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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Identify This: Four Production Audi Models

Since you seemed to have enjoyed the previous quiz with the classic Alfa Romeo models (see here), we thought we would come up with a new series of our own featuring a different automaker each week.

For this puzzle, we chose the brand with the four rings from Ingolstadt, which is more commonly known as Audi.

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Audi Confirms U.S. Launch of New A3 Sedan for late This Year, Asks if it Should Bring Hatch and Cabrio

We already knew that Audi has plans to build the first ever sedan version of its A3 series and that it would come to North America. What we weren’t sure about was the timing.

In a posting on its Facebook page today, the German automaker revealed that the A3 Sedan "is confirmed for U.S. release late this year".

What this means is that we will likely see the four-door version of the new A3 making its debut at the 2012 Paris Motor Show in September, and/or at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show in November, with sales to start around December.

The A3 Sedan will be based on a stretched version of the latest A3 hatchback's new MQB modular platform architecture, with the two models also sharing the same interior design and engine lineup.

Audi has previewed the looks of the A3 sedan twice in the past year; the first time at the 2011 Geneva Salon with the sporty looking and very near production A3 Concept sporting a 402bhp (408PS) 2.5-liter turbo'd inline-five, and the second time with the A3 e-Tron gasoline-electric hybrid study at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show.

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Audi Releases UK Pricing of 2013 A3 Hatch, Plus New Gallery with 89 Photos

It has been a while since we last heard any news about the third generation Audi A3, but today, the German premium automaker released UK pricing for the three-door hatchback model, while we've also added a new photo gallery.

On the road prices start at £19,205 and go up to £26,560, with Audi UK accepting orders now for first deliveries in September.

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Vilner Gives a Nod32 to ESET with Promotional Audi A3

One of Slovakia's most successful companies, IT security specialist ESET, turned to Bulgaria's most well-known tuning firm, Studio Vilner, for the creation of a promo car for the upcoming Software World Conference.

The car of choice was a first generation Audi A3, which spent two months at Vilner's main facility. ESET, which is most famous for its Nod32 antivirus software package, wanted to the car to be dressed in the company's corporate colors.

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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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Johan de Nysschen Leaves Audi of America to Lead Infiniti's Worldwide Operations

Following the news of Johan de Nysschen's sudden resignation from the helm of Audi of America on Friday after almost two decades with the company, including seven years as its CEO, Nissan Motor Co. today announced that it has named the 52-year-old executive as senior vice president of the Infiniti brand worldwide. Read more »