Cars
Tony Stark wishes he had one of these
The racing version of the Audi R8 is built from the ground up, using the same basic aluminium spaceframe and 5.2-litre V10 engine as the road car. Everything else is geared...
Blue thunder
Singapore — While best known for its safety innovations, Volvo has tried to amp up the edginess before. It went a little power crazy in the 1990s, entering its 850 Estate in the...
What’s New
Chassis: The adaptive suspension system (Dynamic Chassis Control) has improved — it monitors more road variables and changes more suspension variables quicker. A new dynamic...
Original gangster
In 1976 the original Volkswagen Golf GTI began life as an experimental version of the Golf hatchback. Its runaway success, along with subsequent ups and downs, saw it become an...
What’s in a name?
Can’t decipher what a “Z4 sDrive 35is” is? We’ve got the answers. BMW uses the term “sDrive” for its rear-wheel drive cars (“xDrive” is for all-wheel-drive models), while “35”...
GTI with a twist
Not satisfied with merely raising the hot hatch bar to new levels, Volkswagen sent its latest Golf GTI to the gym. The pumped-up result debuted on Wednesday at Worthersee 2013,...
Seventh eleven
Like the regular hatchback it’s based upon, the Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk7 is the most advanced, tech-heavy iteration in the nameplate’s history.
A better life
Munich, Germany — This is a facelift of the BMW Z4, or as BMW calls it, LCI (Life Cycle Impulse). Apart from new trim and equipment packages, the Z4 LCI sees an addition to its...



