Audi boldly goes where no one has gone before with this commercial for the Audi S7 featuring Leonard Nimoy (Old Spock) and Zachary Quinto (New Spock) of Star Trek. You’ll walk away feeling like the car is just shy of being a spaceship, and if you’re a Star Trek fan, then you’ll be laughing so [...]
The all-new 2013 Audi RS 5 almost feels like a race car for the street, with its glued-to-the-road suspension, strong brakes and awesome, high-revving 4.2-liter V-8 that generates 450-horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque. That naturally aspirated V-8 is good for an oh-my-gosh 0-60 m.p.h time and, says Audi, an electronically governed top speed of [...]
NAIAS 2013: Evolution is a precarious balancing act. In the case of the CTS, Cadillac had to be sure to walk that tightrope with the utmost care. After all, the CTS has been a hit for Cadillac and put the company in the thick of the sports sedan skirmish. Cadillac introduced the 2014 Cadillac CTS [...]
NAIAS 2013: It is apparent that AMG Engineers cannot be left to their own devices. They turned their voracious appetites on the all-new CLA and turned it into an all-wheel drive rocket: the all-new CLA45 AMG. A hand-built turbocharged four-cylinder produces 355-horsepower and 332 lbs-feet of torque, the CLA45 is good for a 4.5-second 0-60 [...]
Audi is introducing us to the 2015 Audi A3 and S3 sedans. Yep, the world has know the A3 ans S3 as a two or four dour hatchback until now. OK, there has also been a convertible version. Now, Audi is entering a segment it has not played in. Enter Audi’s new compact premium sedan. [...]
I recently had the chance to ride around in the 2013 Buick Verano and Buick Verano Turbo for an afternoon and came away with a list of things that a prospective buyer should know about this car. AMERICA HAS A CHALLENGER Buick is steadily reshaping their once geriatric image into a stylish domestic alternative [...]
Audi brings us the A3 E-Tron Hybrid at the Geneva Motor show, it looks like the real deal. In a highly competitive market of hybrids from nearly every manufacture, its exciting to see Audi getting into the game. The 2013 Geneva Motor Show is the place where Audi will show off their version of [...]
The automobile industry has seen some alluring and desirable designs. Some vehicles, like the 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing, continue to captivate auto-philes to this day, selling for millions of dollars at auction and garnering worldwide followings. But what, exactly, makes a car timeless and collectible? Is it exclusivity? Looks? Performance? In this “Modern Collectibles Revealed” [...]
So what do you do if you cannot quiet stretch enough to purchase an Audi R8? Not to worry – take a look at the 2013 Audi S5 and you will be pleasantly surprised. The S5 is not perfect in every way, but it’s a fun every-day sports coupe that will put a smile on [...]
The current North American Audi A3 is getting long in the tooth and we don’t even get an S3 right now. However, the next generation of A3/S3 are being introduced in Europe and they should be coming to our shores sooner or later. Hopefully sooner! Now, we know more details about the upcoming 2014 Audi [...]
Toyota is getting serious about racing and it shows with their new 2013 TS030 Hybrid World Endurance Championship (WEC) contender and their list of drivers. Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre, Kazuki Nakajima, Anthony Davidson, Stéphane Sarrazin and Sébastien Buemi are confirmed drivers. “The 2013 TS030 Hybrid uses a revised version of the Toyota Racing hybrid system first used in [...]
The 2013 Volvo S60 is still as Swedish as a big chunk of lutfisk with lingonberry topping. Foreign buyouts can be harrowing for automotive companies, but Zhejiang Geely has done absolutely no wrong to this vehicle. The 2013 Volvo S60 is not only worthy of competing with the world’s best, including the Audi A4, BMW [...]
Recently I got to test a 2013 Audi S4 in all its quattro AWD glory, to exercise its flexible, 333-supercharged horsepower V-6 to happy use, and to row the S4’s creamy six-speed manual while plying gravel-infused, twisting, slush-caked back roads, and not once did it hesitate for grip. The only “sin,” if you can call [...]
The new 2014 Audi RS7 Quattro is a monster. The car will rocket from 0-60 MPH in just 3.9 seconds. That’s due to a 560-horsepower twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine that puts out 530 pound-feet of torque. At the Detroit Auto Show the new 2014 Audi RS7 debut with the help of a bit of slight [...]
