Audi’s cash machine malfunctions on limited V6, V8 production and other issues One stat leapt out from the Audi Group’s financial results from the first quarter of 2024: Lamborghini made more money than Audi. Bentley came close, too. That’s overall operating profit, not just profit per car. We all know how good margins can be on selling luxury...

Stuttgart’s latest big-daddy SUV raises the game for the iconic G-Wagen If you know the Mercedes G-Class as the Geländewagen or G-Wagen you may also know that it has served for longer in uninterrupted production than any other Mercedes passenger car. In 1979 Mercedes and part-owned subsidiary Steyr Daimler-Puch launched the original version, which...

The iconic G-Class silhouette shrouds a wholesale update that now makes the mighty and capable G63 a proper super SUV There’s a new electric G-Class and the ICE versions, including this bombastic Mercedes-AMG 63, have been hybridised. Has Graz gone woke? Are pigs soaring over fields with Beezlebub ice skating beneath them?The short answer is no....

High-end off-roader gets an EV variant with a motor for each wheel and a big battery If it looks like a G-Class, drives like a G-Class and sounds like a G-Class (more on that later), then it probably is a G-Class. The first electric G-Class – or, to use its clumsy proper name, the Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ Technology – sits alongside the regular...

Ferrari has invested heavily in making its atmo V12 compliant with emissions rules "We use turbochargers when we reduce displacement" says product boss, as Ferrari commits to atmo V12 Ferrari has invested heavily in making its V12 compliant with new emissions regulations without the need for turbocharging – and the brand is committed to...

Retro Rides began online in 2004 and is open to all models registered before 2000 This anything-goes celebration of heritage Volvos and supercharged Minis is more captivating than ever Buttonless key. Ignition barrel. Turn once. Turn again. Turn a third time. A screeching fanbelt whines before a multi-cylinder roar takes over then settles...