I was a talkative child. Don’t fear the A4’s fancy bits: they’re all fairly intuitive, and you won’t need to hire your university math professor to figure out how to work all this stuff. And (presumably) to give themselves an occasional break from my non-stop yammering about everything in the world around me, mom and dad often treated m

Sometimes, it’s all in the details. A tremendous amount of very fancy stuff happens perpetually beneath the floor-pan, but what you feel from the driver’s seat is easy to explain: you virtually never feel anything at all. Smash the brakes on a snowy road, and the action of the ABS system is virtually inaudible, as the clickity-click vib

Vehicle Type Sedan, wagon History/Description The “8W” generation of the Audi A4 arrived for model year 2017, meaning that the previous “B8” generation A4 has moved fully into used car territory. Look for turbocharged power and Quattro AWD on most models, and numerous model grades and trim levels, backed by various optional equipment packa

Venice, Italy – A city renowned for its canals seems the most unlikely of places to hold a launch event for a new sports sedan; even less so when it’s one as important to the brand as Audi’s A4 is. Despite the obvious family resemblance, the 2017 model’s body is 99 percent new. But that’s exactly where the Ingolstadt-based company unle

As we lose more and more wagons (and manual transmissions, for that matter) with every generation of cars launched in North America, we at Autos.ca must do everything in our power to cherish each and every long-roof we can lay our hands on. Audi has a legacy of wagons, Avant in Audi-speak that is rivaled by few, though the truly delectable hot-rod

If we were to tell you this ninth-generation Audi A4 sedan is bigger, lighter, more powerful, more efficient and further tech-laden, would you believe us? Of course you would. This is an important model for the automaker, as one in four Audis sold is an A4. While hardly exciting, the 2017 A4 is a handsomely chiseled four-door, and the new sno

We can go on and on about the gorgeous Audi wagons that we want (and they are many), but the cries of North American long roof aficionados do not a business case make, and Audi is happy to leave the traditional wagon market to BMW, Mercedes and Volvo. What we get is a wagon with body cladding and raised suspension based on Audi’s superb A4 line, at

We, as North Americans have no one to blame but ourselves for this. At some point, somewhere, someone decided to SUV all the things and that station wagons were no longer cool. So instead of receiving the sexy (that’s right, we called it sexy) Audi A4 Avant wagon introduced at last year’s Frankfurt Auto Show, we are permitted to have only the upcom

Audi's introduction of the A4, for the 1996 model year, finally gave the BMW 3 Series a serious competitor in a growing luxury compact car market. Just like a 3 Series, an A4 is a driver-centric sedan with attractive styling lines that are clean and simple, yet distinctive. Unlike a 3 Series, drive goes to an A4’s front wheels or to all four whee

There were two big reveals at the Audi stand in Detroit today, one a forward-looking concept and the other a practical and realistic model that we will be driving in the years to come. First, a taste of the future that Audi envisions. The H-tron Quattro concept is an alternate version of the battery powered E-tron quattro , this time with an ad

BOLZANO, Italy – The roads in this town, nestled up hard against the base of the Alps, curve up and down the inclines like sinewy snakes. It was a very long way to go to look at what is, essentially, a facelift for the 2020 Audi A4 . But once on those roads, it was also a refresher of why the A4 is among the bestsellers for the company.   It

Audi recently unleashed journalists in northeastern Italy to experience the upcoming 2017 Audi A4 and it became quickly apparent that the new car is going to set new standards in many regards. Having grown in size, the new A4 remains competitive with the likes of the BMW 3 series , Mercedes-Benz C-class and Lexus IS . While the new car

Building on the success of the current generation and the freshly launched 2017 A4 sedan , Audi returns to the jacked-up-wagon crossover segment with the A4 Allroad Quattro. The Allroad is due to arrive in the Canadian market in late 2016, and expect similar pricing over the sedan as the current Allroad to the previous A4 sedan, so expect it to ra

Audi took the occasion of the 44th annual Tokyo Motor Show to show off a couple of key production cars and a concept that has us drooling - it's a wagon of course. The headliner for the Japanese market is no doubt the new 2017 Audi A4 , which is bigger, lighter, more efficient and looks even sharper. Okay, it looks almost exactly the same, with

Audi says 9,700 examples of its A4 sedan , A5 coupe and Q5 crossover models sold in 2008 and 2009 have airbag control modules with faulty power supply components . In these cars, that component could corrode, causing a lack of electrical conductivity and a nonfunctional airbag control unit. That would trigger an airbag warning light, and T