http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/shared/handlers/rsshandler.ashx?N=4294781386+499+225+266&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | Reviews | Georg Kacher | 4 | 3 RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30Forget everything you knew about the Mercedes A-class. The new model is totally different in appearance, concept and character, bearing zero resemblance to the original entry-level Mercedes from 1998 that made the elk famous by failing the stability test named...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Mercedes-A250-Sport-2013-CAR-review/Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:30:00 GMTReviewsThe new Maserati Quattorporte goes on UK sale in June 2013, priced from around £110,000. Is the Italian Jax XJ and Audi A8 rival worth it? We've driven the flagship 3.8-litre bi-turbo V8 to find out. When the covers are pulled off...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Maserati-Quattroporte-38-V8-2013-CAR-review/Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:00:00 GMTReviewsThe Porsche Panamera GTS makes all the right noises, feels almost as fast as a Panamera Turbo and is kitted out accordingly. If your budget does not stretch to the Turbo S, this is the Panamera to have. But beware...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Porsche-Panamera-GTS-2012-CAR-review/Fri, 11 May 2012 10:31:00 GMTReviewsThis is the new BMW 1-series M Coupe, and it signals a significant departure for BMW’s famed M Division. After generations of high-revving, naturally aspirated engines, BMW M is being forced down the forced induction route in a bid to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/BMW-1-series-M-Coupe-2011-CAR-review/Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is the Maybach 57S Xenatec Coupe. Swabian coachbuilder Xenatec is converting the Maybach 57 limousine into the opulent Maybach 57S Xenatec Coupe – of which it plans to sell 200 units at £595,000 each, plus tax.  Xenatec Coupes can be serviced at Maybach dealers,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Maybach-57S-Xenatec-Coupe-2011-CAR-review/Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:00:00 GMTReviewsIt's been three years since former Aston Martin designer Henrik Fisker displayed his Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid concept car, and with full production looming in 2012 CAR has now tried a pre-production Karma at Fontana Raceway near Fisker's headquarters in...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Fisker-Karma-2011-CAR-review/Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMTReviewsThis is BMW's latest M car, the 1-series M Coupé. When it hits UK roads in May 2011, the 1-series M Coupé will go head-to-head with the new Audi RS3. Both produce 335bhp and 332lb ft of torque, have a sub-five second...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/BMW-1-series-M-Coupe-2010-CAR-review/Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:30:00 GMTReviewsSo what exactly is the new Audi A7? It’s Audi’s answer to the Mercedes CLS, a luxury saloon that thinks it’s a coupé. Unlike the CLS, but like the Porsche Panamera, Aston Rapide and BMW 5-series GT, the Audi has...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A7-30-TDi-SE-CAR-review/Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:47:00 GMTReviewsWhen the original Mk1 VW Touareg was released in 2002, CAR Magazine drove it across North Africa and even let the real Tuareg tribespeople have a go in it across the Sahara. Now our own Georg Kacher has had a go in the latest hybrid version....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/VW-Touareg-Hybrid-2010-CAR-Review/Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:52:00 GMTReviewsI didn’t realise Audi was doing a long-wheelbase A4. Is there no niche left unexplored? A4? This is the new 2010 Audi A8, Ingolstadt’s technological flagship, a limo built around a supercar-style aluminium spaceframe and boasting the sort of toys...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-A8-42-TDi-SE-2010-web-drive/Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:00:00 GMTReviewsWhat’s this? Bentley’s answer to the Renault R26R? Well they’re not exactly rivals, but the concept is similar: more performance, less weight and much less seating thanks to the deletion of the rear chairs. And to save everyone else having...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Bentley-Continental-Supersports-CAR-review/Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMTReviewsWe’ve already driven the Porsche Panamera S. The comfort oriented, two-wheel drive, normally aspirated version of the new four-seater left us feeling less than infused. Enter the Panamera Turbo, the twin-blown 4.8-litre V8 pinnacle of Porsche’s supercar-cum-limo. Could the £100k...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Porsche-Panamera-Turbo-2009-CAR-review/Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:30:00 GMTReviewsBentley has given its monstrously quick but vaguely anonymous Flying Spur a mild facelift and introduced the aptly entitled Speed go-faster pack to further distance itself from top-end V12-powered Mercedes, BMW and Audi models. What’s been done to the base...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Bentley-Flying-Spur-Speed-CAR-review/Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:23:00 GMTReviewsThe new Audi S4 is either Ingolstadt’s idea of a bad joke or a stroke of genius. If you follow the former line of thought, then you’re from the camp that thinks the economy has jumped off a cliff, gone...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S4-saloon-2008-CAR-review/Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:00 GMTReviewsThe Cadillac CTS-V is a super saloon to make BMW M5 drivers feel inadequate. And with a huge 6.2-litre V8 it has the cubic capacity and cylinder count to match the Mercedes AMG trio of C, E and CLS 63....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Cadillac-CTS-V-2008-CAR-review/Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMTReviewsThe new Artega GT is a Porsche Cayman S rival at 911 money from a brand new German manufacturer. Delusions of grandeur? Perhaps not, because the chief advisor to the project is Karlheinz Kalbfell, an ex-BMW man who helped launch...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Artega-GT-2008-CAR-review/Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:50:00 GMTReviewsThe Brabus Bullit is for those people who look at fast German saloons and just see underpowered four-doors. If you want the Bullit, you’re the sort of person who reckons the Mercedes C63 AMG is lethargic. Merc S65 AMG? Just...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Brabus-Bullit-CAR-review/Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMTReviewsThe Infiniti FX50 will be the upmarket Japanese brand’s most expensive car when the company launches into Europe in autumn 2008. At an estimated £50k and with big 4x4s about as popular as a Cadbury's teapot right now, it’s a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Infiniti-FX50S-driven/Mon, 05 May 2008 15:21:00 GMTReviewsCitroen caused a stir when it unveiled the new C5. This is a class where Renault admits to making the Laguna purposively conservative. Where Citroen’s sister company Peugeot makes the middle-of-the-road 407. So when the covers came off the C5...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Citroen-C5/Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:28:00 GMTReviewsWhy is VW so late to the 4x4 party? Blame management, complicated model cycles and just about every other excuse under the sun. And speaking of the sun, those countries from the land of the rising sun have been doing...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/VW-Tiguan-20-TDi/Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:38:00 GMTReviewsVolkswagen took their time unleashing this handsome devil Yes, the previous VW management dithered, discussed and delayed the project until it was almost past its sell-by date. In July 2007, two full years behind the original schedule, the third-generation Golf...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/VW-Golf-Estate/Fri, 11 May 2007 07:22:00 GMTReviewsHave I missed something? How can we be reading about an S5 when we haven't even had an A5? Because Audi knew BMW was going to launch its M3 this spring and wanted to spoil the Munich firm's thunder. So...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Audi-S5/Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:20:00 GMTReviewsWho would buy a CL when they could have an S-class or, more likely, an SL? You’d be surprised just how many people have fallen for the blend of S-class refinement, seating for four and a sharper package. Merc has...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Mercedes-CL600/Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:54:00 GMTReviewsI'm imagining loads of huge new Benzes appearing at random, a different one wherever I look… Calm down. Deep breath. You're not hallucinating - there really are new Mercs every which way at the moment. And they just seem to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Mercedes-GL500/Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:23:00 GMTReviewsThe Porsche Cayenne Turbo, doyen of the noveau riche and Premiership footballers. What's new about this? This is no 'ordinary' Cayenne Turbo, not that there's much ordinary about a 444bhp SUV that hits 62mph from stop as fast as a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Porsche-Cayenne-Turbo-S/Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:02:00 GMTReviews