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This 3,700-Mile Audi S4 Wagon Has A V8, Three Pedals, And A Catch Every Buyer Inherits

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This one-owner Audi S4 Avant has covered just 3,700 miles since new. V8 manual wagon remains one of Audi’s most desirable enthusiast cars. Every B7 S4 buyer should budget for an expensive timing chain service. Some cars are special because they’re rare. Others become icons because they offered a combination of performance and practicality that simply doesn’t exist anymore. The 2008 Audi S4 Avant falls squarely into the second category, pairing a naturally aspirated V8 with a six-speed manual and Quattro all-wheel drive in one handsome wagon package. The one-owner example you see pictured here has traveled just 3,700 miles (5,955 km) since new, but before anyone starts dreaming of bringing it home, there’s one very expensive detail every prospective buyer needs to understand. Read: This Audi UR-Quattro Restomod Has An RS4 Living Inside It Currently listed on Bring a Trailer, the Ibis White wagon is about as close...
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A 5,831-lbs Porsche Hit 167 MPH Underneath A Plane As It Took Off

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Porsche chased Roc, the plane with the widest wingspan on Earth. The stunt unfolded at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. Roc’s six engines combine for 340,500 pounds of thrust. Eager to launch the all-new Porsche Cayenne Electric with the right amount of fanfare, the German brand went looking for a very special stunt, and it settled on one involving the largest aircraft in the world. While we’re not sure it’s as impressive as the time VW used a Touareg V10 TDI to tow a Boeing 747 two decades ago, it’s a decent effort all the same. The whole thing took place at the Mojave Air and Space Port and involved Roc, the plane with the largest wingspan on Earth. The thing is so enormous it has two fuselages and can take off fully loaded at up to 1.3 million pounds (589,670 kg). Read: Porsche’s New Cayenne Coupe EV Hits 60 As Fast As The 911 Turbo S And Can Still Tow Your Boat In the past, we’ve see...
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EVs Actually Got 18% Cheaper, So Why Did The Median Price Go Up?

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Battery costs fell about 35 percent in real terms since 2020. Equivalent electric models dropped roughly 18 percent over five years. Combustion cars moved the other way, growing about 2 percent. Every year we’re told the next breakthrough in battery technology will finally make EVs more affordable . Quietly, that’s already started happening… at least on the manufacturing side. According to a new study out of Germany , global battery costs have fallen by roughly 35 percent in real terms since 2020. Yet if you’ve been shopping for an EV lately, you’ve probably noticed they haven’t become dramatically cheaper. In fact, the median advertised price actually went up. Here’s why. Read: Used Hybrid And EV Prices Have Jumped $3,600 Even After The Tax Credit Died Researchers from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) analyzed more than 100,000 passenger car configurations sold in Germany b...
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Mao’s Old Limo Brand Is Now Outselling Rolls-Royce In China Two To One

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Hongqi’s Golden Sunflower luxury brand is outselling Rolls-Royce in China by two to one. Patriotic buying trends encourage wealthy customers to embrace domestic luxury brands. Honqqi’s expansion plans target Malaysia, Russia and other emerging premium markets. For decades, the formula for displaying automotive success in China was fairly simple. Buy a VW if you could afford a basic car, a Mercedes if you were doing well, a Bentley if you were doing very well, and a Rolls-Royce if you wanted everyone to know it. Now, a growing number of wealthy buyers are apparently choosing something with its roots much closer to home. That something is Hongqi, the luxury division of state-owned automaker FAW. Best known for building limousines used by Chinese political leaders from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping, the brand has spent the last several years reinventing itself as a serious player in the premium, luxury and ultra-luxury segments. Als...
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