Audi

Lifestyle / 11 Jul 2018

Audi Q8 drives the SUV into the luxury market

Apparently the options on the table for the Audi Q8 SUV launch were the boulevards of Paris and Chile’s Atacama Desert. It’s hard to imagine a more yawning difference in atmosphere and landscape, but presumably the company thought that this...

The Audi e-tron SUV electric car on charge

Lifestyle / 10 Jul 2018

Audi e-tron SUV: see inside the marque’s first fully electric car

‘The best digital car interface,’ explains Rupert Spielvogel, ‘is the one you won’t notice; surfaces that are almost invisible.’ The Audi user interface developer is driving us around Copenhagen in a prototype e-tron. We head out to the...

Lifestyle / 29 May 2018

Hot wheels: this month’s outstanding saloons, supercars and SUVs

May was a busy month in the automobile industry, with marques far and wide launching refreshed models from well-loved lines, as well as especially eye-catching one-off releases. Stylish saloons, stoic SUVs, nimble urban navigators and stealthy supercars captured our attention at Wallpaper*...

Lifestyle / 4 May 2018

Introducing the stealthily packaged Audi RS4 Avant

The new Audi RS4 demonstrates that the attraction of stealth performance is still undiminished. Grey is the new white, the new silver, the new black. Car colour is important. Over the decades, Audi has demonstrated that it can divine the...

Lifestyle / 19 Mar 2018

Germany is leading the charge to create the world’s most innovative supercar

From hybrid supercars to hi-tech campervans, Germany is pushing auto innovation into top gear. Think AI dashboards, pure electric ideals and cult concept hits. Here’s all you need to know about the very best in German motor manufacturing and design...

Lifestyle / 13 Mar 2018

7 showstopping concept cars at Geneva Motor Show 2018

The Geneva Motor Show (8 – 18 March 2018) is quite simply the best place in the world to see the widest range of concept cars. From the big players to the small, this year’s event included all manner of...

Lifestyle / 13 Mar 2018

The best new cars launched at Geneva Motor Show 2018

Geneva used to be a place for imagining wondrous and not-so-real motor cars. The annual motor show was a stage for fictional products and fantastical scenarios. Nowadays realism appears to have taken hold. Most show cars are previewed under embargo...

Lifestyle / 5 Mar 2018

The new Audi A7 is like an advanced mobile tech gadget

A luxury grand touring coupé is bought because desired. It seduces through the promise of speed, comfort and handling. The design inside and out needs to be suggestive of the most-subtle of driving pleasures. The A7 Sportback lives up to...

Lifestyle / 15 Feb 2018

Tech-first Audi A8 leads the way to autonomous driving

We’ve always had a soft spot for the Audi A8, the German company’s flagship saloon car. Yet in an age of mega-SUVs and Crossovers, the big saloon has become something of an anachronism, a throwback to an age when might...

Lifestyle / 11 Oct 2017

The top 10 concept cars unveiled at Frankfurt Motor Show 2017

The Frankfurt Motor Show is traditionally a time for the big three German car marques to flex their muscles – their respective oversized pavilions bursting with shinny products. It can be a bit of a spectacle, overshadowing others, certainly smaller...

Lifestyle / 25 Apr 2017

Bahn storming: Germany’s industrial landscapes are still shaped by the automobile

The country’s big players are racing to stay ahead of the pack

Lifestyle / 7 Apr 2017

A car for all occasions: introducing the Audi RS3

Trying to get a handle on the Audi personality is increasingly tricky. After three decades of coasting along under the auspices of ‘Vorsprung Durch Technik’, the rest of the auto industry eventually caught up with Audi’s technocratic idealism. What’s rather...