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The Audi Allroad is making a return to the US!

Canvass driveways on your street. What do we see? I bet you it’s rows and rows of crossover vehicles and SUVs.

Audi has decided that for people who don’t want to exactly blend in, it would bring the Allroad back to the U.S. for the first time since 2005. Based on test drives in the Colorado Rockies, and around Denver, I can tell you that this is a great wagon for covering long interstate distances, while hauling a fair amount of stuff, in a luxurious setting.

Replacing the slow-selling A4 Avant here in the states, the Allroad is ever so slightly bigger than the A4 — a fraction of an inch when it comes to length and width, and more than 2 inches taller. Ground clearance is 7.1 inches, but this vehicle really isn’t ready to seriously go off-roading, despite its name. Yet Audi’s all-wheel drive Quattro system will get you through winter snow storms where other makes would leave you sidelined.

Under the hood, the Allroad smartly gets around with a 211-horsepower turbocharged in-line 4 that packs 258 pound-feet of torque at 1,500 rpm, tied to an eight-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. Audi says the Allroad will hit 60 mph from a dead start in 6.5 seconds and top out at 130 mph. The combo is EPA rated at 20/27 mpg on premium gasoline.

On the highway, the Allroad is a silent partner cruising quietly at anything approximating the legal limit. Anyone who has driven an Audi lately will feel right at home. It was easy to get comfortable in the standard leather seat that was a dozen ways adjustable on the driver’s side and eight ways amenable on the passenger side. Key instruments were an easy read; major controls a short reach away; and fit, finish and materials were of excellent quality.

Two adults could fit in the rear. And as is common with a wagon; the seats fold down for additional storage space. It totaled 27.6 cubic feet with the rear seats up and 50.5 with them dow, which means two people could haul a bunch of stuff in this wagon. While the interior of the test car was black, a huge sunroof helped keep things bright and cheery. The “Panoramic Sunroof with Power Sunshade” is standard equipment.

Equipment wise, all the usual suspects were present — automatic climate control, power tailgate, an audio system that will make all the right connections music-wise, navigation with voice control and so forth.

Optional equipment packages can quickly drive up the price. Just two of them on the test car totaled $6,350 – the Premium Plus and MMI/Navigation packages. That and other options plus delivery raised the out-the-door price to $47,870 from a base price on the test car of $39,600.

For that, you get a slick looking luxury wagon, all-wheel drive, good power and handling, and the ability to silently brag to the neighborhood that you don't play follow the leader.

 

Courtesy of articles.marketwatch.com

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Audi buys last Auto Union Type D twin-supercharged racer

After a great many years dying in the wilderness of the former USSR, and then spending a few more years in the hands of private collectors, the twin-supercharged 1939 Auto Union Type D is finally back home with Audi. One of the precursor companies to Audi, Auto Union, based in Zwickau, Germany, was the other Silver Arrows team (alongside Mercedes-Benz) that demolished the racing competition in the 1930s until World War II intervened.

Audi Tradition, the heritage arm of the firm, says there are five original Auto Union racers in existence. This 1939 model was specially prepped with two superchargers instead of the usual one, and won the 1939 French and Czechoslovakian Grands Prix with its 485-horsepower 12-cylinder engine and 330 kilometer-per-hour (205 mph) top speed. But Zwickau fell in the eastern portion of Germany; caught in the Russian web at the end of WWII, the stored Auto Union cars were carted back to Russia as part of German reparations.

Enter Paul Karassik, an American immigrant from Serbia, of Russian ancestry, who had watched the Auto Unions race in Belgrade just before the outbreak of war. Starting in the 1970s, he spent a decade tracking down the remains of two Auto Unions in Russia and Ukraine – this 1939 model and a 1938 Type D with a single supercharger – and finally managed to buy them. In 1990 he began commissioning their restorations, which included building completely new bodies for both, and by 1994 they were finished.

Karasssik sold the 1938 Type D to Audi in 1998, and the 1939 Type D to another collector in 2000. Audi Tradition has made that second car part of its collection, meaning it now owns three of the five originals. Scroll down for a press release with all the details on the car and the acquisition.

 

Courtesy of autoblog.com

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