All the hubbub around Audi's Green Police Super Bowl ad surrounded the Nazi-esque name when, in reality, the "Green Police" are merely fascist for the environment. We wonder how many people will miss the joke.   ...read more

Hot off winning the Green Car of the Year award, Audi is getting serious about the diesel burning boosted version of the A3 TDI compact hatch with their latest Superbowl commercial. The Green Police are out to crack down on every kind of consumer waste from shoppers using single use plastic bags at the supermarket to police drinking out of Styrofoam cups.   ...read more

[Note: This piece first ran in May 2007. It seems particularly relevant again in light of the current Toyota unintended acceleration (UA) situation. But please note that the circumstance that caused the Audi UA are very different. In the early eighties, electronic gas pedals and complex engine controls and other interfaces such as with ABS/brakes [...]   ...read more

This series features plenty of junked vehicles in not-so-frozen California, but we're really missing out on the full junkyard experience by not visiting Omaha! So let's head to Nebraska, where your flesh will stick to engine blocks in the winter if you're not careful. Alfasud took a bunch of photos at his local junkyard: It's been a rough last few months here in Nebraska. We've had several snowsto   ...read more

Video show production of the A1 at Audi's Belgium plant. Audi claims the A1 will expand the premium brand segments into small, compact cars.   ...read more

Premium cars are a hard sell? Not in China. The Chinese developed a ravenous appetite for Germany’s luxury brands. In January, all three German premium makes, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes, more than doubled their sales, reports Das Autohaus. Leader of the luxo-pack is Audi with 16.798 units sold in January in China, up 115 percent compared [...]   ...read more

Our spies have caught the Audi A1 undergoing a final round of testing before it is unveiled to the media next week.   ...read more