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An Audi Quattro S1 at full attack on a WRC stage, its four-wheel drive system throwing gravel as it corners, representing the decision that rewrote the rules of rallying

The Day Audi Decided Four-Wheel Drive Belonged in Rallying

The year is 1980. You are a World Rally Championship competitor. You have spent years developing your rear-wheel drive car to a fine edge. You have learned its limits, managed its weaknesses, extracted everything the regulations allow. You arrive at…

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A lineup of seven early electric vehicles parked in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, including a Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius Plug-in, Audi A3 e-tron, BMW i3, Renault Zoe, Volkswagen Golf GTE and Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, with a red double-decker bus passing in motion blur behind them.

EVs Jun 1, 2026

Britain Just Passed Two Million Electric Cars. It’s Also Six Points Behind Its Own Target. Only in the UK.

The United Kingdom has just passed two million registered electric cars. It is also, simultaneously, missing its own…

A 2027 Audi Q9 full-size luxury SUV photographed with its Digital Matrix LED headlights illuminated.

Audi May 23, 2026

Thirteen Years Late, Audi Brings Proper Headlights to America. The Car They’re Bolted To Runs on Petrol.

After 13 years, multiple lobbying rounds, a federal rule change, and roughly an entire generation of European drivers…

Audi spent decades being the fourth German premium brand — the one people chose when BMW felt too shouty and Mercedes too conservative — and quietly built one of the most respected engineering reputations in the industry along the way. Quattro four-wheel drive, the Sport Quattro, the original TT, the R8: these are cars that earned their status without needing to shout about it. More recently, Audi has navigated the electric transition with the sort of corporate ambivalence that suggests the boardroom and the engineering department are not always in the same meeting. Cars & Code covers Audi with appreciation for its best work and honest commentary on its more complicated recent chapters.