With 362 bhp, the brand new S5 is not any specific step up from earlier than. The outdated S4 had 349bhp earlier than it acquired a diesel engine and the rival BMW M340i has 369bhp, however, as we’ll see, that is sufficient for a pleasant quick sports activities saloon. Regardless of being very barely underpowered …
“The important thing to immortality is to first reside a life price remembering.” Poignant phrases from historical past’s most harmful dragon, Bruce Lee. However this story will not be in regards to the ‘Dragon’. It is about one other dragon, the Toyota Sera ‘Twin Dragon.’ A becoming title, given by its mad scientist creator, Takuro …
Typically talking, no person errors a Toyota for a Ferrari. However at this yr’s Tokyo Auto Salon, an SUV with yellow shields, a daring face, and quad exhaust suggestions protruding of a slick decrease fascia appeared on the present ground. And it wasn’t a Purosangue. The fake Ferrari was created by Aero Over, a Japanese-based …
You would possibly take a look at the three.3-litre capability of the Mazda’s straight six and surprise the way it manages to make solely barely extra energy (197bhp) than the BMW X3 20d’s 2.0-litre (188bhp). By comparability, that is a selected output of simply 60bhp per liter for the Mazda, versus 94bhp per liter for …
In what’s now an annual custom at Motor1, we’re kicking off 2025 by sending numerous emails to automakers to see what handbook transmission gross sales have been just like the earlier 12 months. This offers us a have a look at the state of the handbook in America, the place it’s actually not the dominant …
Toyota’s gross sales of electrified automobiles are within the stratosphere. The automaker now has a complete of 30 electrified fashions—probably the most of any model—together with hybrids, plug-in hybrids, gasoline cell automobiles and (admittedly few) absolutely electrical fashions. Other than a couple of luxurious Lexus automobiles and the hydrogen-powered Mirai, electrified Toyotas had a fantastic …
Audi suffered the most important gross sales drop inside the Volkswagen Group throughout 2024 in what has been a painful 12 months for the model. Bentley additionally had a tough 12 months throughout which the British model slipped beneath a record-selling Lamborghini for the primary time throughout their pairing inside the group. The largest winner …