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Audi Mileage Marathon kicks off in New York Monday morning

Oct 5th 2008 5:38PM - 1 Comment

The Audi Mileage Marathon that we first told you about a couple of weeks ago kicks off tomorrow morning in Manhattan. A fleet of 23 new diesel-powered Audis including the Q7, Q5, A4 and A3 will leave from Tavern on the Green at 9 am Monday on a two ...

Gallery: Audi Mileage Marathon: The Start

Audi to kick off diesel push with cross country Mileage Marathon

Sep 8th 2008 5:14PM - 1 Comment

click the Mileage Marathon vehicles for a high res gallery Audi has announced plans to demonstrate the fuel efficiency of its new diesel vehicles by running a cross-country marathon this fall. The automaker is providing 23 TDI vehicles that will be ...

Gallery: Audi Mileage Marathon, Wave 3

VIDEO: Audi of America EVP Johan de Nysschen talks about diesel

Oct 16th 2008 10:29AM - 0 Comments

Over at Carlist.com, Lou Ann Hammond is continuing to roll out some of the video interviews that she did during the wave 1 of the Audi Mileage Marathon. In the latest installment, she chats with Audi of America Executive VP Johan de Nysschen about ...

The Last Days of the Audi Mileage Marathon: Vegas to LA

Oct 27th 2008 11:49AM - 1 Comment

Along with Autoblog lensman Drew Phillips, we did the last leg of the Audi Mileage Marathon in Car #5: an Audi Q7 fitted with a 3.0-liter TDI. Our route lasted four days and took us from Las Vegas to Mammoth Lakes, CA, to Monterey for the final ALMS ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Fuel efficiency strategies

Oct 14th 2008 2:31PM - 0 Comments

After seven days and 2,832 miles, I'm finally back home. My week-long stint on the Audi Mileage Marathon is over and I believe I've learned a thing or two about hyper-miling. Teams running in the event were scored based on a formula that included ...

Audi marathon fleet stops for diesel, finds hydrogen

Oct 7th 2008 10:14AM - 4 Comments

Washington DC Shell Hydrogen Station At the end of our first day on the road for the Audi Mileage Marathon yesterday, our destination was Washington, D.C. As we rolled into the Capitol area, the Q7 TDI's navigation system attempted to guide us to ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Day 3, almost to the Windy City

Oct 8th 2008 8:01PM - 1 Comment

Denise McCluggage and Kate McLeod pulling into Cleveland Day two of the mileage marathon saw a significantly longer drive than the first day, combined with less traffic. Since the route was predominantly highway cruising, the diesels were truly ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Feeling sick and driving fast

Oct 15th 2008 8:52AM - 2 Comments

click above to enter gallery Stretching from Denver to Las Vegas, the third wave of the Audi Mileage Marathon has, I believe, the most beautiful landscape views of the 4,700 mile cross-America journey. Lucky for me, this is the leg that I'm ...

ABG comes up a winner in Wave 3 of the Audi Mileage Marathon

Oct 16th 2008 6:14PM - 1 Comment

click for more shots from the Audi Mileage Marathon I'd like to say we had our winning technique down from day one. But the truth is, my partner (Don Buffamanti of Autospies) and I didn't exactly have spectacular results on the first two drives. ...

Lessons from a few hundred miles in an Audi A3 TDI

Oct 16th 2008 7:49PM - 32 Comments

As I got ready to retire to my hotel room on the last night of my stint on the Audi Mileage Marathon last night, I happened to share the elevator with a young man. He spotted my Audi-provided name tag and asked if I worked for the automaker. I said ...

VIDEO: Shell's Sylvia Williams discusses GTL diesel fuel

Oct 12th 2008 9:08AM - 8 Comments

The Audi A4 TDI that started off running on GTL One of the VIPs that Audi invited to be present at the launch of the Mileage Marathon in New York on Monday was Sylvia Williams. Williams is the general manager of business development for future ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: ABG wins Leg 1 with 29.4 mpg

Oct 9th 2008 12:57PM - 11 Comments

Now that we are somewhere between Chicago and Salem, IL you might be wondering what the final tally was for the first wave of the our little cross country trek. My co-driver for the New York to Chicago run flew home last night and I'm now riding ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Day 2 - 400 miles and we land in Cleveland

Oct 7th 2008 5:09PM - 5 Comments

As day 2 of the Marathon draws to a close we're approaching Cleveland. We left Capitol Hill in D.C. about seven and half hours and 400 miles ago in the Q7 TDI. The fuel gauge is showing just under half a tank of diesel left and the diesel SUV is ...

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