Test Drives
If the traditional BMW customer were to sit inside of a new Toyota Land Cruiser, they’re probably roll their eyes. After they saw the price tag, their eyes would roll so hard they’d touch their…
Nico DeMattia / July 6, 2020
BMW M8
Back when the BMW M8 Competition Gran Coupe was first announced, fans had grand visions of a new generation of M6 Gran Coupe. That car was an oddity in the M Division lineup, as it…
Nico DeMattia / June 17, 2020
Interesting
Since doing this job, I’ve driven and reviewed so many cars I’ve forgotten most of them. Yet I can still clearly remember the tepid awfulness of the first-generation Audi Q3. In this modern era, there…
Nico DeMattia / March 12, 2020
Test Drives
Personally, I’ve never been a fan of SUV “Coupes”. Just the idea of them has never really appealed to me and I feel as if they’re inherently compromised, both as an SUV and as a…
Nico DeMattia / February 8, 2020
8 Series
TEST DRIVE: BMW M850i Gran Coupe — Great but not BMW’s Best Four Door
by Nico DeMattia / Date: January 8, 2020
Rolls Royce
I’m not a rich man. I never have been. So the idea of luxurious excess seems a bit ridiculous to me. As it does to the rest of the 99-percent. As a normal working-class man,…
Nico DeMattia / November 24, 2019
BMW M8
Back in the ’90s, BMW M engineers were working on a skunkworks project deep in the underbelly of the brand’s headquarters. It was a project that would only produce one prototype model, one which would…
Nico DeMattia / November 12, 2019
2 Series
There seems to be a lot of pessimism surrounding BMW’s latest crop of front-wheel drive-based cars. Both the BMW M235i Gran Coupe and the M135i hatch are drawing the ire of BMW enthusiasts the world…
Nico DeMattia / November 11, 2019
BMW Z4
Roadsters are dead. Gone. Finished. Gone are the days when customers yearned for the wind in their hair and the sound of burbling exhaust filling their ears. Instead, the modern car buyer wants something sensible,…
Nico DeMattia / November 1, 2019
BMW X3 M
Almost every BMW fan has been begging, pleading, scratching and clawing for an M3 Touring (wagon) to be made. The idea of a small, high-performance wagon from BMW M is absolutely ideal for most Bavarian…
Nico DeMattia / October 6, 2019
3 Series
Awhile back, I wrote an article in which I claimed that the BMW M340i was the first M Performance car that could actually keep me from buying a proper M car. What I meant by…
Nico DeMattia / September 16, 2019