The Volkswagen Group 2.0-liter clean-diesel TDI engine has been fitted to quite a number of VW vehicles over the years, as well as the Audi A3 TDI. Now the company has announced a voluntary safety ...

Volkswagen has officially announced a recall of 168,275 Jetta TDI and Golf TDI models as well as certain Audi A3 TDI vehicles after a recent stop sale. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety ...

First, here's where it stands on paper. In October, the diesel variant accounted for 8 percent of total A3 sales. This is well below the average 13 percent diesel take rate for all of Audi's models ...

There’s an all-new Audi A3 for 2013. It’s slightly bigger, yet lighter, has three new engines including a more powerful diesel and is offered with an expanded line of body styles: two- and four-door ...

Audi has combined for the first time in a model the start-stop system and the S-tronic dual-clutch transmission. This application will be used for the first time in the Audi A3 1.6 TDI with 105 hp and ...

Old enough to remember that AMC, not Subaru, built the "world's first Sport Utility Wagon" and young enough to prefer fuel injection to carburetion, Christopher "Emmy" Jackson entered the auto ...

Competes with: Mercedes-Benz CLA250, Buick Verano, Acura ILX Hybrid Looks like: Every other Audi, only smaller Powertrains: 150-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder diesel; six-speed S tronic ...

As part of its Los Angeles Auto Show activities, Green Car Journal magazine jurors chose the Audi A3 TDI for its Green Car of the Year award. This is the second year in a row that a diesel has taken ...

Finding a balance between fuel economy and performance is never easy; and all cars must compromise somewhere. Take the Tesla Roadster. Fast, emissions-free, and nearly zero maintenance. The compromise ...

On paper the A3 TDI is capable of going toe-to-toe with most hybrids, but in practice is capable of much, much more. In the hands of a committed hypermiler, it eats Prii for breakfast. I wasn’t ...

A base A3 2.0 TDI FWD S-Tronic runs $29,950. The VW Golf TDI we recently tested runs $23,090. In the review of that car we mentioned how the $7k discount for the Golf might be the way to go. After all ...