Opel may not be making profits by selling Opels, but I would think that developing a lot of cars for other brands, most notably Buick (read Chinese market), makes them a valuable part of GM. I could be wrong of course, but just thinking how many Opel derived Buicks are driving around Shanghai makes me wonder if this…

1st: Stock BMW E39 M5 in blue:

[no need for obscenities]
And no, the comparison doesn’t hit the point: A bigger engine can run at much lower RPMs to achieve the same speed as a smaller engine. When the top speed is not limited to 100 kph, as it is here in Germany, you get a much better fuel economy with bigger engines. For example, at a high…

Over here in Europe, emissions regulations have let to a downsizing of engines which, in theory, raised mileage, while in the real world it stayed the same or increased even. (some old 3 litre V6 get better mileage on high speed Autobahn trips than modern 1.5 litre turbocharged fours).

Neutral: According to Clarkson, the best Skoda is the Yeti, which just also happens to be the best car of all:

Well, that clears BMW off my list of new cars to buy. No matter how nice it was for this lady to receive her (otherwise awesome) car back, I wouldn’t want to be trapped in my own car, which for some software error may lock me up at any moment.
(But maybe the suspect was simply too high on meth or stupid to get out of…

Well, Ford is on a roll lately, right? This looks brilliant and will hopefully drive to match its looks.
There are however two aspects I don’t like, design-wise: First, we do all new cars need to have horizontal head and tail lights?

The worst thing Old Top Gear ever did was when they tried to set Hammond’s pants on fire with a blow-torch (he was protected by two frozen pizzas). This new show is stuffed with that kind of action. Listen, Mr. Wilman: If you prefer to create a fully scripted, non-realistic fiction movie with three guys, then do that…

Crossovers are beginning to get lower and sleeker (see the I-Pace or the strange SUV-coupes from Mercedes and BMW). I am pretty sure that soon we will be able to buy regular sedans and wagons again, only they will be called “Low-Over-Trans-Sport-Utility-Vehicle”, or LOTSUV, for short.

Finally, someone in the autojourno department acknoledges this fact with due intensity - it’s driving me crazy as well! Also, it’s not just that you can’t see where you’ve been, in many modern cars you can’t even see where you’re going either. Many cars now have massive or even two A-pillars, which basically mean…

Thanks, the first didn’t show up on my screen...

I still prefer the original:

I still prefer the original:

Missed this, but here goes. It’s not the power, but rather the conditions: Driving home on thick snow in my dead stock 2.0TDI Passat (140hp), I had to take a left turn at an intersection. I thought I could make it before the lorry coming from the left, so I floored it in the middle of the turn. On the snow the car…

The fact that it’s underwater also supports the idea that it might be a Corvair. Probably next to a tight bend, facing the wrong way.

I approve of this. The first thing you notice when travelling to China (which I think is a great country in many regards) is that nearly everyone drives around with their high beams on all of the time and it is a freaking nightmare, especially for bicyclists and pedestrians. So, yeah, if the usual ticketing won’t…

I am pretty sure that people will get used to the fact that cars are imported from China. I mean, there was a time, when everyone thought that Japanese cars were unacceptable...

Like the styling, especially after most of Audi’s SUVs look like whales on wheels and the new Skoda Kodiaq tries to resemble a decade old lego set.
But I wonder why they chose that name: Is it a) because they want to “shrug off” what they did in the whole Diesel-business, or b) an admission of the fact that if this…

Maybe if Audi stopped producing the same stuff (design-wise) over and over again, year after year after year, people would start caring again. Then again, the EU-spec Passat is almost as expensive and seemingly luxurious as an A4, which is priced outright ridiculously, that not many people chose the latter over the…

Since it’s the customers who buy the cars, I would expect manufacturers to at least say that they will be the ones with the highest priority.