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Spy Shots: Audi S4 facelift spied on the 'Ring

Audi S4 Avant spy shots – Click above for high-res image gallery The piping-hot Audi RS4 may not be destined for consumption here in Canada, but its little brother, the S4, will continue to live on. Our spy photographers recently spotted this S4 prototype – in delicious Avant flavor – testing on the Nürburgring, showing off a newly facelifted front end. Much like the A6 and A7, the revised S4 will wear Audi's reshaped grille with slanted upper corners – a design element that will also trickle down to the base A4 and the A5. Additionally, it appears that ... Read More

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    Featured: Audi design getting big overhaul?
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    Car and Driver has an update on the design shuffle in Ingolstadt that will ultimately bring more differentiation to Audi products. Last November, Audi design chief Wolfgang Egger spoke of the need to do "something new without breaking from tradition" in Audi design, but talk at the time focused on how the Crosslane Coupe Concept would influence the new ...

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    Video: Watch two Audi RS4 Avants play Death Race with paintball
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    Nothing to see here, folks, except a 2013 Audi RS4 Avant weaponized with a high-caliber paintball canon. No, make that two of them, one black and one white, playing paintball in an abandoned aircraft hangar. At this point, there's probably not more to add than "Watch the video below" while we get on the horn to find out how to get this as a factory ...

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    Video: What's it like to go over 400 km/h in an 20-year-old Audi S4? Watch this!
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    There are an infinite number of impressive aspects to getting a 1992 Audi to clip past the 400 km/h barrier. For starters, there's the fact that Jeff Gerner managed to milk a full 1,100 horsepower from the five-cylinder S4 before shuttling the power to the ground via an all-wheel drive system without vaporizing an axle. That alone deserves a round of ...

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    Official: Audi reveals full details and specs for 2013 RS4 Avant
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    Audi has finally gotten around to serving up details on the company's 2013 RS4 Avant. Buyers can look forward to plopping their money down on a wagon with a full 450 horsepower served up by a naturally-aspirated 4.2-litre V8 engine. With 317 pound-feet of torque on hand, the German manufacturer says its new long roof can sprint to 60 mph (96 km/h) in a ...

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    Review: 2013 Audi S4
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    A Sleeper Sport Sedan That Still Keeps Us Awake At Night The always-bustling Audi stand at next week's Detroit Auto Show figures to be cluttered with a full range of eighth-generation A4 models, all of which arrive in Canada sometime between June and July. The line's real marquee model is, of course, the RS4, but that Rennsport ingredient will not be ...

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    Report: Audi discontinues manual gearbox for S4 and S5 in Europe, North American models safe
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    Here's a bit of curiosity. GT Spirit is reporting that Audi has pulled the manual gearbox option for both the S4 and the S5 in Europe. The news comes courtesy of Fourtitude, who spoke with Barry Hoch, the product planning manager for Audi of America. Hoch said that while the sportier Audi models will lose their third pedal in the EU, North American buyers ...

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    Official: 2013 Audi A4, S4 and A4 Allroad Quattro fully revealed [w/video]
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    %Gallery-137646% The Audi A4 has been the German automaker's best-selling model for 39 years running with over 10 million individual examples sold, so any sort of major update to the machine is a big deal in Ingolstadt. For the 2013 model year, Audi has bestowed its A4 with revised sheetmetal and powertrains in order to keep it at the forefront of the ...

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    Audi RS4 Avant caught on 'Ring with A4 facelift
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    Performance wagons are securely on the list of items that make our enthusiast hearts go pitter-pat. Sadly, there is a distinct lack of options in this segment, and some of the very best products never make it here to Canada. One such long-roof that long ago joined the Forbidden Fruit category is the Audi RS4 Avant, whose successor has been spied racking ...

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    Spy Shots: Audi S4 facelift spied on the 'Ring
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    The piping-hot Audi RS4 may not be destined for consumption here in Canada, but its little brother, the S4, will continue to live on. Our spy photographers recently spotted this S4 prototype – in delicious Avant flavor – testing on the Nürburgring, showing off a newly facelifted front end. Much like the A6 and A7, the revised S4 will ...

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    Audi makes it right with disgruntled customer, loans free S4 until order arrives
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    Ordering a special edition luxury vehicle from Germany can take some time. The plant needs to put you in the production queue with the rest of the orders, shipping across the Atlantic can eat up weeks and parts availability can also throw off timing. Such a protracted timeline played out for Audi forum member Datz as he waited for his brand new S4, ...