Yes, I am only talking about cars given to journalists for road tests. I happen to read Sport Auto and other German car mags regularly. The tires on these cars tend to be extra sticky, but at the same time they degenerate extra quickly. Often enough, when they take these cars to a racetrack for a few fast laps, the…

Please consider that pretty much every car maker builds cars for press events that have "extra good" parts on them, starting with the tires and continuing with other stuff. In fact, I've seen that during a guided tour of an engine factory a few years ago. The engine for a press test car was being made and then…

I have to disagree with you. The 3.7 litre V8 looks to be just right for this purpose - full throttle operation is where a naturally aspirated engine can really shine compared to a turbocharged unit, as it tends to be slightly more efficient under these circumstances. At the same time, such an engine is much more…

Tell that to the team that set the overall pole position for Le Mans yesterday.

Three, actually. Webber had two nearly identical flights in the same spot during the Qualifying and Warmup.

A Coupé has 2 doors and no B-pillar. The CLS has 4 doors and a B-pillar. Time to take a dump on Daimler's marketing bullshit if you ask me.

Of course it was for changing the racing line into the path of a driver who was making a move on him. Why you put that into quotation marks is beyond me.

The Omega V8 was indeed cancelled because it was not full throttle resistant. The engine was not the problem, but the flexplate of the automatic gearbox they put in, the 4LE60, blew up at a constant 6000 rpm in 4th (at 155 mph to which the car was restricted). The cancellation of the Omega V8 just before its…

Even the ACO disagrees with you about that. They parked Kauffman after that crash and would have disqualified the team had he been allowed by them to carry on.

Since the pain probably began as he climbed out of the car, I doubt that as well.

That's pretty unlikely, because you would have had a broken vertebrae as Davidson did.

Watch the onboard camera from the SLS AMG of Maximilian Buhk & Maximilian Götz. They did touch.

Well, the Porsche did touch and unsettle him, even though unintentionally, as you pointed out correctly.

Watch it again. The R8 was P.I.T.'d into the Corvette by a yellow Porsche 911 that ended up taking 3rd place in that race (Jaap van Lagen / Christian Engelhart). There was overall madness at the start with the first rows first accelerating and then braking again before the lights went green. That's why the white…

Máté, sorry for the harsh criticism, but I think your article is terrible. Reading it feels like it was sponsored by Porsche. If this article is supposed to give the reader useful information about the race performance of the entrants in the LMP1-H class in the WEC Season 2014 (Audi, Toyota, Porsche) following the 6…

That the Mercedes-Benz W251 is the better car of the two is not disputed, but the explanation for that is a completely different one.

No, they are not related at all.

That's not true. The Pacifica was based on the Chrysler RS platform as opposed to the Mercedes-Benz W251 R-Class, which was derived from the Mercedes-Benz W164. The R-Class is a true Mercedes-Benz, the Pacifica is a true Chrysler.

That's incorrect. The Pacifica was based on the Chrysler RS platform while the R-Class (W251) was based on the Mercedes-Benz W164.

Calm down, that black and red car is a Roding Roadster, a handbuild sportscar made in the south east of Germany, an area commonly known for Weißwurst, Oktoberfest, BMW and Audi. Yes, I mean Bavaria.