Articles in Diesel Road Tests
BMW EVolve Test Drive: Are You EV Compatible?
BMW unveiled the BMW ActivE in New York City along with BMW EVolve, an app that lets drivers pretend they have an electric car. Available for the iPhone and, later this month, for the Android …
2011 BMW 535d Sedan Review and Road Test
When a model is responsible for 50% of your company’s profit – and you are replacing it with a brand new vehicle – you have to get it right. BMW has been making the 5 …
2011 Volkswagen Touareg TDI Review and Road Test
The all-new 2011 Volkswagen Touareg is the second generation of the SUV built on a shared Volkswagen Group platform in Bratislava, Slovakia alongside its platform cousins, the Audi Q7 and the Porsche Cayenne.
The Touareg, …
Mercedes-Benz ML350 BlueTec Review and Test Drive
Mercedes-Benz, as the inventor of the diesel passenger car in the 1930s, has an unspoken obligation to lead and innovate. In this role, the automaker has been steadily adding to its U.S. lineup of diesel-powered …
2012 Toyota Prius PHV First Look, Review, and Road Test
The Toyota Prius, first introduced in 1997 and now in its third generation, is the world’s standard bearer in hybrid-electric automobiles. It’s also the most fuel-efficient vehicle sold in the U.S. Toyota, however, does …
Lexus CT 200h First Look, Road Test and Review
While the Toyota Prius has long reigned as king of the hybrids, its relatively barebones interior and quirky design have left some buyers wanting a more luxurious Prius, more on the order of a Lexus. …
2011 BMW X3 Review and Road Test – The Road to Berchtesgaden
The streets around Munich were heavily covered with snow as I picked up our second-generation BMW X3 xDrive20d but I wasn’t worried. It was the perfect weather for the X3 to demonstrate its abilities.
The X3 …
2011 BMW X3 – First Look
BMW introduced the first generation X3 Sports Activity Vehicle in 2003 at the 57th Internationale Automobil Ausstellung in Frankfurt. Built in Graz, Austria, over 600,000 of the original X3s were sold, including 150,000 in the …
BMW 535d Review and Road Test Part I: The Road to Burghausen
The 2011 BMW 535d is the flagship diesel-powered sedan in the sixth generation of BMW’s vaunted 5er Reihe (5er Series), code-named F10. The 5er Series is very important to BMW as it accounts for a …
BMW 120d Cabriolet Review – The Road to Mülheim
It was a grey, rainy, and hazy afternoon when I arrived at the airport in Düsseldorf on Wednesday. The computer of my Sixt rental car, a BMW 120d convertible, reported a temperature of 5°C (41°F). …
2011 Chevrolet Volt Review – Test Drive
What may be most remarkable about the new Chevrolet Volt is how unremarkable it actually is compared to a normal, gasoline-powered automobile. Gone is the futuristic exterior of the original concept car; the Volt now …
2011 Mercedes-Benz E350 BlueTec Diesel Review and First Look
Mercedes-Benz invented the diesel-powered passenger auto in the 1930s (as well as the passenger car itself a few decades earlier) and some of the Mercedes diesels sold in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, …
