I’m not married. Nor do I have any kids, a 401K, a mortgage, and an underlying fear for discoloring hair and sagging body parts invoked by the stress of a nine-to-fiver and coming home some to juniors running around…yet (no offense). But all in all, I pretty much seem like the worst candidate to be [...]
So there it was, right in front of me. Just sitting, quietly, in its metallic black paint glistening seamlessly in the rays of the bright, early spring/late winter afternoon sun—one of the greatest supercars that history has ever produced. And this should go without saying, because Ferrari is an automaker that possesses one of the [...]
As some of you readers have learned through egmCarTech’s first flashback review, my first car was a 1994 Mercedes-Benz W124 E320 Coupe and I absolutely loved it to death. But an unfortunate string of events happened and as a result, the Benz was sent off to the proverbial junkyard in the sky. So naturally, many [...]
When Volkswagen finally set out to redesign the Beetle for 2012, one of the key points the automaker set out to hit, in the interest of expanding the model’s market, was to grab the attention of more men. The German automaker packed in plenty of style, power and awesome options like a Fender sound system, [...]
I remember reading once, in another fairly recent review of a BMW, that the person critiquing the car was bold enough to say: “BMW is the new Mercedes-Benz.” Now, I’m not going to name who specifically, but being a German car enthusiast at heart and a lover of both brands, my denial set in: “WTF, [...]
With every automaker aiming for fuel-efficiency gains, competition in the compact sedan segment has heated up over the past couple of years. While Honda’s Civic and Toyota’s Corolla, two models that used to own the segment down-right, have struggled to impress critics and buyers, the new Chevrolet Cruze, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Jetta (somewhat) have all [...]
When you look at compact SUVs/crossovers, there are a few legends in the segment that have been around for ages. Those include the well-known Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 and the Ford Escape. More recently, the Volkswagen Tiguan, Chevrolet Equinox and the Kia Sportage have joined the heated segment and have all proven themselves worthy in [...]
When I drove the new Ford Taurus SHO in 2009, I was impressed with the car overall - however, I felt that while the massive 3.5 liter twin-turbo V6 EcoBoost was powerful, the steering was lifeless, the braking was subpar and the 4,361 weigh-in was too much. But things have changes for the Taurus SHO and for [...]
As an automotive journalist, I’ve had the pleasure of driving many new cars this year, however, there were a select few that really blew me away – surprisingly, a Kia was one of them – the 2013 Kia Optima SX Turbo to be specific. If you don’t remember the outgoing Optima, that’s because the car [...]
Jan Gleitsmann is a german car blogger, who writes over at Auto geil. His original review in German can be found here. If I were to create a nickname for the Nissan Juke-R, I would have call it ‘Hellboy’, as a tribute to its hellish GT-R powertrain and its fresh, young presence as a compact SUV. [...]
