- Mid-engine sports car serves as safety car
- Début for Audi R8 racing taxi
Double début at the Norisring in Nuremberg: This weekend, the Audi R8 will be used as the official DTM safety car for the first time – and as a racing taxi as well.
quattro GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AUDI AG handed over two of the 420-hp mid-engine sports cars to the German Motorsport Association (DMSB) on the occasion of the “Norisring Speed Weekend”. The two Audi R8 cars were prepared specifically for use as safety cars by quattro GmbH at the Neckarsulm plant. “There were not many modifications required, though, because the R8 possesses the genes of a perfect sports car,” says Werner Frowein, managing director of quattro GmbH.
Another Audi R8 was carefully prepared by quattro GmbH for use as a racing taxi.
You must read the last paragraph in the article… *smirk
- Audi A4 2.0 TDI runs on 3.44 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers
- All eleven Audi A4 2.0 TDI models reach the finish without refueling
- Fuel consumption between 3.44 and 3.65 liters per 100 km
20 randomly selected readers of a motoring magazine and a team of two from Audi fully exploited the efficiency potential of the new Audi A4 2.0 TDI with an output of 88 kW (120 hp) in order to drive from Basel to Vienna and back on a single tank of fuel. All eleven teams made it to the end and still had between five and nine liters (1.32 and 2.38 US gallons) of diesel left over. Continue reading ‘Audi: Efficiency marathon ends after 1,650 kilometers’
Published June 28, 2008
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Norisring is the only street race on the DTM calendar
- 14:16 - End of the session. Spengler claims pole from Green, Di Resta, Scheider, Tomczyk, Kristensen, Schneider and Ekström.
- 14:14 - Behind Spengler and Green, Di Resta is third with 47.969.
- 14:13 - Bruno Spengler counters and claims back the lead with 47.785 seconds.
- 14:13 - Bruno Spengler counters and claims back the lead with 47.785 seconds.
- 14:13 - Jamie Green is now first with 47.963 seconds.
- 14:09 - Bruno Spengler on top: 47.994, Timo Scheider moves up into second place with 48.058.
- 14:09 - Jamie Green is leading with 48.228 seconds.
- 14:07 - Bernd Schneider is the first driver to go out on the track.
- 14:06 - Start of the third and final qualifying heat of nine minutes.
- 14:00 - Timo Scheider remains fastest from Bruno Spengler, Jamie Green, Bernd Schneider, Martin Tomczyk, Mattias Ekström, Paul di Resta and Tom Kristensen.
Continue reading ‘DTM: LIVE Qualifying from Norisring’
Published June 27, 2008
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We are so glad the DTM is back!
- Mattias Ekström quickest in first test on Friday
- New Audi A4 DTM fast straight away
- Entire field within eight tenths of a second
Mattias Ekström quickest in first test on Friday Title defender Audi managed a good start to its “home race” at the Norisring: In the first test on Friday morning, defending DTM Champion Mattias Ekström in his Red Bull Audi A4 DTM set the best time. In the afternoon, the Swede, in fourth place, was merely 197 thousandths of a second slower than last year’s winner Bruno Spengler (Mercedes). Continue reading ‘DTM: Good start for Audi at the Norisring’
Rally dos Sertões 2008
Great news from Volkswagen Motorsport! We had a good time watching the guys compete and win. There were 5 Mitsubishi L200’s in the Top 10 but the Race Touareg 2 is an incredible machine but lets not leave out the driver teams of Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz and Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford.
Giniel de Villiers & Dirk von Zitzewitz catch air in the Volkswagen Race Touareg 2Commanding one-two win for Volkswagen: At the Rally dos Sertões the factory duos Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (RSA/D) as well as Mark Miller/Ralph Pitchford (USA/RSA) captured first and second place overall. Continue reading ‘Rally dos Sertoes: Volkswagen celebrates one-two win with Race Touareg in Brazil’
Published June 27, 2008
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- Compressor and direct injection – a compelling duo
- 213 kW (290 hp), 420 Nm and outstanding efficiency
- Superb power from idle speeds up, spontaneous torque buildup
Powerful, spontaneous and ultra-efficient: this is the new top version in Audi’s V6 engine range. The 3.0 TFSI develops 213 kW (290 hp) and a huge 420 Nm (309.78 lb-ft) of torque. It combines two state-of-the-art technologies in perfect style – gasoline direct injection and compressor supercharging. The hi-tech V6 will go into production later in the year.
Continue reading ‘The new 3.0 TFSI: Hi-tech V6 with compressor supercharging’
Volkswagen has won the international competition ‘Golden Drop of Oil 2008′ for its innovative engine-gearbox combination, the powerful 90 kW TSI engine and the new 7-speed DSG gearbox. The energy and environment prize is awarded annually by the German automobile club ‘Kraftfahrer-Schutz e. V. (KS)’. The club awards this prize for technical developments in passenger cars which make a significant contribution towards reducing fuel consumption and safeguarding the environment. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen wins the ‘Golden Drop of Oil 2008′ award for energy and environment’
Published June 27, 2008
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DTM is BACK!! Audi is starting right where they left off and goes 1-2-3 in the first set of test this monring.
Martin Tomczyk (#2 / Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Red Bull Audi A4 DTM 2008)Mattias Ekström set the fastest time in the first test of the DTM at the Norisring. With 49.058 seconds, the Swede outpaced his team-mate, DTM points’ leader Timo Scheider by 0.006 seconds. In the closing stages, Tom Kristensen moved up into third place and completed the trio from Ingolstadt out in front. DTM record champion was the fastest driver with an AMG Mercedes C-Class in fourth place. The German was 0.136 seconds down. Continue reading ‘DTM: The champion sets the first fastest time at the Norisring’
“The ‘Beetle’, the 356 and the 911 Brought World Fame to a Stuttgart District
1958 Ferry Porsche in the assembly hall in Stuttgart- Zuffenhausen in front of the model series of the 356 AIt was on June 26, 1938 that Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche KG, as the enterprise was then called, moved from Kronenstrasse 24 in the center of Stuttgart to newly-built premises in the district of Zuffenhausen. In May 1937, Ferry Porsche had already acquired a site there at the address Spitalwaldstrasse 2 (as it then was), thus determining the location of the later Porsche factory. 70 years on, the building newly completed in 1938 still forms a central part of the factory complex in Zuffenhausen. Continue reading ‘The heart of Porsche has been beating in Zuffenhausen for 70 years now’
The new Bentley dealership in the heart of Russia´s elegant northern capital on the Neva is the third in this emerging key market. Together with its Russian partner Mercury Group Bentley Motors hosted an exclusive opening party in the garden of the Petropavlov Fortress.
Continue reading ‘Grand Opening of Bentley St. Petersburg Marks’
