Tag: first drives

Remember the horsepower wars of the 1960s? In still another twist on Mark Twain’s saying, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” the car industry is humming its 50-year-old, one-upmanship song that is horsepower again. But now there’s a verse, with the lyrics & ldquo; miles of rdquo & battery array; instead of &…

No matter what Tesla asserts, only one full size luxury sedan competition things in the U.S.–Mercedes-Benz S-Class vs BMW 7 Series. The Audi A8? It hardly outsold the Jaguar XJ last year and lost out to the Genesis G90. No matter how good a vehicle it is, another two are in another league sales-wise. Unfortunately…

I ease the muscle, four-door that is low-slung on the road and to the Friday morning visitors. The acceleration is both swift and largely quiet. A complain that is distant rises in pitch as rate rises, followed closely by the of tires that are 22-inch that are low-profile in war with a stiffly sprung calibrated…