The basic idea rattling around inside all of BMW — including BMW’s Mini brand — can be boiled down to this: I love everything about you, now change. BMW will argue this is nonsense, that its massive investments in “green” and connected technologies are entirely consistent with the brand’s “Ultimate Driving Machine” promise. What …
2016 VW GTI and Golf R: brilliant engineering from the authors of Dieselgate
The depth and breadth of Volkswagen’s self-immolation – the utter mendacity of this Dieselgate scandal that involves dozens of models, six years of production, billions in settlement costs and an unfolding leadership crisis that may yet lead to criminal prosecution – casts a very dark cloud over the company’s unaffected models, most notably the Golf …