A Video Tutorial from a Pro on How to Wash the Exterior of Your Car

If there is one maintenance task all car owners can carry out by themselves without any special skills, it is cleaning your vehicle.

That doesn’t mean you should go grab your mother's, wife's, neighbor's, girlfriend's or boyfriend's broom and dip it into a mix of chlorine and bleach nor should you hose down your car both inside and out – don't grin, someone actually did that to a brand new Mercedes-Benz CLS…

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Pocket Rocket 252hp Audi A1 Quattro Tested on Gravel and Tarmac

Even though Audi's quattro GmbH engineers may have developed the A1 Quattro with gravel in mind as part of its rally heritage, we somehow find it hard to believe that any one of the 333 owners of the limited production model would actually drive it off the road.

And this is why press cars and magazines exist… German publication Sport Auto took an Audi A1 Quattro to test it on both tarmac and gravel, giving us a short taste of what to expect from the upcoming issue of the magazine through a teaser video that you can watch after the jump.

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New Cadillac Ad Admits that Audi A6 is Faster than the CTS…in Price Depreciation

We are going to confess that before we pressed play on Cadillac's latest advert, we thought the concept would be similar to the brand's previous commercial that pitted an Escalade against a Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan

Disappointingly, this time, there was no race between the 2012 Cadillac CTS and the 2012 Audi A6 mid-size sedan.

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SoundBits: Audi R8 with Edo-Competition Exhaust System

Just in case you’re not sure if Edo-Competition’s exhaust system will sound like music to your ears, the German sports car tuner has released a video showing off both the standard and tweaked Audi R8’s “sound-system”. The new performance exhaust system from Edo-Competition will not only grab the attention of everybody around a car park for example, but it will also give an extra 22 Hp and 20 Nm (15 ft-lb) to the R8’s V8 unit. –Check out the video after the jump

New Iron Man Trailer Featuring the Audi R8

Earlier today we told about the launch of a new microsite by Audi dedicated to the carmaker's product placement in Paramount’s movie version of “Iron Man” (see details here). In the movie, Tony Spark drives an R8 while his female assistant Virginia, an S5. Along with the microsite the German automaker also released a special trailer that is made up of exclusive scenes from the movie and Audi R8 road shots. Check out the trailer right after the jump. -Continued

Video: Audi TTS Coupe & Roadster 272HP

The first-ever “S” model in the TT’s 10-year-long history (two generations) is equipped with a modified version of the of the 2.0-litre Turbo FSI petrol engine delivering 272PS and peak torque of 350Nm between 2,500 and 5,000rpm. Offered in both Coupe and Roadster variants, the TTS Coupe with the standard 6-speed manual gearbox (DSG offered optionally) sprints from nought to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 5.6 seconds while its top speed is electronically limited at 250 km/h or 155mph. -Click here for details and pics, follow the jump for the Video

Video: Audi R8 V12 TDi Study

As if the leaked scans of the upcoming Audi R8 V12 TDi study weren’t already enough, an official video made its way into the internet today leaving only a few things to our imagination when the concept car makes its public debut at the Detroit Show opening this Sunday (Jan. 13). The R8 V12 TDi study is powered by a V12 turbocharged diesel engine that produces 500 HP and an astonishing 1,000 Nm or 738 lbs/ft of torque. -Video after the jump

Via: Motorpasion