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Continuing its wave of success, Volkswagen has had another of its products honored by the motoring press. The Audi RS 3 has been named to Car and Driver's 10Best List of the Year for 2018.

The editors of KBB.com has lauded Audi's A5 Sportback and Q5 crossover for their design, refined driving and sophisticated technology packages.

Audi has swept the luxury field in this year's Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) ratings of luxury sedans, SUVs and crossovers.

Audi had recalled about 31,000 2017-18 A4 sedan and allroads and 2018 A5 Sportbacks to replace bright speaker surrounds that can come loose and cause injuries in crashes.

Audi may recall up to 850,000 Audi diesels -- and up to 5,000 German A8 luxury models -- in the continuing diesel emissions scandal. While it is largely complete in the United States, the scandal investigations are continuing in Europe where the scandal is anything but over.

Audi used this year's SEMA show to not only introduce a new line of Audi TT RS-based performance parts but also to debut the powerful Audi TT clubsport turbo concept, a vehicle that takes the Audi TT two-place to a new high.

Audi used the SEMA show this week to make a pair of importance performance-oriented debuts. According to the automaker, it is about to launch a line of Audi TT RS performance parts that should make the pocket racer even better.

For the last several months, Volkswagen has been awaiting federal approval of its plans to fix nearly 40,000 3.0-lliter turbodiesels at the heart of the Dieselgate scandal. The automaker received that approval late last week.

If you think that Audi's engine designators can be a bit confusing, just wait. If you live outside the U.S., starting in 2019, the A8 will introduce the automaker's new 30 to 70 designator scheme that is supposed to spell out an engine's power level. It would be good if it all wasn't relatively relative.

Audi's steady sales pace has resulted in another monthly record in September. The automaker set its 81st straight monthly sales record, led by deliveries of the all-new Q5, the Q7 and the A5 Sportback.

After pullling out of enduro racing last year in favor of Formula E(electric) campaigning, Volkswagen announced its factory works team for the racing series. VW will retain its current team -- Abt Schaeffler -- as the factory works unit.

The editors of WardsAuto have honored Audi's S5 Sportback for the user experience it provides drivers. The Audi Sportback joins nine other vehicles that were similarly honored.

Although police investigators are still seeking the answer, no one can say with any certainty exactly how 69 vehicles have vanished from VW's Pontiac Superdome Dieselgate car storage only to have some reppear elsewhere.

Audi, Volkswagen's upscale division, has announced the recall of 8,383 2017-18 A3 cabriolets and sedans to repair a software glitch that could cause the Engine Control Unit to mistake certain conditions that could result in stalling.

Tesla has enjoyed almost total domination of the luxury electric vehicle market since the launch of the Model S in 2012. It has continued that success through with the Model X, and now look, is poised to make a third mark on the EV market as the Model 3 is beginning to be delivered in late 2017.

For the 80th consecutive month, Audi sales set a new record in the United States. Sales of the Volkswagen subsidiary were led by the luxury Q7 crossover, the new mid-sized crossover Q5 and the Q5 Sportback.

Audi is teaming with a Chinese electronics firm to build solar cells for embedding in vehicle panoramic roofs. The panels will retain visibility for the vehicle occupants.

Why does Volkswagen seem to keep shooting itself in its left front tire, so to speak? Just when the wheels of Dieselgate seemed to be slowing to a stop, prosecutors found what could be another scandal right in the paperwork they are using to investigate the emissions scandal in Europe, possibly thousands of cars built using a repeating set of VINs. So why did someone do it? No one knows right now.

Audi has announced a key change in the way it names its vehicles. For a long time, the automaker labeled its vehicles starting with the model name, such as A8. Then, the automaker would give the engine size and the engine type -- gasoline turbo, turbodiesel. Now, Audi is to drop size as an important criterion and will add power output.

Monterey Car Week is a great place to introduce a hypercar like the Audi R8 V10 Spyder. It is Audi's fastest production convertible, hitting 60 in 3.3 seconds. The intro is planned at Friday's Quail, a Motorsports Gathering.

If you would like to find out what it feels like to handle a high-performance racecar, Audi has the experience/training plan for you. Now open for reservations, you can learn how to handle high-performance Audi track vehicles from driving professionals and hands-on experience.

Even as Volkswagen works towards its 30 electric vehicles across its subsidiaries by 2025, Audi is taking an additional tack. While it does have its own electrics in the work, the automaker is still convinced that diesel power has a major future and it is working on it.

Recently Audi CPO ad for China compared women to used cars. Suffice to say, China's equivalent to Twitter went bonkers and Audi pulled the ad and issued a statement disavowing it.

Although Audi's key point in its introduction of the 2018 A8 this week was the arrival of the first production autonomous driving system, the automaker had other A8 news that shows it is quite a vehicle.

Countering predictions that full autonomy would be a minimum of three years away and probably more like eight years, Audi Tuesday introduced its redone A8 that includes a large technology suite. The centerpiece of that suite is Traffic Jam Pilot that offers full autonomous driving capability to 60 kph (37 mph). It also offers lots of driver warnings, as well.

Audi has recalled a number of 2016-17 Q3 crossovers because of a software problem. The problem occurs when the parking brake is used as an emergency brake. Because of a software problem that resulted from product upgrades, the brakelights remain off so vehicles in the rear run the risk of hitting the Q3.

Volkswagen's recall of 450,000 SUVs that have been affected by failing parts could be just the tip of the iceberg. With industry consolidation, it is quite possible that as many as 13 other carmakers and suppliers could also be facing their own set of callbacks.

Volkswagen has avoided a major cost hit as the automaker, just beginning to recover strongly from its self-inflicted emissions scandal, has found that a software upgrade can cause of problem with the braking systems of 766,000 models worldwide.

June was a good month for Volkswagen and its subsidiary Audi. The VW brand saw that the Dieselgate scandal was fading as their sales were up 15 percent in June. Audi celebrated its 78th straight monthly sales increase, led by sales of the Q7.

When Audi RS 5 goes on sale shortly it will feature mild-hybrid technology. Instead of using a full hybrid system, it will rely on Valeo's quick start-stop system that combines the starter and alternator into one technology package.