Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Performance, Audi

Ladies and gentlemen, the 2012 Audi TT RS has officially landed in the United States. And there was much rejoicing.

Audi has announced that one Don Istook has purchased the very first American-spec TT RS from Fort Worth Audi in Texas. Istook is a longtime Audi enthusiast, having raced Quattro coupes in the mid-1980s, and in more recent times, S4 and TT models.

The 2012 Audi TT RS is priced from $56,580 (excluding $875 for destination), and it marks the return of the automaker's RS performance line to Yankeeland. The last…

Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Performance, Audi, Luxury

It's been several months since Audi unveiled its latest A8 flagship sedan, and you know what that means, boys and girls: that's right, a new S8 is almost upon us.

The performance version of the luxury limousine has been spied undergoing what looks like final testing, given a lack of camouflage or body cladding on the test mule snapped in our high-res image gallery. The face looks more aggressive than the stock A8 but rather subtle and still tastefully elegant, with bigger wheels filling the wells and larger brakes in…

Berlin, Germany  2011 Michelin Challenge Bibendu. Reinhard Otten, Concept Development for Audi AG talked to Lou Ann Hammond, CEO, www.drivingthenation.com about Audi's CO2 to Natural gas at the 2011 Challenge Bibendum. Audi's intention is to make synthetic natural gas out of CO2 from biogas. But I asked Otten about using CO2 from coal, instead of trying to sequester the CO2. The United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal. Coal is filled with CO2 and unless we find a way to sequester and store it there wont be more coal use in the United States. Biogas…

    Audiâ??s new 2012 A6 debuted at this yearâ??s Detroit auto show, and Audi stated at the time that a hybrid version was in the works; the company didnâ??t promise, however, that it would come to the U.S. Fast-forward to today, and full specs on the A6 hybrid have been fully revealed; we still donâ??t know if weâ??ll get it. One clue existed in the press materials, though: Audi converted its fuel-economy numbers for the green-leaning four-door to U.S. mpg, and it nets an impressive 37 mpg combined.
    The Audi A6 hybrid combines a…

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Little big monster.

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San Francisco and Audi.

The new Audi A8 L W12.

Audi S6 will be real.