“BMW 318d won the Green award for its combination of energy-saving technologies including ‘Auto Start-Stop' that switches the engine off when the car”

A lot can happen in nine seconds. It's the time it took Bayern Munich's Roy Makaay to score a goal against Real Madrid in the 2007 UEFA Champion's League. It's the time it took Usain Bolt to run 100m in New York in May.

Audi is offering its new Parallel Park Assist system with the A3 Cabriolet . This option can size up a parking space and then automatically steer the car into it, leaving the driver only to accelerate, select gears and brake.

Audi's Spacious, Sleek A3 Will Impress Every Drop-Top Driver SIX weeks of girl power and Mailmotors has gone to the dogs. All the talk of going topless, seat fabrics and aromatherapy air fresheners during my absence was more painful than my slipped disc.

With the new A3 Cabriolet, Audi's understated and rather covetable hatchback gets a soft top for the first time. More than that, it gets a record-breakingly fast one. Push the button located conveniently to the rear of the handbrake, and merely nine seconds la...

“who would have thought, back when the Chevrolet Citation was popular, that a compact hatchback could one day retail for the same price as a big Cadillac”

Audi has already revealed that its next S4 sedan will be powered by a supercharged 3.0L V6, but a new report finds the S4 will not be the only A4-variant to use the blown engine. Sources inside Audi have revealed that the M3-rivaling RS4 will also use the supe...

Princess makes an 85ft yacht. It's called the 85MY (Motor Yacht, see) and costs a mind-blowing £3million. The thing I like best about the Princess 85MY, though, is that you can also buy a 95ft version.

“the same thing can be said about the Audi A3 Cabriolet. It costs £23860, you get four seats, an electric roof and climate control.”

Abt's off-the-shelf tuning products for the 2.0 TFSI and 1.8 TFSI engines available for the Audi A3 Cabriolet put the new Audi rag top in four stages of upgraded power. The first offering for the 2.

Discuss this story in the forum at CarTalkCanada Ottawa, Ontario - You could say that the hatchback's most recent upward march in status culminated in Audi's first importing its four-door A3 hatch here in 2006.

AUDI'S A3 has been given a sleek new look - and an option that's essential for anyone who has difficulty in parking a car. The 2009 model year - which will be in the showrooms in early August - is also more environmentally friendly and up to 15 per cent more e...