Daily Drive: Audi debuts lightweight TT ultra quattro

HOME   |   CAR NEWS   |   CAR REVIEWS   |   RACING   |   AUTO SHOWS   |   VIDEOS   |   COLLECTOR   |   SUBSCRIBE Thursday, April 25, 2013                  The TT ultra quattro is a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder-powered coupe that began life as an internal... Audi reveals TT ultra quattro Audi has taken inspiration from its motorsport activities in creating a new lightweight concept version of the TTS quattro. It will form the centerpiece of a display at parent company Volkswagen's 2013 Wörthersee fan meet and greet in Austria...   XCar compares BMW M3 GTS with E30 M3 Our friends over at XCar posted their comparison of the 1986 BMW M3 and the current generation E92 M3 GTS. These are two cars sharing the same lineage that couldn't be...   Project Car Hell, '80s Detroit Turbo Muscle Edition: Buick Grand National or Mustang SVO? The last time the gates to the Hell Garage creaked open, you were offered the choice of two unsavory-yet-overpowered engine-swap projects involving a pair of 1980s cars with allegedly bolt-in doubling or...   Renault Twizy gets the Formula One treatment Renault has applied the state-of-the-art kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) used in its Formula One drivelines to the pint-sized Twizy electric car. The result? A new zero-emission concept whose claimed 0-62-mph...   One lap of the Web: Syphilis, a scary monster and one huge remote-controlled car We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we’re not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there’s more out there than we’d ever be able to cover, here’s our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about. -- ...   2013 Chevrolet Sonic RS review notes EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: How nice to bring this GM product home to the community where it was built (at the GM Orion plant), made even nicer because for the first time in about a lifetime, this is a no-excuses GM product. Oh, and it’s a small car that requires no excuses --...   Kenseth penalty shows NASCAR will not tolerate teams bending engine rules If anyone had doubt that NASCAR isn't serious about keeping the Sprint Cup Series on as level of a playing field as possible, Wednesday's huge penalties against Matt Kenseth, crew chief Jason Ratcliff and team owner Joe Gibbs ...   Fisker, Energy Department face tough Congressional hearing on federal loans Struggling Fisker Automotive took a bludgeoning Wednesday on Capitol Hill from top congressional Republicans who compared Fisker to failed automotive startups of the past and lambasted the Department of Energy for allowing the electric car producer to draw down nearly $200 million in taxpayer-...   Racing TV listings for NASCAR, NHRA, Grand-Am for weekend of April 26-28 Here's the television broadcast times (EDT) for this weekend's racing action, which includes historic live coverage of the NHRA at Royal Purple Raceway near Houston, Texas, along with NASCAR Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series action from Richmond.... You May Have Missed...   Daytona, Talladega to undergo changes in fencing following Larson crash at Daytona Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Speedway -- the two fastest oval superspeedways on the NASCAR circuit -- will have eight new, reinforced crossover gates when the NASCAR series goes to Talladega in May, and returns to Daytona in July, according to announcements made in a teleconference...   Toyota goes dynamic with ME.WE concept Toyota revealed its funky looking ME.WE electric concept on Wednesday. The “anti-crisis” vehicle was designed in collaboration with French architect Jean-Marie Massaud. The ME.WE makes its debut at Le Rendez-vous Toyota, the company's brand-experience center in Paris.The aim of the ME....   Life in the fast lane: John Force's Autoweek blog Hey, Autoweek readers! I'm happy to be onboard blogging for you, and I am having the best time racing with my daughters this season. I used to say NHRA drag racing took my family away for me for so many years, but now I have them all back -- thanks to them. My oldest daughter, Adria, runs the money ...   2014 Chevrolet Spark EV rated at 119 mpg General Motors says its Chevrolet Spark EV will get the equivalent of 119 mpg in combined city and highway driving, the best efficiency of any U.S. car sold to retail buyers.The 2014 Spark EV, which will be launched this summer in California and Oregon, will have an EPA-rated range of 82 miles when ...   Motorcycle deaths spike in 2012 Motorcycle fatalities rose by 9 percent in 2012, totaling more than 5,000 deaths, according to data released Wednesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association.The GHSA cites many reasons for the increase in lives lost, including an increase in motorcycle use overall. An improving economy...   Denny Hamlin ruled out for Richmond NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Denny Hamlin entered Wednesday optimistic he'd return to his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota this weekend at Richmond. He left the day with a tweet that ended those hopes.Wednesday evening, Hamlin took to Twitter to announce he'll miss his fourth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race while...   Is horsepower the ultimate luxury? -- Video Bench Racing Autoweek editors discuss the question of whether horsepower equates to luxury. Horsepower is a definite desire for some, but does it count as an extravagance?... CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the Autoweek Daily Drive E-mail or to sign up for other Autoweek e-mail products. IMPORTANT: Please add Autoweek.com to your E-mail Address Book to ensure you will continue to receive our newsletters. Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. You will not receive a reply if you use this e-mail address. Crain Communications, 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207.