Posts Tagged ‘Cannonball Baker’
If you're buying an A8 this year, prepare to spend a lot of time getting to know your new MMI system. We have consistently thought that Audi's buttons-and-knob interface is the best, and it looks like they've put an entire NASA team on the job of making it better. A seven-inch TFT screen with 800x40......
Audi launches A4
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Audi today launched the new A4 in India. Similar to the global market, the new A4 in India will challenge the Mercedes C-class and BMW 3 series. “We are expecting to sell 1,000 of our cars in the Indian market in 2008 as compared to 350 cars last year on the back of growing demand for luxury cars ......
Officially Official: 2009 BMW 7 Series
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the new 7 SeriesBMW has officially announced the details pertaining to the 5th generation 7 Series, so let's cut right to the chase. In Europe, there are five models arriving on the market in November of this year: the 730d; the 740i and Li; and the 750i and Li.......
Next BMW iDrive to take cues from Audi’s MMI
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
We've already gotten a sneak peak of what the 2009 BMW 7-series will look like on the outside ahead of its official launch, but the interior – and iDrive in particular – is still veiled in a cloak of secrecy. However, Bimmerfile has supposedly gotten the inside dope on the new multi-function bru......
Audi’s new MMI system will debut in Q5
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Click on image above for a high-res photo gallery of the Audi Q5
Audi's next-gen Multi-Media Interface (MMI) technology will debut in the new Audi Q5 compact crossover arriving later this year. Built by Harmon/Becker Automotive Systems, it is reportedly going to set benchmarks for automotive navigat......
Mercedes C-class Pictorial Review Interiors
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Modern cars should be stylish, powerful and handle good but for the sake of all these they cannot make a car with a poor living room. Yes, buyers have become more demanding they care for everything. Also the C-Class customer pool is the most diverse of any Mercedes. It has to offer something for eve......
Bullrun participants may have broken Cannonball NYC-to-LA Run record
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Before the start of the 2007 Bullrun rally last Saturday in Montreal, participants Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collonis bet their fellow Bullrun buddy Jay Riecke $50,000 that they could beat the longstanding cross-country rally record of driving from New York City to L.A. set by Dave Heinz and Dave ......
Winding Road arrives at One Lap of America
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions and our own little slice of the seventh layer is being forced to sit on the sidelines as this year's One Lap of America begins... without us. Thankfully, Chris Paukert, our colleague from Winding Road, will be reporting back on the happenings of the 200......
Cannonball Run returning to U.S. this summer
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
The Cannonball Run is returning to America. Named for the highly illegal (and surely equally entertaining) Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash founded by Car & Driver vet Brock Yates, this celeb and party-soaked cross-country run is actually an unsanctioned offspring of the ......