30 Nov 2013, 09:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Like a lightning bolt, Volkswagen's return to the WRC scene struck this year. Latvala and Ogier secured the 2013 season for their bosses and we've seen dozens of flying or drifting photos ...
29 Nov 2013, 18:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The most unlikely of hot hatches made its debut this year, the 220 PS Polo R WRC, the first Polo production model ever fitted with the engine from a current generation Golf GTI. No 4Motion or DSG ge...
29 Nov 2013, 17:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Apart from the two highly-tuned Lambos we saw earlier, Rothe brought another special car at this year’s Essen Motor Show in Germany - a Volkswagen Golf VII GTI with a bit more punch under the ...
28 Nov 2013, 16:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Joining the Polo R WRC on ABT Sportsline's Essen Motor Show stand this year will be a Golf GTI project car.
It's called the Dark Edition VS4 and it's based on the seventh generatio...
28 Nov 2013, 15:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A VW Polo with the engine from a Golf GTI? It shouldn't be done! Except Volkswagen actually did it because it wanted to celebrate its return to the WRC.
And so 2,500 Polos were given the 220...
26 Nov 2013, 18:40 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / You could argue that the first two generations of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class were quite ahead of their time, from a number of reasons.
Created from scratch, with no other Mercedes-Benz cousins in...
25 Nov 2013, 12:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Audi A7 is a brand new concept for Audi, a nameplate that has never existed before. Because Ingolstadt didn't want to make a big coupe like the BMW 6 Series, they decided a four-door coupe ...
22 Nov 2013, 14:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The folks at AutoForum are not ashamed of their national automaker. In fact, they're outright proud of Skoda and the models it makes. They tested the 1.2-liter engine on the Rapid and found it ...
22 Nov 2013, 11:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It’s been a successful launch for the 4 Series Coupe, BMW might say after learning that the guys from Car and Driver decided it is amongst the top 10 cars of 2014, after a long debate.
This...
19 Nov 2013, 12:35 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Everybody knows that guy who thinks the world of his boring family sedan. After researching it endlessly on the web, he knows every fact that in his mind makes his car superior to all others in its ...
19 Nov 2013, 08:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As the the hot hatch market is starting to heat up, Honda is finally showing us the hotly anticipated next generation Civic Type R. The car was revealed today in near production ready form, without ...
16 Nov 2013, 13:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Some might say that the Ford Fiesta ST is not as fast as its rivals, the Clio RS and Peugeot 208. But it’s still just as powerful as a Polo GTI, plus Ford has never actually designed the ST to...
12 Nov 2013, 12:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Going fast in an SUV is not something new. BMW lets you do it, and so does Mercedes. But at the bottom end of the spectrum, customers are more preoccupied with the their cargo space and their fuel e...
8 Nov 2013, 21:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / For a while now, Audi has dominated the fast estate market, Volkswagen the European compact market and Skoda the European affordable car market. Nobody other than the owners seems to love their cars...
6 Nov 2013, 10:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you're 15 and into cars and more, this story is the one you've been waiting for all year. And yes, the girl you are looking at really is as perfect as you think she is.
reigning Miss...
6 Nov 2013, 09:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Yesterday it was a Scirocco R reviewed by the Motor Trend, and now the 2015 Volkswagen GTI. What is it with VW, showing us forbidden fruit all the time?
Consumer Reports let one of their more usu...
1 Nov 2013, 09:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It seems like driving supercars and hypercars in the virtual world isn't enough any more. The guys from Turn 10 Studios listened to what the customers demanded and started adding more 'nor...
28 Oct 2013, 12:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Everybody knows that guy, that guy who has a Honda Civic with stickers he doesn't understand the meaning of and too many exhaust pipes sticking out that back. God dam it man, you have a 1.6-lit...
28 Oct 2013, 10:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The problem with wrapping a car is that it never comes out perfect. You have warping because of the sun and anybody who knows the system will be able to find the defects, the creases and the excess ...
26 Oct 2013, 08:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The new Golf GTI is designed to be an everyday hot hatch, not a track machine, a car that will comfortably take you to the shops without screaming in your ear. As a result, its brake system works qu...