There’s nothing like the sound of screeching brakes and the smell of burning rubber to get a farmer’s heart pounding when a car is coming up behind his tractor at 60 mph.
Often, the farmer can’t get out of the way as someone comes within a split second of crashing into the back end of a huge, slow-moving machine.
Daimler said it’s having trouble meeting orders for its Mercedes-Benz brand as all-time-high August sales put premium-car manufacturers on course for record full-year deliveries.
By most accounts, General Motors is on a roll. U.S. small car sales were up a phenomenal 229 percent during the second quarter of 2013 versus the same period last year, with sales of Chevrolet cars and Cadillacs up 31 percent and 34 percent, respectively.
But according to Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America, “there’s no fist bumps and high fives” when it comes to California.
Brabus has unveiled a B63S 6×6 based on the G63 AMG 6×6 with 690bhp from a modified 5.5-litre V8 Biturbo. As a refresher the standard model packs 536bhp.
quattro is Audi and Audi is quattro — the brand and the technology are indelibly linked. In celebration of the 30th birthday of the Sport quattro, Audi will present its legitimate successor at the 2013 IAA in Frankfurt am Main.
