News from BMW M Performance… at the Salon de l’Auto in Geneva there will not only be the new tri-turbo models to admire but also sporting refinements for the new 1, 3 and 5-Series models
Fifty years ago the first James Bond film reached the cinema screens and this gives us a pretext for a glance in the rear-view mirror at the cars driven by 007. This time we take a closer look at the most formidable of all BMW models, Bond’s 750iL in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ with remote control via cellphone, tyre spikes ejection and rockets in the sliding roof..
Audi is launching the smallest Quattro it has ever produced. Now the A1 speeds ahead on all fours, bringing 256 horsepower onto the snow covered roadway and happily drifting in the bends.
‘RS-M3’… the designation of choice for all of those who want to drive their racer made in Munich on the open road and not just on the closed racing circuit. RS-Racingteam have made of the standard M3 an uncompromising light-weight track racer.
It was in 1912, a hundred years ago, that Giovanni Bertone founded the Carozzeria Bertone in Turin. We take a look back at some of the most exciting automobile designs of a century.
Wheelsandmore bring even more exoticism into their workshops by taking on the challenge of the new super sports car McLaren MP4-12C. And they don’t recoil from modifying the very complex suspension.
Irmscher have developed tuning solutions for the Opel Insignia Sports Tourer and for the Chevrolet Cruze. The tuner who specializes in Opel models has made the Insignia fitter for off-road driving...
In Geneva Audi will be showing the long-awaited successor to its high-performance estate model, the RS4 Avant. Now with 450 V8 horsepower and a wealth of technical highlights, family outings...
It followed in formidable foot-steps, the Opel Rekord D when it appeared in 1972. The preceding model ‘C’ had been very popular and so the new car needed to go one better.
Five years after the launch of the i30 model range Hyundai is proposing a second generation of its compact sedan. It has been much praised in advance of its launch, but does it keep its promises?
Ford is making its engines smaller. Where before there was a 1.6 litre four-cylinder motor with 125 horsepower (92 kW) there is now a three-cylinder mill with similar output and the Cologne car...
It was the era of high-waisted flared jeans! Forty years ago the BMW 5-Series was born. The birthday can be celebrated with this yellow 528 as we look back to the wild seventies, when BMW cultivated a revolutionary image and, indeed, successfully shook up the establishment.
It is no disadvantage for the driver of this Jaguar to hold a pilot’s licence. The 550 horsepower Jaguar XKR-S will be available as a convertible from March this year. Our test of the British convertible took place at the El Centro Airforce Base close to the Mexican border.
The next generation Audi TT is already straining in the starting blocks but the Ingolstadt auto maker has decided to make just one more special version of its predecessor, one with 360 horsepower capable of a top speed of 280 kilometres an hour, open or closed.
At the Salon de l’Auto in Geneva Aston-Martin will be presenting the street-legal version of their dream car, the V12 Zagato. The production of a strictly limited edition for wealthy collectors will start in the third quarter of this year.