Audi TT RS - First Drive (Mon, 30 Jan 2012)
Audi TT RS - First Drive Audi doesn’t expect to sell a whole bunch, but for now the American arm is satisfied with just bringing a new TT RS west. The sun bears down hot and bright on the tightly wound road course at Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club in the desert just outside Pahrump, Nevada. You’re in Third gear, winding a high-strung turbocharged five-cylinder engine to its 7000-rpm redline. You careen toward Turn 3, a tight, decreasing radius number with a really late apex. Photo Gallery: Audi TT RS - First Drive - European Car Magazine Audi TT RS - First Drive | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class - First Drive (Fri, 27 Jan 2012)
2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class - First Drive Third generation is the charm. Sport utility vehicles ain’t what they used to be. Thank goodness. Most of us really don’t need an old-school, body-on-frame, gas-guzzling galoot. Mercedes-Benz knows this and has given us the M-Class midsize crossover, made with a unibody construction. Sorry to use the cliché “car-like” but that’s exactly what it is. Photo Gallery: 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class - European Car Magazine 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class - First Drive | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe - Seat Time (Tue, 24 Jan 2012)
2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe - Seat Time The 1 M loves a mountain road. With its abbreviated wheelbase, it’s much pointier, “dartier” as one colleague put it, than the longer and heavier M3. We’re nearing a historic moment in automotive history. As a new BMW 3 Series platform looms on the horizon, and with it a new M3—which, it’s speculated, will be powered by a turbocharged version of the BMW inline six-cylinder engine—the naturally aspirated BMW M car as we knew it will have ceased to exist. Photo Gallery: 2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe - European Car Magazine 2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe - Seat Time | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI & New Project TDI - Volkswagen’s Conquest Car (Wed, 01 Feb 2012)
2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI & New Project TDI - Volkswagen’s Conquest Car The new, 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI was launched as a conquest car. It’s a cornerstone, maybe the cornerstone, of Volkswagen’s strategy for world automotive domination. The new, sixth-generation Jetta was launched as a conquest car. It’s a cornerstone, maybe the cornerstone, of Volkswagen’s strategy for world automotive domination, that is, to be the biggest car company in the world. Photo Gallery: 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI & New Project TDI - European Car Magazine Photo Gallery: 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI & New Project TDI - European Car Magazine 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI & New Project TDI - Volkswagen’s Conquest Car | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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2010 BMW 550i GT - The Ultimate Touring Machine At 8,000 Miles (Tue, 15 Feb 2011)
2010 BMW 550i GT - The Ultimate Touring Machine At 8,000 Miles Long-Term Update You could spend days trying to figure out where the 550i GT fits in BMW’s lineup and whether or not there’s a need for it. It’s not a wagon, nor is it a crossover SUV. It’s called a 5 Series but it’s based on the 7’s longer chassis. If you must, and BMW would rather you didn’t, you can group it with newcomers like Toyota’s Venza and Honda’s Crosstour, wagon-esque cars with higher rooflines and hatches. And, after you’ve exhausted yourself trying to pin it down, only one question remains: Does it drive like a BMW, because, if it does, then many of those questions become irrelevant. Photo Gallery: 2010 BMW 550i GT - European Car Magazine 2010 BMW 550i GT - The Ultimate Touring Machine At 8,000 Miles | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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2010 BMW 550i Gran Turismo (Fri, 03 Dec 2010)
2010 BMW 550i Gran Turismo The crossover that crossed back over. The latest addition to our long-term fleet is possibly the most unique car we’ve ever had. Is it a car? Is it an SUV? Photo Gallery: 2010 BMW 550i Gran Turismo - European Car Magazine 2010 BMW 550i Gran Turismo | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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2009 Audi A5 - One Sexy Beast - Long Term Update (Mon, 17 May 2010)
2009 Audi A5 - One Sexy Beast - Long Term Update The odometer on our long-term A5 just turned over 12,000 miles. At A Glance Plus + Slick and sleek looks Photo Gallery: 2009 Audi A5 - European Car Magazine 2009 Audi A5 - One Sexy Beast - Long Term Update | Digg It | Add to del.icio.us
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