Being an owner of the 2011 BMW 135i with a 7-SPEED Double Clutch Transmission and an M-Sport package, it was the closet I could get to BMW catering to my dreams of an M version of the 1-Series… until now. After pleading from tons of fans and making a business case to the higher-ups at its [...]
I was never really a big fan of station wagons. I always thought that, while providing a very utilitarian purpose, they were very boring. Something that those pompous folks from Princeton, New Jersey would drive (seriously, it’s almost like Station Wagon World out there), or a family man’s alternative to the minivan. However, one day, [...]
When you translate Audi’s German slogan Vorsprung durch Technick , you’ll find out that means Progress Through Technology (the U.S. slogan is simply Truth in Engineering) and that is exactly what the new 2011 Audi A8 is all about. In fact, it may be too much engineering for many of us to comprehend, so I’m [...]
Now I would love to get into specific sales figures, numbers and an analyst’s analysis of the muscle car segment, but I don’t want to and you’re probably not looking here to read about all that, anyway. What I can tell you, off the top of my head, is that the Chevrolet Camaro is outselling [...]
Before I even sat inside the new 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, I thought to myself “(insert profanity here) Cadillac you have my attention.” Coming out of the Cadillac CTS Coupe and having driven the Cadillac CTS-V Sedan, my expectations of the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe were extremely high. So before we even get into everything here, [...]
At age 16, the Kia Sportage is the longest running nameplate for the Korean brand in the United States. Just by looking at the redesigned model you can tell that it’s come a long way since its debut in the mid-1990s. All of that credit goes to former Audi head of design Peter Schreyer, who [...]
A trip to the movie theaters reminded me why I hate Hondas. And you must be thinking, “Why is that? What the heck did the movies ever do to ruin Hondas for you?” While you read this either sitting on your lazy bum on the computer, or on your iPad or whatever you may use, [...]
Hybrids tend to occupy vehicle bodies that are, for lack of better words, awkward and unstylish. Honda’s hybrid designers showed us that this likely always true with the design of the first and second-generation Insight. But the Japanese automaker is here to prove us wrong and show us that hybrid and ugly don’t always have [...]
While Nissan is certainly making history with its all-electric Leaf, it is not the first company to successfully manufacture a mechanically viable EV; that’s been done before. It is making history however, as the first company to bring one to the table that offers the technology to the masses in an affordable and somewhat practical [...]
Owners of the BMW 3-Series Coupe, Audi A5, Infiniti G37 Coupe, and Mercedes E-Class Coupe (including those planning on buying the new C-Class Coupe), have long been considered owners of the road when it comes to two-door mass production performance vehicles. They now have a new classmate, and she’s storming in mightily aggressive. For 2011, [...]
