How has Audi come so far in such a short time? Three decades ago, they were the Volvo makers of today, with no real prestige in the luxury world or credible hyper-performance cars.
If you ask the marketing men in Ingolstadt, they'd tell you a little story about Vorsprung durch Technik, and they would be right, very right. Audi has been dominating the Le Mans racing scene the past few years in their quattro cars and are trickling down that technology into road cars.
But what if the 2013 Audi e-tron quattro race car really was a road car. The world would look a little bit like this – people going to and from work in it, walking their dogs and even taking it on fishing adventures.
Thankfully, we don't have to put up with the stiff chassis and lack of practicality if we want a mental Audi because there's always the RS6 Avant. he sexy estate puts on a great show in matte gray, doing its impersonation of a family man's racer.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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