1998–present
The Audi TT: A Bauhaus Doodle That Became a Production Car Almost Untouched
In March 1994, at Audi's California design studio, a designer named Freeman Thomas sketched a small, rounded coupe on a notepad, a shape he later described as barely more than "a little identity" for a car that did not exist yet. He showed it to J Mays, then leading Audi's design language toward something sharper than…
3 generations · 28 sourced facts · 19 sources
2006–present
The Audi R8: Two Generations of a Borrowed Name
Audi walked onto the stand at the Paris Motor Show on 30 September 2006 with a car that had almost nothing in common, mechanically, with anything else in the brand's lineup. In name only, it had everything to do with a car that had nothing to do with road use at all. The name R8 had already been earned on the…
2 generations · 39 sourced facts · 25 sources