Chevrolet Volt: First d...

Filed under: First Drive Think you’ve seen this car before on Autoblog before? Well, you’d be right, as we’ve already driven an early European car to the Frankfurt Motor Show last year and more recently we’ve had the chance to drive the Volt’s sister car,...

Seat Ibiza Cupra Concep...

The Spanish brand Seat has historically been the weakest of the Volkswagen Group’s portfolio. For decades, the manufacturer license-built Fiat products; VW bought Seat in the 1980s to be an entry-level brand, but Ferdinand Piech’s wish to transform it into an Alfa Romeo...

Full Pricing Announced ...

Acura has released full pricing for its new Civic-based ILX compact sedan. Read on for itemized equipment and pricing information, and be sure to check out our freshly published first-drive review here . Standard equipment for all ILX models includes manually adjustable cloth seats,...

2013 Acura ILX First Dr...

Battered Acura realizes that if it wants more up-and-comers to climb aboard, it needs to drop a longer ladder. And, possibly, design better-looking cars. Hence, the 2013 ILX, a Civic-based price leader built in Greensburg, Indiana, and hitting showrooms now, starting at about $27,500, or...

SEAT Ibiza: First drive...

Filed under: First Drive Now in its fourth-generation, the SEAT Ibiza has been the backbone of the Spanish range since its launch in 1984. The current car looks sharp, but this supermini is almost four-years old and SEAT has taken the opportunity for a face-lift. We headed to Barcelona...

SEAT Ibiza: First drive...

Filed under: First Drive Now in its fourth-generation, the SEAT Ibiza has been the backbone of the Spanish range since its launch in 1984. The current car looks sharp, but this supermini is almost four-years old and SEAT has taken the opportunity for a face-lift. We headed to Barcelona...

Nissan Juke-R: First dr...

Filed under: First Drive Sitting innocuously in the corner of a hangar at Nissan’s Sunderland plant in the company of a GTR, 370Z and the Leaf Nismo RC, the Juke-R stands out on it’s own as a brutish, hardcore car. And for good reason, for this is the world’s fastest...

2013 Volkswagen CC Firs...

In designing the latest Jetta and the U.S.-market Passat , Volkswagen didn’t take many aesthetic risks. Their innocuous, slab-sided shapes reflect modern, strip-mall Americana as much as they contrast the elegance of the brand’s other U.S.-market sedan, the eminently European CC ....

McLaren MP4-12C: First ...

Filed under: First Drive With 0-62mph acceleration in just 3.3 seconds and a claimed top speed of 205mph, the McLaren MP4-12C has all the performance credentials of a proper supercar. But what is it like to drive? Well after two years anticipation, Autoblog became one of a select band of...

Audi A1 Sportback: Firs...

Filed under: First Drive Audi’s multi-award winning premium A1 supermini has sprouted a couple of doors and the result is the Sportback. With the UK being the biggest export for the A1, is the Sportback the practical solution for those put off by three-doors? We headed to...