Tag: Audi

Are all-wheel drive sports cars underrated?

Audi TT RS

Back in the 1980s, car manufacturers were busy thinking of the next big thing in the sports car world, and some clever German folk had an idea. Why don’t we connect all of the wheels to the engine? Why don’t we make our next sports car all-wheel driven? So, they did. Waves made by the […]

Audi 80 GT: ringing the changes

Despite the proliferation of go-faster models in its current range, Audi’s name hasn’t always been synonymous with sporting cars. A manufacturer of models in the deluxe mid-size class during the 1960s, a saloon car which focused on blatant out and out performance was not only an alien concept to the Ingolstadt company but many other […]

How the NSU Ro80 created modern Audi

NSU Ro80 range

If not for this beautiful, elegant piece of saloon design, we would have no modern-day Audi, because the NSU Ro80 was, in essence, the Genesis of the now-mighty German brand. Of course, Audi’s original beginnings lay in the combined Auto Union of the 1930s, when Horch, DKW, Wanderer and Audi came together to try and […]