Author: Jens Meiners and Manfred Jerzembek

Bristling with power and technology, the RS5 is a wicked steed.

According to Volkswagen Group’s chief designer Walter de’Silva, the Audi A5 is the most beautiful car he has ever designed: “It’s elegant and powerful, yet free of aggression and arrogance.” Yet no one would accuse the A5’s hot-rod brother, the new RS5, of a lack of aggression or arrogance: The thing clearly means business. Wheels as large as 20 inches squat in the wheel wells, a trick automatic spoiler rises from the rear deck, and huge air intakes up front suck in vast tracts of atmosphere while fat, R8-style exhaust pipes shoot the air back out again, burned up and spent. Sounds fantastic, right? Prepare your checkbook, as the RS5 will be sold in the U.S., a fact recently confirmed to us by Audi CEO Rupert Stadler.

Keep Reading: 2011 Audi RS5 – First Drive Review

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The ultimate van is a far cry from the charming original Microbus.

One of the unforgotten vehicles of VW’s past is Microbus, the hippie-totin’ love bus of the 1950s through the 1970s. Its successor, the still-rear-engined Vanagon, was sold here until the early 1990s.

A Historic Figure

The Vanagon was succeeded by the Eurovan, internally called T4 and sold in the States off and on until 2003, which switched to a front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. Not exactly blessed in the looks department, the boxy Eurovan never managed to assemble the cult-like following of its predecessors. But in Europe, it soldiered on and morphed into the T5, or Multivan, which is available with an optional 180-hp, twin-turbocharged 2.0-liter diesel four-cylinder, an optional seven-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission, and 4Motion all-wheel drive.

Keep Reading: 2010 Volkswagen T5 Multivan – First Drive Review

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