First Glance: When German Chefs Cook Italian December 1, 2006
Who says the world doesn’t need another six-figure midengine German-made sports car? Introduced on Wednesday: Audi R8 Is it real? Born as a racecar and reincarnated as a design study, the R8 is now ready for production. Hardly a secret, an R8 was on display on Park Avenue in Manhattan for two weeks in October, but its official North American debut was in Los Angeles. What’s the point? Lamborghini is in the same corporate family as Audi, so why not use many of the same ingredients to cook up a German Gallardo? The …
Behind the Wheel: So Late to the S.U.V. Party, but So Smartly Dressed June 25, 2006
The Q7, Audi’s first S.U.V., arrives this month and Audi expects it, in its first year, to be its second-biggest seller. IN response to mankind’s unending search for the One True S.U.V., automakers have given us vehicles that were off-road tough and on-road soft, vehicles that were long, tall or small. We’ve been offered vehicles that were square, round, creamy or chunky-style, in shapes and flavors that pandered to everyone from baby boomers to Gens X, Y and Z. All these trial runs bring to mind a line from a 1938 Marx Brothers movie, “Room Service.” Groucho is trying …