Volkswagen’s crossover range always had some room at the top for a large seven seater SUV. Now the German manufacturer has made a step to fill that void with the VW Atlas. The American-made large SUV comes with seven seats and two punchy engines. The Atlas will also be the second VW product to be produced at the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, after the Passat.
We attended this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas, Nevada last week, courtesy of Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles. Better known as SEMA, it is arguably the largest tuner show in the world, although it is strictly a trade show, although it’s pretty crowded even without the general public being allowed in. The American brands were the most strongly represented on the show floor, followed by the Japanese, with a few dabbling in European and Korean makes. The stands generally consisted of aftermarket suppliers, tuning and restoration garages, wheel manufacturers and accessories outfits, among others. Major carmakers with custom concepts at the show included Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles,
German luxury auto-maker Mercedes-Benz showcased the X-Class Concept — a new pickup truck — on October 25 in Stockholm, disclosing few details.
The 5-series is one of BMW’s most popular models. Hot on the heels of the redesigned Mercedes-Benz E-Class comes the all-new 2017-2018 5-Series with a refreshed look and mechanicals, with a new range of powerplants to boot.
Audi was present and well at the Paris Motor Show 2016, and with them they brought the fastest and most powerful model in the A3 line-up, the Audi RS3 sedan. It also has the privilege of being the first compact sedan from Audi to adorn the RS nameplate.
Here’s a list of all the recalls for the month of September, some in the United States and some globally.
The year 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the BMW M3, the automotive icon which became a benchmark of sorts for the sports car segment in 1986 and remains so five generations later. The 30th anniversary of the BMW M3 gives us the opportunity to put the spotlight on four unique variants that, for obvious reasons, never made it past the prototype stage, namely, the BMW M3 Pickup from 1986, the BMW M3 Compact from 1996, the BMW M3 Touring from 2000 and the BMW M3 Pickup revealed in 2011.
Ferrari unveiled a successor to the FF, the GTC4Lusso, earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show. Powered by a naturally-aspirated 6.2-litre V12, the GTC4Lusso originally debuted as the fastest four-seater in the world. Now, the V12 powered GTC4 has been given some company in the form of a new Turbo V8 model, the GTC4Lusso T.
Land Rover revealed their latest iteration of their all-terrain SUV, the 2017 Discovery, at the 2016 Paris Motor Show.
Transformers have been a part of almost every boy’s childhood and having something as charismatic and enormous as Bumblebee for a pet would both be as much a technological wonder as it would be a dream come true.