Audi Sport is Working on 5 New RS Models

Audi Sport’s new head of Technical Development, Oliver Hoffman, has confirmed that the team is working to get five new RS models onto the roads by 2020. That would raise the total from 11 to 16 over the next three-or-so years.

Although Hoffman did not confirm which models would be getting the RS treatment, comments made by his predecessor, Stephan Reil, do make it clear that the RS models will come out alongside new Audi models.

“In the past, you had the car, the RS model, right at the end of the lifecycle,” Reil told Motor1, but now they’ve moved to working with Ingolstadt, creating the new RS models as their regular counterparts are being created.

Right now the A7 and A6 are both in development and expected to come out soon, and reports already suggest that the former will get a 700 hp, hybrid RS version. Comments by Stephan Winkelmann, meanwhile, make it clear that the brand is interested in RS SUVs, like an RS Q3, for instance. The Q8, too, would make a solid foundation for Audi Sport.

Hoffman just started in his role on October 1. He was promoted from powertrain development, where he worked on the R8’s V10. Before that, like Winkelmann, he was at Lamborghini.

[source: Motor1]

The post Audi Sport is Working on 5 New RS Models appeared first on VWVortex.

from VWVortex http://ift.tt/2xiUQJ4
via IFTTT

Comments

Watch: The Stig Drives (nearly) Seven Generations of Golf GTI

With Volkswagen announcing “major” updates to the Golf, it seems an appropriate time to look back on what we’ve had so far. And who better to guide us through the rich history of the most popular European car ever made than Ben Collins, the former Stig? Some say he’s never met a GTI he doesn’t love, and that he can’t grow any of his own facial hair. All we know is … Ben Collins is actually a pretty solid presenter. Working his way through seven generations of the GTI (skipping over the Mk6) Collins tells us a little bit about each one and matches each mark to its corresponding facial hair craze. The Mk1 GTI for instance, is light and quick, but can lose traction under hard acceleration (in heavy rain). Despite that, Collins calls the Mk1 a “pure gem.” The Mk4, meanwhile, is a powerful return to form after the perhaps too sensible Mk3. Collins ends in the only way he could, with the Mk7, which accelerates faster than a Lamborghini Countach and is all kinds of wonderful. Watch, ...

Watch: The Story of the Ads that Made VW Big in America

The ads for the original Beetle are almost as famous and well-loved as the Beetle itself. Looking back now it’s easy to forget, though, just how easily things could have wrong. A new short from Dial M Films tracks the history of those early Volkswagen ads that sold America on the people’s car. The story, of course, begins with the visionary agency that made the ads: Doyle Dane Bernach (DDB). As a popular agency for Jewish products, no agency was more aware of the implications of Volkswagen, and no one, it seems, was more skeptical of the brand than DDB. “Remember Those Great Volkswagen Ads?” from Dial M Films on Vimeo . William Bernbach, though, was adament that the firm take the client, probably as a way of attracting other lucrative automotive clients. Saddled with a client that he didn’t want, art director Helmut Krone says in the film that he originally came up with ads that were all wrong. Krone tried to do what other manufacturers did and was intent on selling the Beetle ...

Watch: The Zerouno Cruis’n USA

ItalDesign is drumming up excitement for its new supercar based around the same 5.2-liter Audi V10 that powers the R8. Naturally, it hit the road for a cruise around California last week to celebrate Monterey Car Week. There isn’t much in the way of V10 noise—which is a real shame given the sound it makes—but you do at least get a good look at the car inside and out in this video. With a body made entirely of carbon fiber and designed to be as aerodynamic and light as possible, ItalDesign figures that it will be good for a 0-60 time of just 3.2 seconds. “We put it our best skills into the production of the first car,” said Massimo Bovi, head of pre-series production, when the Zerouno was first unveiled in Geneva earlier this year. “Using some of the finest productions methods and engaging our high-skilled workers.” The car features clever aero tricks gleaned from single-seat racing, like a y-duct up front to improve downforce and turn-in. Available in a number of trim levels, the...

Vorderman Volkswagen

Search This Blog