They are pretty common in BMWs, with much more practical and attractive black carpeting.

It will have a BMW engine. Probably the existing B58 from their x40i designated cars. So tunable but not insanely so.

Seems like a rock hard ride is pretty common with Audi’s front-longitudinal engine layout if the car is set up for performance. First noticed it with a B5 S4 I owned for a day before returning it.

Too bad it doesn’t have a rear hatch like the A7. If you go for that super swoopy rear roofline, you might as well make it useful and have a hatchback. See also A5 Sportback, 4 Series Gran Coupe, Panamera, and Kia Stinger.

Last year we rented a Kia Sorento for a road trip. It was decent enough, and very spacious for all the kid-related stuff we had to haul. Unfortunately as we were leaving town it developed some sort of control issue, where it decided I really wanted to make a u-turn instead of a right turn, and it almost forced me into…

I pulled up next to one the other day. The strip of chrome running along the bottom of the windows/top of the doors was visibly misaligned between the front and rear doors. For the kind of money Ford wants, pass.

It’s a shame the new Lagonda/Taraf was just a million dollar limited edition Middle East special. In more reasonable spec it should have replaced the Rapide, which is pretty but useless as a sedan. The Taraf’s design is quite handsome, like a sharp, well made bespoke suit, and does a good job of blending the modern…

As a BMW owner, 🖕to BMWNA

It’s cool that the 560 designation came back. Too bad they couldn’t call it the 560SEC.

Right, Q5 = basically jacked up A4 wagon (longitudinal engined MLB platform), Tiguan = jacked up Golf (transverse engined MQB platform).

These look like great places to stash a pistol, like that hidden cubby behind the infotainment screen on the current Tahoe.

Yeah but like you describe, branding separation is pretty clear with Audi and BMW: it’s an S vs an RS, an M Sport vs an M. Heck even Mercedes used the AMG Sport for a short while.

Are all Mercedes going to be AMGs now, with ‘plain’ Mercedes being just the base trim?

Vents still look like a puckered anus 👎

A lot of these look like colors that are already in the BMW/M catalog:

If it’s anything like the current W205 C-Class it may look nice in photos but isn’t that nice to look at or touch in real life. I took my old W211 E350 in to the dealer for some recall work, and got a current C300 as a loaner. The interior did not look or feel nearly as sumptuous as in the photos (lots of cheap…

A GT2 is about $10k less than a comparably equipped 440i Gran Coupe, and even comes with an LSD, which can’t be had at all on any 4 Gran Coupe.

I always hated on run flats because they ruin the ride of my X5.

I liked how the pedestrians shown in the second camera angle seemed to keep walking, like it wasn’t something they hadn’t seen many times before.

You arrogant ass! You killed us!