Reviews

Welcome to egmCarTech’s Reviews section. Here you will find the latest reviews by the egmCarTech editorial team.


Review: 2012 BMW 5-Series

Review: 2011 BMW 5-Series has grown up, but maybe a little too much

Let’s say you’re a young middle-aged man who’s moving up in the world. You’re ready to graduate from the jalopy that got you through college and the first couple years of your career. You have a need for extra room to occasionally shuttle colleagues back and forth from business lunches to conference meetings, but you [...]

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Review: 2012 Audi Q7 TDI

Review: 2012 Audi Q7 TDI is a worthy competitor in the diesel luxury full-size SUV segment

Audi has always been the underdog when it came to comparing their models to standard setters made by BMW and Mercedes-Benz. But over the last decade or so, the Ingolstadt brand has been making a huge statement for themselves. It’s one that tells the world that they’re not to be taken lightly and that other [...]

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Review: 2011 Chevrolet Cruze

Review: 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is a quality compact segment competitor

Never have I ever said anything spectacular about a Chevrolet product during my time on Earth thus far, halo cars Camaro and Corvette aside. And I thought this while playing the juvenile game with a couple of friends and trying to mack it with the girl sitting next to me – I guess this reassures [...]

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First Drive: 2012 Toyota Camry

First Drive: 2012 Toyota Camry will keep fans happy but faces tough competition

Having expectations for a Toyota Camry is like expecting a bowl of pudding to rock your world…it just really doesn’t happen. That’s because when car enthusiasts think of the Toyota Camry, they immediately default to “appliance, white good,” but most of all: boring. However, Toyota Camrys of the past have charmed in their own individual [...]

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1994 Mercedes-Benz W124 E320 Gauge Cluster

Flashback Review: 1994 Mercedes-Benz W124 E320 Coupe

As the television blew up about the arrival of hurricane Irene, I sat there, staring into space, reminiscing about my past car ownership experiences. So assuming that a fair amount of you will be pulling a hermit crab while the storm rolls through, I thought I’d provide some piece of mind from my own personal [...]

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First Drive: 2012 BMW 1-Series M Coupe

First Drive: 2012 BMW 1-Series M Coupe deserves ‘Ultimate Driving Machine’ respect

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 [...]

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Review: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon

Review: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon is mean grocery getter

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, [...]

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Review: 2011 Audi A8

Review: 2011 Audi A8 is all about engineering progress through technology

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 [...]

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Review: 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible

Review: 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible is drop top beauty

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 [...]

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Review: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe offers powerful bang for your buck

Review: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe offers powerful bang for your buck

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, [...]

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