As soon as we read the spec sheets for the BMW M3 and M4, we could already predict the sort of moaning that would be coming from our brethren in the automotive media: “Turbocharging kills...
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For a car that, in its first iteration, quickly earned a reputation as a widowmaker, the Porsche 911 Turbo has rather remarkably managed to evolve into a quite docile machine. And whereas the original Type...
Of the current crop of full-size luxury super sedans, we think we like the Audi S8 the most. Its marriage of clean, crisp styling, aluminum construction, AWD bite and 4.0L twin-turbo V8 bark is hard...
The Mercedes-AMG C63 Sedan, while no longer propelled by a naturally-aspirated truncheon-with-nails-driven-through-the-tip of a V8, is still an almighty example of the German compact (Can we still call it that, what with the CLA45 existing...
It’s incredibly easy to dismiss the new Audi S3 Sedan as a pricier, premium label Volkswagen Golf R with a trunk…mostly because that’s pretty much what it is. But most people who are in the...
The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe might not be the largest, fastest, priciest or most prestigious luxury two-door on the market, but it could easily be the most beautiful. Of course, Mercedes-Benz’s full-size coupes have almost...
Last March we were fawning over an even-more-hardcore Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series put together by the relatively unheard of outfit Domanig Autodesign. That red rocket was fortified with 800 horsepower, which gave it extra...
In the last couple of years, Mercedes-Benz has moved the farthest down-market it ever has here in the U.S. by introducing a pair of small, four-cylinder-only, transverse-engine model lines: The CLA “four-door coupe” and the...
We get that some of you are bothered by BMW’s decision to change the name of the two-door M3 to M4, and that you’re bummed that, like so many performance cars these days, it’s got...
The standard version of the BMW X6 is a categorically kooky chimera of a crossover, and the M version of it (called the X6 M, surprisingly enough) is kookier still. But what if you’re in...