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High on the steroids with the booming horsepower and very low quarter-mile times are enormous and all, but in an era when speed comes less pricey than ever, any manufacturer that predicts to launch a successful 6-figure sports car out of the blue had better bring impressively unique to the table. The mid-engine 2008 Audi R8 could be just the right thing for any manufacturer.

Certain design features of the R8 might convey to mind a Porsche, a Corvette or the late released Acura NSX, but because the R8 carries a punchier 4.2-liter V8 in its mid rib, It sends reaping out 420 hp to all 4 wheels, It offers 2 transmissions and hugs it all in an aluminum space frame enclosing, this Audi clearly has its own thoughts and is definitely attitude loaded. The only car coming closer to that depiction wears the badge Lamborghini Gallardo no surprise, as that mid-engine is exotic and provides the indispensable blueprints for this one. Audi’s $70 grand lower price tag takes care that the competition will be minimal.

Yet the R8 is indisputably fast. 60 miles per hour comes up right in mere 4.4 seconds, a quoted top end speed of 187 mph arrives never anytime later, and tire grip approaches a full grip all par for this highly potent ripper of a performance class car. Among the larger differences: the R8 lets its driver take advantage of that speed through a 6-speed manual or “R-tronic” transmission (Audi’s newest take on the clutch-less manual); Audi’s Quattro all-wheel drive leaves the hard driving with an extra loaded degree of shoot of confidence; and perhaps above all, the R8 packs together Audi’s accustomed concessions to comfort rather than mere raw performance. Consider its advanced, ride-friendly electromagnetic shock absorbers, for instance.

Posted September 28, 2008 Comments(0)

When wheedles and designers with ABT Sports line propose to tune an SUV, you can be in no doubt that the consequence will be an astonishing vehicle. That has been the casing with the Touareg, AS7 and Tiguan - and that will be sustained with the new-fangled ABT Q5. The ABT Q5 impresses, choral and greater stance from all angles. The frontage skirt with the incorporated under ride fortification finds its correspondent in the stern skirt, which, in an extremely graceful way, also hides the tow bar extendable for employ. The potent front grille, the fender conservatories and the energetic door strip additions form a unit. The rear wing, the 4-pipe-rear muffler and the BR wheel rim in size 20-inch also vigorous in optimally into the well-designed overall picture. The ABT Q5 is certainly a car for all occasions: No matter whether in obverse of a luxury hotel or a beer garden, this means of transportation fits in everywhere. When a power advance is made, postponement and brakes, too, have to be accustomed to the augmented power. That is why Abt is offering a very well tuned tie together for the Q5: suspension springs, lessening of the car’s center of gravity or also the well-proven ABT Level Control, an electronic lowering for the CDC air suspension.

Posted September 2, 2008 Comments(0)

Audi opted the Beijing Motor Show as its venue for the introduction of its new-fangled compacted SUV, the Q5 – a fitting venue specified that the Q5 will be administered the 1st Audi or even the first German unit for that matter to be completely produced in the facilities in China for export to the places around the world.

The Audi Q5 prides for its capacity of the lowest drag coefficient in its category and with relevance to Audi, it is also the ‘sportiest’ vehicle in its rank. As one would predict to expect from the likes of Audi, the Q5 gets all the nicest equipment range, counting along a seven-speed S-tronic twin fold-clutch transmission with rocker switches mounted aboard the steering wheel and Audi’s very true drive select control arrangement.

There are 3 variants of engines accessible in the Q5 that includes the likes of one petrol variant and two TDI units that’s typically diesel and they all profit from direct-injection and turbo charging unit. The 2.0-litre TFSI has been re-programmed and now pumps out a potentially killing performance of 155 kW per 211hp along with a very vigorous 350Nm of torque. The speeding potency of the units are, 0 to 100 km/h rush takes a reputable 7.2 seconds and the same engine is competent and even efficient enough to return 8.5 L/100km as its mileage, a definite service to the one who shells so much to take home this AUDI.

Posted May 12, 2008 Comments(0)