World First · Performance Hybrid · Electromechanical Torque Vectoring The New Audi RS 5: A Performance Hybrid That Actually Changes Everything Forget what you think you know about hybrid performance cars. The new Audi RS 5 pairs plug-in electrification with a world-first electromechanical torque vectoring system at the rear axle — and the result may…
First Drive · 510 PS PHEV · The Fast Estate Evolved The Audi RS 5 Avant: The 510-HP Hybrid Hammer That Rewrites the Wagon Rulebook The V8 is gone. The RS 4 badge is dead. In its place sits a 5,200-pound plug-in hybrid V6 estate that claims to handle like a canyon carver. Has Audi…
World First · Performance PHEV · Audi Sport · 2026 Audi RS 5 Avant Review: 639 Horsepower, Electric Range, and a World-First Drivetrain — The Estate Car That Changes Everything Audi Sport just built its first-ever high-performance plug-in hybrid. It does nought to 100 in 3.6 seconds, hauls a full boot load of luggage, and can…
Performance Review · 2024 Upgrade · Nürburgring Record Holder Audi RS 3 Sportback: The Compact That Owns Its Class and Refuses to Apologise Four hundred horses, a five-cylinder engine unlike anything else on the planet, a Nürburgring lap record that silenced every critic — and it still fits in a supermarket car park. This is…
Special Edition · 750 Units Only · 50 Years of Five Cylinders The Audi RS 3 competition limited: 50 Years of Five-Cylinder Glory in 750 Cars To mark half a century of its legendary inline-five, Audi Sport has built the most focused, most exclusive RS 3 ever made. Carbon everywhere. Coilover suspension. Semi-slick tires optional….
First Drive Review · PHEV SUV £25,000 for a Plug-In Hybrid SUV With 56 Miles of Electric Range? BYD Just Did It. The BYD Atto 2 DM-i lands in Britain as the most affordable — and arguably most disruptive — PHEV compact SUV on the market. But does the value story hold up in the…
First Look · 2026 Model Year The 2026 Kia Sportage Just Rewrote the Rules of the Compact SUV Three powertrains. Spacecraft lighting. Factory off-road tires. Kia’s bestselling SUV arrives with its most ambitious upgrade yet — and it’s harder than ever to ignore. By Torque Cartel · LA Auto Show Debut · Arrives Q2 2026…
