All-Wheel Driven Podcast

Brian Scotto has been a lot of things, Magazine Editor, Film Director, and now Youtube personality Chief Creative Officer at Hoonigan. Through all that, he's also had a serious addiction to the Audi brand... particularly the big bodies. In this second part of our discussion with him, we talk about importing cars from Germany, wheels/Rotiform, the art of video production (versus virality) and Hooni...

Brian Scotto has been a lot of things, Magazine Editor, Film Director, and now Youtube personality Chief Creative Officer at Hoonigan . Through all that, he's also had a serious addiction to the Audi brand... particularly the big bodies. In this first part of our discussion with him, we talk about Hoonigan's Audi SEMA cars, his Coupe quattro and Ken Block's Sport quattro, plus his ever-expanding A...

In the fall of 2021, Jeff Beyda and his sons flew to Burlington, VT to finalize a deal to purchase perhaps the last remaining works Audi quattro rally car from American rally legend John Buffum. The car had won the 1982 Rally Portugal at the hands of Michèle Mouton, then was sent to the USA later that season where Buffum logged Audi's first win at Pike's Peak and eventual rally championships in th...

New Jersey exotic car dealer and vintage Audi specialist Kevin Ginsberg talks about his own Audi enthusiast history, his former ownership of our Audi Club quattro Sweepstakes '85 "ur" quattro 20V, and multiple other subjects.

Audi Club's Talia Pakkala and Bill Cho join quattro Magazine editor George Achorn to go through questions and comments about the magazine submitted as part of Audi Club's membership survey. Special thanks to SilverCar by Audi for helping make this survey and episode possible, and also for the great prize of free rental days for one lucky survey participant. Joint Audi Club North America at www. Au...

Over the summer we caught up via conference platform with Audi Sport and Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen for a chat about his biography "Mr. Le Mans". The book is as much about the man as it is about racing, which led to a conversation about documentaries like "Truth in 24" and the "F1 Drive to Survive" series by Netflix. We also got Tom's take on Le Mans 2023 and Audi's return. "Mr. Le Mans" is pub...

When a mysterious RS2 pops up for sale in South Florida with a VIN saying it's a 1.6-liter 80 front-wheel drive, importation expert and well connected man Jamie Orr and quattro Magazine Editor George Achorn do some sleuthing to get to the bottom of just what the car is. Think we can't get nerdy with background on the Audi RS2 Avant? Think again.

Aaron Plante enjoys raising eyebrows from his back-of-the-book Rear Spoiler column in quattro Magazine. For the upcoming Q2_2021 issue, he joins editor George Achorn and casts a critical eye at modern electric car naming practices, messing with engineering-based nomenclature, and the problem with too many prefixes and suffixes. The pair also look back at the history of e-tron concepts an...

By day, Ivan Shmatov is a designer at Audi Sport in Ingolstadt. He's worked on racecars like the R8 LMS GT3, R8 LMS GT2, and liveries for Audi racers in Formula E and Le Mans. In his free time, he's also @sell_porsche_to_buy_porsche on Instagram where he takes on commissioned jobs of sketching cars for enthusiast owners be they Audi, Porsche or whatever. quattro Magazine editor George Ac...

Following Monterey Car Week 2019, quattro Magazine editor George Achorn swung by 2Bennett Audimotive in Davis, CA to take a tour of their massive facility dedicated to the restoration, maintenance and augmentation of mainly vintage Audi models. This recording was waiting for the accompanying story in the pages of quattro, and that goes into circulation this week to member subscriber...

On the eve of his new book becoming available, former Audi designer Peter Birtwhistle catches up with quattro Magazine editor George Achorn to chat about his long career in design, and offer a window into Audi in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Buy Peter's book on Amazon HERE:  https://www.amazon.com/English-Car-Designer-Abroad-Designing/dp/1787114708/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=peter+birtw...

quattro Magazine editor George Achorn and Audi Club events manager Bill Cho recount their experience on their e-tron Roadtrip as they return from Avantoberfest in Vermont and electrically motor back to home base. They chat roadtrip, Avantoberfest and go for a deep dive on day-to-day electric car ownership. Apologies in advance. Since we were recording mobile from the e-tron, we were tryi...

quattro Magazine editor George Achorn sat down with Audi Sport Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen for a chat at Audi Club Nationals 2019. The venue was the Smithsonian's Udvar Hazy Air & Space Museum in Dulles, VA and the conversation happened live in front of the assembled attendees of Audi Club's annual national event. Listen to the whole conversation here.

quattro Magazine editor George Achorn and Audi Club events manager and digital editor Bill Cho sit down to talk Monterey Car Week, walk through all of the events and tell you what not to miss for Audi enthusiasts. The chat begins from the start, and the focus on Monterey Car Week begins at about 12 minutes in.

We recently traveled to Montreal to attend the Eurokracy car show at the ICAR Mirabel faceility and caught up with Audi Club board member and Audi Club Canada whirlwind Gordon Varney to talk about the Canadian car scene, Eurokracy, other Canadian shows, the Audi Club Canada and also his own TT ALMS.

While on location at the New York Auto Show, we had a chance to go Facebook Live with Audi of America e-tron specialist Matt Mostafaei and talk a bit about the new Audi e-tron.

In this episode, quattro Magazine editor George Achorn walks the Audi show stand at the New York Auto Show with Anthony Garbis, Audi of America product planner for A4, S4, A5, S5, RS 5, Q5, SQ5 and R8.

In this third episode, Bill Cho catches up with George Achorn about his background in the Audi space, plus a look at the redesign of quattro Magazine and a preview of the upcoming Q2 2019 issue due out very soon.

quattro Magazine editor George Achorn and events manager Bill Cho head to Audi of America headquarters in Herndon, VA to catch up with Will Barber, current Audi of America liaison to Audi Club. In addition to his tenure at Audi working with the after-sales business, Will's professional past lives include editor of Fourtitude.com, VWvortex.com and also a stint at AWE Tuning.

Audi Club events manager Bill Cho sits down with quattro Magazine editor George Achorn to kick off the Unfair Advantage podcast and go over the vast mix of events in the USA and Canada for Audi enthusiasts over the upcoming 2019 event season.