Farewell #LoveMyS5, Hello Exclusive Ara Blue A4 Allroad

With a sad and heavy heart, after six years and eight months and 46.5K miles clocked on the odometer, I must bid a fond farewell to my lovely 2011 Sprint Blue Audi S5. In its place, I have picked up a 2017 Audi A4 allroad quattro; but, it isn’t any ordinary allroad. More in that later. As far as why …

In Photos: Audi Exclusive Nogaro Blue RS 5 at Audi Wilsonville

I had the opportunity to do a photo shoot of a bespoken Audi Exclusive Nogaro Blue RS 5 that had arrived at Audi Wilsonville. A friend of mine also came down to check out the Exclusive beast and size it up against his Ibis White TT RS. Nogaro Blue had been, and continues to be, a very popular color on …

My S5 featured on InsideLine.com

I have been reading the blogs on Edmunds InsideLine.com for several years now and started following their long-term test of a 2009 Audi S5. Fast forward to around a year ago when they started soliciting readers to submit quick write ups on reader’s cars. Recently, those that are selected for publishing have been posted on a new Reader’s Rides blog. …

Sprint Blue Siblings

While I was down at Audi Wilsonville during my lunch break and while chatting with Scott Mitchell, a Sprint Blue B7 RS4 pulled in. It’s pretty darn rare to see another Sprint Blue S5, much less seeing a Sprint Blue B7 RS4… but to have them parked next to each other? That’s ridiculously rare. What made my day even better was seeing …

S5: Sprint Blue and Alu Optic Stone Guards?

Sorry for the lack of posts… I recently transitioned to a new job and that came with a fair amount of learning and work both during and outside of business hours. Anyway, I have been pondering quite a bit on what else I would like done on my S5. One of the modifications that I have really been thinking about …