Audi Quattro Concept Car
Audi shows Sport Quattro homage concept
Audi Rally Cars: A History
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Audi completely revolutionised the way rally sport is played today. Prior to the 1980s, rally cars were either front or rear-wheel drives. But a rule change request from Audi asking if four-wheel drives could be allowed to compete changed the face of rallying in just a few […]
The Golf GTI’s secret Northern Irish ancestry
The town of Ballymena sits more or less in the dead centre of Northern Ireland. Halfway between Belfast and Derry, it’s a typical country market town, built around an old town square that’s been modernised with a shopping centre. Mostly, it’s famous for being the hometown of Liam Neeson but for one brief moment, Ballymena […]
Imported Classics: Porsche Carrera, The Little Yellow Job
Cars with style and backstory have always had a way of drawing people together. And for Charles Evans they have been the building blocks of a dynamic community and part of an important process of healing. “I’d always been a bit of a car nut,” 57-year-old Londoner Charles Evans tells me. “I was into custom […]
Audi QUATTRO: REVOLUTION
Take On Me. Ah Ha. I prod the Blaupunkt. The audio brand itself seems transposed from another dimension. Could it be that somewhere deep in the stereo’s analog wiring, lodged in some dusty circuitry – a mulletted Scandinavian male model’s lilt is freeing itself from thirty plus years of entrapment? Course not. Magic FM always […]
Audi Rally Sport: The People
The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut in London in 1980. We caught up with former members of the Audi UK Rally Team recall how it changed the world. Harald Demuth – Rally driver Two-time German Rally Champion Harald Demuth helped develop the quattro, campaigned Group B and 80 versions in the UK and […]
FOUR WHEELS GOOD
Audi launched the first Quattro in 1980. The cars the brand produced defined the rallying dreams of that maligned decade. An entire industry was forced to wake up to the reality that permanent Four Wheel Drive was a part of the motoring future. Forty years on, RS Audi badge is rooted still in the technical […]
The Volkswagen Beetle
My sister was delivered by VW Beetle. Or at least, a German midwife, who happened to live up the street from us. Her identity is for me completely merged with that car. And that’s the thing about the VW Beetle. There is humanity.
Car detailer
For many of us, a car wash is no longer a quick drive-through process. With lease purchases on the up in popularity and PCPs, with the option of giving the car back at the end of a term, being the most popular way of buying a car, it’s more important than ever to ensure your […]
Hot Hatch – featuring the Volkswagen Golf VR6
To whoever coined the phrase “hot hatch” – thank you. I say thank you because it’s made talking about the subject a hell of a lot easier. And as car nuts, we tend to talk about the little pocket rockets quite a lot (also a good phrase – thank you). Car manufacturers and consumers alike […]