013-long-term-rest-review/Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:10:00 GMTReviewsThis is the new Audi S3, a near-300bhp four-wheel drive hot hatch that’s as quick as a Porsche 911 and a rival for BMW’s M135i and the forthcoming Mercedes A45 AMG. Is it a VW Golf GTI turned up to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S3-2013-CAR-review/Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is new Audi RS6 Avant, a 552bhp rival to the BMW M5, Jaguar XFR-S and Mercedes E63 AMG. It’s also the second of four new Audi RS models due in 2013, but after the disappointment of the first (the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-RS6-Avant-2013-CAR-review/Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:30:00 GMTReviewsMonth 6 running an Audi A6 Allroad - the strange Audi service schedule explained No, I'm not supplementing my income with a bit of funeral directing on the side, the matching colours were simply coinicidence. The mini-me is my girlfriend’s 2004...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-A6-Allroad-30TDi-BiTurbo-2012-long-term-test-review/Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:30:00 GMTReviewsThe weight of expectation hung heavy over the RS5 when it was launched in 2010. After the RS4 saloon had come oh-so-close to beating the M3, Quattro GmbH’s first RS coupe had all the potential to finally best the BMW....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-RS5-Cabriolet-2013-CAR-review/Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:40:00 GMTReviewsSuper-fast diesels with four-rings on the nose are nothing new. The A8 and Q7 have featured rapid V8, and even V12, oil burners for years. But only now has Audi put together the underbonnet hardware to tackle BMW’s epic 35d...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-SQ5-2012-CAR-review/Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:30:00 GMTReviewsAfter three turbo RS models, Quattro changed tack and fitted the second-generation RS4 with a naturally aspirated engine. And what an engine: the Le Mans-winning R8 sports prototype donated its FSI direct-injection technology; 90% of the torque is still available...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Used-cars-how-to-buy-a-second-hand-Audi-RS4-Avant-2005-2008/Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:00:00 GMTReviewsAudi’s maiden foray into M5 territory marked more new developments for Quattro. Power still came from a twin-turbo engine (now a 4.2-litre V8 from the S6), but future traits such as silver door mirrors, RS-branded calipers and twin oval tailpipes...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Used-cars-how-to-buy-a-second-hand-Audi-RS6-Avant-2002-2004/Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:10:00 GMTReviewsRS2 Audi’s Quattro division was formed in 1983, but Chairman Mao wouldn’t have been impressed by the work ethic: it took until 1990 before an ‘S’ model appeared, and another four years for the first RS to arrive.The Audi 80...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Used-cars-how-to-buy-a-second-hand-Audi-RS2-Avant-1994-95/Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:00:00 GMTReviewsLike the RS2, the first RS4 was available only as an Avant. This time Quattro didn’t call on Porsche, but although much of the r&d was completed in-house, Cosworth Technology (then owned by Audi) was enlisted to upgrade the S4’s...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Used-cars-how-to-buy-a-second-hand-Audi-RS4-Avant-2000-20012/Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:00:00 GMTReviewsThe old RS2 – based on the Audi 80 and co-developed by Porsche –  was such a big deal, in fact, that you could be forgiven for wondering how far we’ve actually come in arriving at 2012’s RS4. A 0.1sec...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-RS4-Avant-2012-CAR-review/Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:32:00 GMTReviews  Audi A1 vs Audi Q3 - 12 July 2012 You only have to rewind ten years or so to a time when hatchbacks were the cool urban solution, and hot hatches were the fashion jewels in that fashionista crown....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-A1-16-TDI-S-line-2011-long-term-test-review/Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:51:00 GMTReviewsSeven years in the making, the largely flawless Audi A6’s only failing is that it seeks to appeal to the broadest possible customer spectrum by being so utterly anonymous that it is, frankly, almost too anonymous. A perfectly decent drive...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A7-30-TDI-Quattro-SE-S-tronic-2012-CAR-review/Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:43:00 GMTReviewsI drove the latest Audi Q3 recently. And it got me thinking. I’ve heard of compassion fatigue - whereby an endless succession of charities make such relentless Tele- and radiothon-sponsored demands on the public purse that, eventually, the well indulges...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-Q3-2012-CAR-review/Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:38:00 GMTReviewsAudi’s first new A3 for nine years is also our first glimpse at the new MQB platform, the building block of every major transverse-engined car in the VW empire for the next few years. It’s been nine years since the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A3-18-TFSi-S-Line/Mon, 21 May 2012 13:55:00 GMTReviewsTaking over and overtaking in the RS3 - 11 May 2012  As Anthony ffrench-Constant will soon be performing certain Civic duties, the CAR office has commandeered his RS3 Sportback for a couple of months before it returns to the Audi Mothership....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-RS3-2012-long-term-test-review/Fri, 11 May 2012 11:30:00 GMTReviewsWe pitted the new Porsche 991-spec 911 Carrera S Cabriolet against the Audi R8 V8 Spyder in the new May 2012 issue of CAR Magazine. And we've bolted together a quick video from our thrash around Wales to whet your appetite for the full...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Porsche-911-Cabriolet-vs-Audi-R8-Spyder-on-video/Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:50:00 GMTReviewsThis is the new S6 Quattro saloon, Audi’s rival to the BMW 550i and Jaguar XF V8. It costs £53,995, comes only with Quattro all-wheel drive and a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, and serves up 414bhp and 406lb ft. That’s a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S6-Quattro-2012-CAR-review/Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:39:00 GMTReviewsLie back, and think of China. Relaxing in the back of this new Audi A8 Hybrid, amid all the luxurious trappings of smoothed chrome, deep leather and pin sharp sound systems, I ruminated on the likely buyer of this car....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A8-Hybrid-2012-CAR-review/Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMTReviewsThe new 2012 Audi A6 Allroad is an unusual brew of contradictions and adaptations. On the one hand, this model, now in its third iteration, is a darling of the Middle England red-trousered brigade, that most conservative of social sets....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A6-Allroad-2012-CAR-review/Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:46:00 GMTReviewsThe Audi Q3 has only been around for a year, but the company continues to spin off variants at an alarming rate as it scatters new product into every which niche in the market. So here we have the latest...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-Q3-20-TDI-138bhp-FWD-SE-2012-CAR-review/Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:21:00 GMTReviewsThe Audi Urban Concept is a frantic fusion of home-made soapbox racer, bubble car, quad bike, go-kart and electric runabout, creating something all-new to tempt environmentally-conscious urbanites. CAR was granted rare access to road test (okay, scoot around a closed-off car...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-Urban-Concept-2011-CAR-review/Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is Audi’s R8 GT Spyder, and you can think of it in one of two ways: it’s a drop-top version of the R8 GT, itself a lighter and more powerful version of the already sublime R8 V10 supercar; or...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-R8-GT-Spyder-2011-CAR-review/Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:30:00 GMTReviewsThis is the new Audi S8, a £80k and 513bhp über-limo Ingolstadt believes will take on Jaguar’s XJ Supersport and Mercedes’ S63 AMG. The new S8 is purposely positioned away from the other circa-500bhp Audi limo, the A8 W12. That...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S8-2012-CAR-review/Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:21:00 GMTReviewsThe lesser-engined R8 is arguably the most conceptually perfect of Audi’s supercar family. Why? Because it’s the R8 that most closely resembles an extreme Audi without delusions of Ferrari. You can admire it as much for its honesty as for its...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-R8-V8-Spyder-2011-CAR-review/Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is the new Audi Q3, Ingolstadt’s rival for the BMW X1 and the forthcoming Range Rover Evoque. It’s the smallest Q-series 4x4 yet from Audi, and (at least initially) is only available with a selection of 2.0-litre, four-cylinder, turbocharged...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-Q3-20-TDI-Quattro-2011-CAR-review/Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:09:00 GMTReviewsConverted to the RS5 cause – 27 June 2011 What on earth is Ben Pulman and the rest of the office on? Glance through the comments below and you'd think none of us like the Audi RS5. Nothing could be further...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-RS5-2011-long-term-test-review/Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:00:00 GMTReviewsThe definition of agility – 15 July 2011 Phew. Breathless drive last night in our leviathan A8 4.2 TDI leaves me marvelling at the strange mysteries of dynamic scale. I’ll let you into a wee secret: myself and the editor had...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-A8-42-TDI-SE-long-term-test-CAR-review/Sun, 15 May 2011 11:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is the race version of Audi's R8 V10 and R8 GT supercars, the R8 LMS. Audi scooped a load of silverware in 2009 with these cars and added a class win in the Nurburging 24hrs covered in Phoenix Racing livery. For...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-R8-GT3-2011-CAR-Review/Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:05:00 GMTReviewsFrom the A3 to A8, with the TT and R8 in between, every model in Audi’s range is available with four-wheel drive. Well, expect one: the A1. The platform that underpins Audi’s supermini (and is shared with the VW Polo,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A1-Quattro-prototype-2011-CAR-review/Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:30:00 GMTReviewsThis is the Audi RS3 Sportback, a near-£40k hot hatch with 335bhp, four-wheel drive and a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. It’s the smallest, cheapest RS model ever produced by Quattro GmbH, and is a final hurrah for the A3 with a new...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-RS3-Sportback-2011-CAR-review/Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is the Audi Q5 Hybrid Quattro, the first full-production hybrid road car from Audi and our first taste of the modular turbocharged 2.0-litre petrol engine/electric motor mated to a lithium-ion battery pack. We'd better get used to this: the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-Q5-Hybrid-Quattro-2011-CAR-review/Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:36:00 GMTReviewsAudi says 90% of European buyers will take their A7s with diesel power. So what’s on offer for those who want to think out of the box? We try the supercharged 3.0 TFSi petrol version to find out. Quick recap...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A7-30-TFSI-SE-2010-CAR-review/Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:57:00 GMTReviewsThis is the Audi R8 GT, a lighter, more powerful (and thus faster) version of Ingolstadt’s finest supercar. Think of the GT as a Superleggera version of the R8, a car to take on the likes of the GT3 RS,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-R8-GT-2010-CAR-review/Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMTReviewsSo what exactly is the new Audi A7? It’s Audi’s answer to the Mercedes CLS, a luxury saloon that thinks it’s a coupé. Unlike the CLS, but like the Porsche Panamera, Aston Rapide and BMW 5-series GT, the Audi has...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A7-30-TDi-SE-CAR-review/Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:47:00 GMTReviewsAudi’s massive model expansion continues apace, and while Ingolstadt is busy offering up a plethora of new shapes and sizes (A7 Sportback, Q3) it’s also busy enhancing its existing models. The Audi A5 Sportback seemed a little odd when it...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S5-Sportback-2010-CAR-review/Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 GMTReviewsAs promised we’ve got our hands on a different Audi A1 model, the most basic car I could find on the launch: a 1.2 manual. This being a press launch of course, it still had sat-nav and 16s rather than...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A1-12-TFSI-2010-CAR-review/Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:55:00 GMTReviewsMove over Mini – the new Audi A1 is finally here. It only took them 10 years to catch up with BMW's success story. You have to wonder why it took so long for the A1 to come to market....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A1-14-TFSi-2010-new-CAR-review/Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:08:00 GMTReviewsThe Audi RS5, one of the most exciting prospects of 2010, has been driven by CAR. With 444bhp, a 4.2-litre V8 petrol engine that winds up to an 8500rpm redline, and four-wheel drive, Ingostadt¹s new coupe looks to have the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-RS5-2010-video-road-test/Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:01:00 GMTReviewsFor most people, you’d think an all-wheel drive estate with 572bhp and 479lb ft of torque was quite enough. Not German tuner Abt, which has tweaked the Audi RS6 to 690bhp and 590lb ft. ABT, you say? It’s Abt, surname...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-RS6-2010-by-Abt-CAR-review/Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:51:00 GMTReviewsIt's a fair reflection of the burgeoning Audi range that the new Audi R8 V10 Spyder you see here is comfortably over £100k. This maximum R8 is the most expensive regular series production Audi ever, at £112,500, so it'd better...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-R8-V10-Spyder-2010-CAR-review/Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:51:00 GMTReviewsI didn’t realise Audi was doing a long-wheelbase A4. Is there no niche left unexplored? A4? This is the new 2010 Audi A8, Ingolstadt’s technological flagship, a limo built around a supercar-style aluminium spaceframe and boasting the sort of toys...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A8-42-TDi-SE-2010-web-drive/Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:00:00 GMTReviewsEven though Audi is seemingly hellbent on producing a different model for each and every one of its 100-year history, you’d be forgiven for questioning the imposition of five-door hatchback status on anything quite as pretty as the original A5...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A5-Sportback-20-TDI-CAR-review/Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:01:00 GMTReviewsAudi doesn’t make many RS-badged cars. Since 1992 it has only applied them to five high-performance, low-volume models: the original RS2 estate, and two versions each of the RS4 and RS6. Each had a monstrous engine shoe-horned into a saloon...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-TT-RS-Coupe-2009-CAR-review/Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:30:00 GMTReviewsAudi has given the latest A4 Avant the Allroad treatment by raising the ride height and adding some butch cladding. But is it just a load of marketing rubbish? And why wouldn’t you have a Q5? What’s involved in turning...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A4-Allroad-30-TDI-2009-CAR-review/Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:36:00 GMTReviewsLong-term update – 25 March 2009 Had a very interesting discussion with my wife yesterday about the TT. What surprised me was her opinion on the diesel engine. Having tooled around in the TT for a while, she has no...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-TT-TDI-long-term-test-review-280109/Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:00:00 GMTReviewsWhile we’ve all been fussing and fawning over the new Audi S5 Cabriolet, it’s not actually that relevant – just 250-300 are expected to be sold in the UK each year. Instead it’ll be the 2.0-litre petrol and diesels that’ll...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A5-20-TDI-Cabriolet-2009-CAR-review-090309/Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:26:00 GMTReviewsThe Audi bandwagon moves on and its latest model is the new A5 Cabriolet. At one end of the scale you can have it with a goody-two-shoes 2.0-litre TDI (complete with stop/start technology), and at the other end is the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S5-Cabriolet-2009-CAR-review/Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:48:00 GMTReviewsMeet the £100k Audi: the R8 V10. Yes, it looks suspiciously similar to the £77k V8-powered version, but spotters can tell it apart thanks to those new 19-inch rims, thicker side blades, revised strakes on the front and rear bumpers...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-R8-V10-2009-first-drive/Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:01:00 GMTReviewsLong term update - 29 December 2008 Yes, it really did fit. Even I was amazed when the Allroad swallowed the 6ft fridge freezer I’d bought second-hand when we moved house recently, saving me the hassle and expense of hiring a van....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/Long-term-tests/Audi-Allroad-30-TDi/Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:30:00 GMTReviews