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U.S. President Donald Trump's 25-percent tariff on all foreign-made automobiles and parts has now come into effect. Vehicles from Canada and Mexico that meet CUSMA's trade rules will be hit by the tariff only on the non-American content. But make no mistake: this will result in significant price hikes all …

Premium carmaker Audi said Monday it will cut 7,500 jobs by 2029 in Germany, citing "immense challenges" as the country's auto industry battles slowing electric vehicle demand and rising Chinese competition. The cuts—amounting to about 8 percent of Audi's global workforce—were aimed at boosting "productivity, speed and flexibility" at its …

More troubles are affecting the Volkswagen ID.4 and its upscale cousin, the Audi Q4 e-tron . The two German electric SUVs have just been hit with another pair of recalls. In the case of the former, whose sales were suspended over three months last fall to fix a problem with …

The new generation of Audi’s compact luxury sedan goes by the name of A5 instead of A4 for the 2025 model year since the company decided to use even numbers for electric vehicles and odd numbers for ICE-powered ones. However, as we reported a few days ago, Audi will put …

Audi has generated plenty of confusion among shoppers with the gradual rollout of a new nomenclature based on odd numbers for ICE-powered models and even numbers for electric ones. For example, the next-generation A4 sedan was renamed A5 in order to make room for the upcoming all-electric A4. The German …

New tariffs set to come into effect in the U.S. combined with Volkswagen Group ’s struggles could result in Porsche and Audi moving some of their production to Uncle Sam’s land, which would be a first in either case. That’s what German publication Handelsblatt reported just a few days ago …

Unsurprisingly, 2024 was another year full of weird, funny and viral stories involving cars and drivers, many of which were featured in our Buzz section. Want us to refresh your memory? Here’s a look back at some those stories that made us laugh or scratch our heads here at The …

The days of the Audi Q8 e-tron are numbered. Initially launched for the 2019 model year simply as the Audi e-tron , then renamed for 2024, the luxury brand’s first electric SUV is now facing declining sales globally and will soon be eliminated. Following rumours of the Q8 e-tron’s demise …

The third-generation Audi Q5 , which made its global debut in early September, will launch in Canada sometime in the spring of 2025. Today, the German luxury brand introduced the coupe-like Q5 Sportback, and that one is expected to arrive a bit later, probably around summer. In exchange for a …

Things are going pretty bad for Audi at the moment. The German luxury brand could be laying off 4,500 employees in the next few months—just a fraction of the tens of thousands of jobs likely to be cut within the Volkswagen Group—in addition to the already-announced closure of its Brussels …