Audi was looking to add a new member to its “RS” lineup near the turn of the millennium. It chose to build something based on the A6 from its upper mid-range. That’s how the now iconic RS 6 moniker was born which debuted in the summer of 2002 and is now celebrating its 20th birthday. […]
There was a time when a fast or performance focussed four-door luxury sedan would be a description befitting the likes of the BMW M5 or the Mercedes-Benz AMG E63. Then Porsche joined the fast luxury game with the Panamera that packed more speed and more luxury, especially in its latest avatar. So, Mercedes built an […]
The genre of sporty, executive sedans has been a mostly European exercise dominated by Mercedes-Benz and BMW. But that’s not to say that other carmakers have not attempted their takes on this niche market catering to tyre-smoking executives. An American contender of the segment has now resurrected itself: Cadillac. Fans of the Matrix movies and […]
Most of BMW’s recent press coverage has been around its various marketing goofs and ridiculing the awful-looking grilles of the new M3 and M4 models. But the carmaker’s latest release is a return to something less divisive – a more powerful version of the M5 sedan and the most powerful M production car till date. […]
Its facelift time!! That’s right, all our favourite German sedans are a few years into their current generation and ripe for a slew of minor updates and tweaks. As it happens, the BMW and Mercedes have unveiled the facelifted versions of their business-spec sports cars around the same time, so I figured why not take […]
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