Welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short, The Drive’s morning news roundup serving the biggest automotive headlines from around the world. The Downshift summarizes news items in a few sentences, with links to other sites to get the deeper story. Here’s your bulletin for Tuesday, August 18, 2026. 5⃣ While Audi hasn’t signaled that its trademark five-cylinder engine is living on borrowed time, the threat of ever-tightening emissions regulations always puts weird enthusiast engines in jeopardy. Fortunately, Audi Sport boss Rolf Michl is saying all the right things to indicate that the five-pot still has life ahead of it, saying in an interview that, “We’re well aware about the historical meaning of the five-cylinder,”…
Audi Isn’t Prepared to Leave the Five-Cylinder Behind: TDS
