First Drives

With the new Audi A4 allroad, built on the new A4 sedan’s B9 platform, Audi keeps on offering a high-riding wagon with unique styling as an alternative to SUVs. On the sales charts, the A4 allroad quattro certainly doesn’t qualify as a bestseller. It’s more of a niche product for …

The fifth-generation A4, due to arrive in Canada in the spring of 2016 as the 2017 model, has been completely transformed. But its body looks so much like the previous version, it’s almost as though the designers were trying to hide the new sedan’s technical advancements. The A4 is far …

"Can a crossover be cute and masculine at the same time?" This is the question I kept asking myself about the 2016 Audi Q3, the smallest—and newest—CUV in the German automaker's North American lineup. Full disclosure: I, not unlike Brad Diamond, am beginning to feel a little jaded when it …

You need only string together a few laps around a circuit like the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, near Faro, Portugal, to realize that the new Audi R8 V10 Plus has developed into a serious rival for the established exoticars. Muscle Its naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 now produces 602 horsepower, matching …

Audi was a little late in jumping onto the luxury SUV bandwagon, only introducing the Q7 in 2007. Luckily for them however, the model was an instant hit! Since then, the Q7 has only been lightly retouched, remaining mostly unchanged over the years. And funny enough, it hardly shows its …

A brief, daylong interlude in Majorca, Spain, promised to be a welcome break from the frigid grip of winter in Canada. The fleeting journey to the Balearic Islands was made even sweeter because I was going to test drive a convertible roadster, which is always a treat, especially when the …

The Audi Q3 has just made its way to Canada, but it’s been covering ground since 2011 in Europe and other markets, where the compact luxury SUV has already found more than 400,000 willing buyers. This explains why the German brand is currently giving the model a facelift, which includes …

When it comes to full-size SUVs, competition for first place is fierce among the top three German automakers. Not only do all three boast prestige—a major consideration for buyers—they also offer such outstanding quality that other contenders have a hard time keeping up. Introduced in 2011, the current generation of …

The original TT was a milestone in Audi’s history. When the TT concept car was unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show in 1995, it showed that the brand from Ingolstadt was now a major player in terms of automobile design and the rest, as they say, is history. With the …

Audi, the Ingolstadt-based automaker, has just released its first rechargeable hybrid in Europe. The Audi A3 e-tron will then makes its way to Canada by the summer of 2015. We travelled to Vienna, Austria, to meet this newcomer, which balances seemingly irreconcilable priorities: efficiency and driving pleasure. The A3 e-tron …