BARUTH: Don’t look now, but while Cadillac was busy setting Nurburgring lap times, Lincoln was busy building the first true-blue new American luxury sedan in perhaps two decades. I had the pleasure of driving the MKS more than five hundred miles on Thanksgiving Day, and it was just that — a pleasure. The nearly perfect [...]
That’s right — someone actually gave us a press car that’s not red. Though I’ve been assured it was a clerical error and that all Autofiends press cars will always be red. Forever. The end. So… what was it like driving a non-red car? Well, the M45 has a potent V8 and RWD, one of our [...]
Lieberman: To be totally frank, I wasn’t all that excited when I heard we were getting the G37 4-door. We just had the G35x (with AWD) and while it is a very nice car, there’s nothing special or memorable about it. The G35x was kinda fast and handled decent enough, but… it didn’t tickle my [...]
Lieberman: All too often reviews of supercars are little more than a numbers game. Engine capacity (5.2-liters)? Cylinders (10)? Horsepower (552)? Weight (3,307 pounds)? Weight distribution (42/58 front/rear)? Torque (398 lb-ft)? Zero to sixty (3.6 seconds though some say 3.4)? Quarter-mile (11.4 seconds at 126.9 mph)? Top Speed (202 mph)? Standing Mile? 0-100? MPG (about [...]
Levy: At the breakfast spot during the recent 2009 Mazda6 media intro, Mazda lined up their full range for us to take in over the usual junket fair of lukewarm scrambled eggs and chicken sausage. Smack in the middle was the scowling face of the refreshed for 2009 RX8 in red you see here. The [...]
Lieberman: Few cars exist in a bubble (hello Veyron) so to make sense of VW’s first in America, fifty state, clean diesel Jetta TDI, I think we first have to establish where it competes. Starting with nothing but size, price and number of seats, the non-diesel, five-cylinder 2.5 Jetta goes up against Honda Civics, Subaru [...]
Lieberman: I knew the formula going in. Big V8, rear wheel drive, well sorted chassis, designed and built in Australia before being tarted up with a Pontiac badge. We’ve seen this before, too. Bob Lutz did the same thing with a Holden Monaro when Pontiac rebadged it as a GTO. Yet even though that car [...]
