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BMW has the X6, Mercedes-Benz has the GLE Coupe, and now Audi will introduce its Q8 to Canada in the first quarter of 2019. Foreshadowed by the Q8 sport concept unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show in March 2017, the new Q8 borrows several features from the recent A6, A7 …

PORTO, Portugal – In a luxury brand’s lineup of vehicles, the midsize sedan might have one of the toughest jobs. It has to be sophisticated to justify a lofty price, but it can’t overshadow the full-size sedan as the technology benchmark. It has to perform better than the compact sedan …

While some automakers are retiring their passenger car lineup to concentrate on SUVs, others are renewing theirs. It’s the case for the Audi brand which, in the last year, introduced the 2019 A8 sedan , the 2019 A7 Sportback and, now, the A6 sedan . A new generation of the …

MADRID, Spain – Wow! The R8’s naturally aspirated 5.2L V10 is still as impressive. It howls as revs climb smoothly all the way up to 8700 rpm in what is an instant response to our foot mashing the accelerator. The experience can only be described as nirvana. Except that in …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The new, second-generation Audi A7 is still a paragon of elegance, but now also serves as a technological showcase for the German carmaker, as it incorporates many new technologies first introduced on the Audi A8 uber-luxury sedan. So, tech made sexy is the buzzword for …

The Audi Q5 compact luxury SUV, redesigned for 2018, was named the Best New SUV of the Year by The Car Guide ’s team of journalists. The list of category winners for The Car Guide ’s Best Buys for 2018 can also be found on our website. The new Q5 …

Subcompact luxury sport-utility vehicles, equipped with all-wheel drive, fulfill the important need of safely hauling the family, but also allow consumers to look good in an upscale vehicle. The subcompact SUV segment has grown in popularity over the past few years, and new models keep being added to the market.

The fourth-generation Audi A8 is a technological tour de force . It will arrive in Canadian showrooms in the third quarter of 2018, as a 2019 model, and it will come loaded with so much technology that it will be capable of driving itself. The Audi A8 is the first …

We are on our way to Valencia, Spain for the first drive of the new 2019 Audi A8. As the flagship for the brand, the A8 is loaded with technology and is the first production model capable of Level 3 autonomous driving , something we experienced first-hand during a short …

Düsseldorf, Germany – Traffic Jam Pilot is the name Audi has given the system that allows the A8 to drive itself fully autonomously in – you guessed it – traffic jams. I’m on board the new 2019 Audi A8 with Daniel Lepczyk, an autonomous driving systems development engineer at Audi.