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The Audi A3 was introduced in Europe in 1996 as a three-door hatchback, as was its successor in 2003.  In the United States, it was sold as a five-door “Sportback,” and, as my colleague Dan Collins noted in these pages in 2012, it “stood relatively unchallenged as a compact premium …

There are some conditions that even the best winter tires can’t cope with.  This includes some of the severe weather the U.S. has seen over the past two months.  Once the roads are usable, winter tires are a must, and in many places outside of the U.S. the annual change …

When it comes to the four-door coupe segment, automotive enthusiasts fall into two groups. One consists of those who do not understand why Mercedes-Benz created this niche segment in 2004 when it introduced the CLS, the second group is in love with the concept of an elegant and luxurious four-door …

The first station wagons (which are called estate cars in the rest of the English-speaking world and Kombis in the German-speaking world), evolved from trucks, not cars, and, in their earliest days, were a status symbol.  Indeed, the Chrysler Town and Country wagon was the most expensive car among the …

Back in 1999, when BMW was busy introducing the X5 Sport Activity Vehicle (which was the Bavarian automaker’s way of explaining it was not offering an SUV, at least not a typical one, while emphasizing the car’s on-road strengths), the blue-and-white faithful were in a state of disbelief.  How could …

Audi is surging forward in the U.S. diesel market with the introduction of three new diesel-powered models, the A6 sedan, the A7 sportback, and the Q5 midsize crossover. All three use the recently updated 240-horsepower 3.0-liter V6 turbodiesel that is already available in the A8 and Q7, as well as …

This is a review that I first started to write several years ago, when the BMW 335d was my daily driver.  As much as I loved that car, my imagination went wild and I longed for the larger, more luxurious 5 Series as a diesel. The BMW 335d was half …

The seventh generation Volkswagen Golf TDI is a great car and no, you can’t have one – at least not until some time next year when it reaches these shores as a 2015 model.
Earlier in the week, I spent the better part of a day motoring around in a European-spec …

For 2014, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class family is receiving a mid-life refresh but it’s the most extensive facelift we’ve seen and probably the most ambitious in the history of the marque.  Indeed, the new E-Class looks more like a new model than some completely new introductions in recent years.
In the case …

The Audi A8 was not the first large German luxury sedan, but for a time, it was somewhat of a “best kept secret” for executives in snowy climates and foreign heads of state seeking more discretion than a Mercedes S-Class could provide. Twenty years later, the A8 is quite recognizable, …

After One Year, Dan Collins and David Goldes Are Sad to Say Good-Bye
More often than not, getting a new car is considered to be a good thing. It’s the new car smell, a car still free of that scratch that months or years later still curse yourself for, and one …

The diesel market in the United States has been controlled by German automakers, namely Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volkswagen, for the past decade or so.  Although the Chevrolet Cruze Diesel is the first diesel auto to appear in the U.S. from one of the Big Three automakers, it has …