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2022 Audi Q3 S Line Review – Sporty or Just Weird?

The Truth About Cars

That’s the proposition offered by the 2022 Audi Q3. The Q3 handles with a lively friskiness that’s just fun enough to liven up the dreary commute, though the steering feels, as if often the case these days with VW/Audi products, a bit too light and disconnected. Audi has made great strides in that area.

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Tesla Targeted By Rivals, Fuel-Economy Rule Review, Millennials And Cars: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

We''re back from the long holiday weekend with plenty of green-car news, including a report on how Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche are targeting Tesla with their own plug-in cars, possible outcomes of an upcoming midterm review of Federal fuel-economy rules, and how Millennials are approaching car ownership.

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2015 Audi A3 TDI Diesel: Fuel Economy Review

Green Car Reports

The 2015 Audi A3 is the first all-new version of the compact luxury car since it was launched in the U.S. as a 2006 model. And there are a lot of changes. Most noticeable is its evolution from a five-door hatchback to a four-door sedan, facing it off neatly against the Mercedes-Benz CLA (also a compact, front-wheel-drive sedan).

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Audi puts steel back in the new A8

Green Car Congress

The new Audi A8, scheduled for release in 2018, features a multi-material body structure ( earlier post ) consisting of more than 40% steel. However, each material used in vehicle production contributes to lightweighting and improves fuel economy, but each does so at a different cost to the manufacturer—and to the environment.

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2023 Cadillac CT4 Review – The Cure for the Common Bimmer?

The Truth About Cars

Fuel economy is listed as 21/29/24. I like the CT4 a lot as a sleeper alternative to the BMWs and Audis of the world, though it can’t win on value unless you skip SuperCruise and all-wheel drive. A respectable highway number, at least.

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2024 Genesis GV80 Review

Baua Electric

The MY25 Genesis GV80 ranges – which rivals the likes of the Audi Q7/Q8, BMW X5/X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Wagon and Coupe – adopts a revised global suspension tune adapted independently for the GV80 Coupe. The listed output is 279kW and 530Nm with ADR Combined cycle fuel economy of 11.7 litres per 100km. seconds the Coupe.

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2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Review — Bada Bing

The Truth About Cars

Fuel economy is said to be 29 mpg on the highway and 23 around town. But, anybody eyeballing the Mercedes-Benz GLA, Audi Q3, or BMW X1, would be an idiot to not at least take the Alfa Romeo Tonale for a test drive. Still, if you want to try and be frugal, the 14.8-kWh With help from the 90-kW electric motor, the 1.3-liter

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