Archive for October, 2007

2008 Opel Agila

Opel opts for pizazz over practicality with a new five-door Agila that becomes more city car than microvan. The five-seater is not as deep into functional territory as the current model that was based on the Suzuki Wagon R+ and racked up more than 440,000 sales across Europe.
The second-generation Agila, making its world debut […]

Bugatti EB16.4 Veyron Pur Sang

Bugatti succeeded in making one of the most outrageous cars on the planet, the 1001-hp, 253-mph EB16.4 Veyron. It’s the only car you can buy that’s as luxurious and safe as a Mercedes SL and as fast as a Formula 1 car. What could possibly make such a car more spectacular? A naked carbon-fiber and […]

2009 Porsche Cayenne GTS

Our relationship with the Porsche Cayenne has been love/hate from the beginning. First, the idea—let alone the execution—of a big, heavy Porsche ute was something not everyone loved.  But Porsche gave all Cayenne models a serious power upgrade for ’08, which we all loved. Then it announced the Cayenne hybrid, which put some of us […]

2008 Subaru Justy

The Justy, a small car that hasn’t been imported to the U.S. since the early ’90s, is still being sold by Subaru in Europe. It might be sold by Subaru, but the car is actually built and almost entirely engineered by Japanese carmaker Daihatsu. Daihatsu, like the original Justy, had a foray into the U.S. market […]

2008 Peugeot 207SW RC and 308SW Prologue

A French sport wagon? Say it a couple times out loud, and it doesn’t get any less strange-sounding. That’s especially true when the sport wagon in question is based on a super-mini-hatchback.
Introduced for 2007, the 207 family tree includes three- and five-door hatches, along with a convertible and a small van. Therefore, the 2008 […]

2009 BMW 128i & 135i Convertibles

We are already salivating at the prospect of BMW’s 1-series coupe coming to the U.S. in February with rear-drive dynamics and the twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six from the 3-series.
And now, confirmation of the icing on the cake: The convertible will go on sale here next spring as well, in time for some droptop driving next […]