Rieger RS Modification for the Audi A4 B8

2013 Audi A4 B8 Images in from Trinidad today.

It's a right hand drive! Our thanks to Brad for sending these project pix along.

From Trinidad & Tobago: This must be the best-looking Audi A4 B8 on the island. Without stretching, it may very well  be the best in the Caribbean (all the dutch boys in Aruba are going to be jealous.) The body kit conversion is out of Germany, manufactured by Rieger; and Brad opted for the wise choice of German parts for his German car. Bumper, grille, corner intake grilles, skirts, and Rieger's exclusive carbon look rear insert with custom stainless tips put the car in hyper-drive.

The wheels are brand spanking new also. The white-on-white with stainless steel accents come via eta beta. The wheels are Italian - designed in Italy - manufactured in Italy. No substitutes - no reasonable facsimiles - all top drawer modifications. You can bet on a good sound system and what would life be like in hot climes without air?  Well done?  Yes, but more likely and to the point - just like the car - hot hot hot! Impeccable.

Spring is Sprung - the Grass is Riz

I Wonder Where the Tuners Iz...

Rieger's facelift styling for the 2013 Audi A4 / S4  - always on the mark.

After the second coldest spring in recorded continental US weather history - it appears we have turned the corner on the spring of 2013. We are greatful for small mercies. As the weather warms up, tuners north of the Mason-Dixon and coast-to-coast get itchy and come out of hibernation. Scratch this and see how Germans like their Audi B8's. These guys in Bavaria have been doing it for more than 25 years. Jah, das ist gut!

yippee-yi-oh-ki-yay!

Twenty years ago, I knew an art dealer in Toronto who specialised in native art and he was the first to tell me that Germans were nuts about Inuit soapstone carvings, Haida totem pole miniatures, and ceremonial drums. Never really got the connection; still don't get the connection but I can tell you it's for real and very much alive.

Just received notice that the 2013 Rieger Tuning calendar is almost ready for release and this year's theme is "cowboys and indians." Cars, models, crew, and production equipment were taken on location to the German tourist attraction Pullman City in Bavaria - a theme park re-creation of a 19th century town in the  American wild west. You can get an idea of the locale (there's lots of pix) off the news link http://www.rieger-tuning.de/de/news/RIEGER_Making_of_Kalender_2013.php

Coincidentally an article came to our attention at the same time featuring a story on Hartmut Lutz, a visiting scholar teaching at the University of Calgary. His course centers around German enthusiasm for North American aboriginals. The article in the National Post states: "Not far from The Lone Ranger and other Spaghetti Westerns, the writings of Karl May managed to inspire a fervor for North American aboriginal culture that survives in Germany today. There are an estimated 80,000 Indian enthusiasts in Germany: white people who dress up in war paint and feathers, live in tipi camps, bead artifacts, hold powwows and learn traditional dances."