When a manufacturer has established a reputation for sporting excellence based on good-sized normally aspirated V8s, you know there's going to be massed groans when they announce the end of the line.

For a company who trumpets fancy slogans like "Truth in Engineering" and "Advancement Through Technology," you'd imagine Audi would have phased the manual transmission out of its model lineup years ...

Although a twin-clutch gearbox will today routinely knock half a second or so off the 0-62 time of any quick German car, when the B8 S4 came out in 2009 Audi's official testing person did manage to ...