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Matt Davis

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Matt Davis has kept his home and studio in Milan, Italy, since 2001. To his bewilderment, he remains the only American car nut doing this job at a big-league level in Europe. Matt writes about and snaps photos of every brand of car for every important market worldwide. In the U.S., he has been European editor for Winding Road and European Car, was associate editor with Auto World Weekly, plus a correspondent for AutoWeek, Edmunds InsideLine, Esquire and others. He is co-founder and chairman of the World Car Awards and on the jury for the International Engine of the Year awards.

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    First Drive: 2013 Ferrari California [w/video]     1337011020

    A Rare Mid-life Updo Comes To The Starter Ferrari Every time I travel to Maranello for a test drive, the three hours or so prior to turning the red key are driven in a U.S. Interstate-style straight line along Italy's A1 autostrada in my 99-horsepower 2001 Opel Astra station wagon with ...

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    First Drive: 2013 BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe     1336492620

    BMW Takes On Mercedes And Audi In The Profit Margin Wars As the years go by, it's become the Germans who are most closely watching what each other are doing over the backyard fence. So much so, at times, that it can almost seem like they're freely swapping all their trade secrets ...

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    Featured: New details on the next Audi A3     1336149780

    We just attended a thorough workshop covering the tech inside the next Audi A3, the new compact from Ingolstadt that the U.S. gets in October 2013 as a five-door Sportback model, as well as a new four-door small sedan. A concept version of the four-door was shown at the Geneva Motor Show last ...

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    First Drive: 2013 Audi S6     1335974220

    Proof That Less Of Some Things Can Equal More. It's been fascinating to sample Audi's new greener edition of the EA824 V8 in all of its various incarnations. Our first crack at the new TFSI powerplant with cylinder-on-demand was in Audi's own 513-horsepower S8, and we then went on to try it out ...

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    First Drive: 2013 Audi S7     1335455820

    Performance With Poise As reaction settles down to news that Audi has scooped up Italian bikemaker Ducati right from under the nose of Mercedes-Benz for a cool billion, we can now get back to the four-wheeled performance Audi does best. And there are few better ways I can think of doing ...

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    Beijing: Lamborghini Urus super SUV officially unveiled in China     1335096000

    Everything You Want To Know About Lambo's Super SUV The promise is to make it the most powerful series production SUV on the market, but also the least polluting. Lamborghini has told us repeatedly that it wasn't planning on doing such a thing anytime soon. We expected most likely the ...

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    First Drive: 2012 Peugeot 208 [w/video]     1334851080

    Euro Hatch Icon Reclaims Some Of Its Mojo The challenge of small, efficient and clever hatchbacks catching on with the American masses is a long story that shows infrequent signs of becoming less challenging. The bottom line is that most U.S. consumers feel such vehicles are simply too small for ...

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    Quick Spin: 2012 Audi A6 Allroad Quattro biturbo diesel     1334159820

    Don't Get Too Attached To This Larger Allroad As an American living in Italy, there are often entire month-long stretches where I drive nothing but European cars that will sadly never come out to play on American soil. Such is the case for the abundantly adored Audi A6 Allroad Quattro seen here. ...

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    Official: Volkswagen Up! named 2012 World Car of the Year     1333632000

    As is tradition, Day Two of the 2012 New York Auto Show kicked off with the annual World Car of the Year awards. Global entries competed for honors in four different categories, and from the initial list of 34 contenders, the final four were selected this morning. The big winner was the 2012 ...

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    First Drive: 2013 Subaru BRZ [w/video]     1332777420

    Subaru Gives Us Their Sports Car On Real Roads. Does It Deliver? Last December, our wandering man of intrigue Jonathan Ramsey drove a Subaru BRZ prototype at Japan's Tochigi circuit under somewhat controlled conditions and was nonetheless very impressed. Then, in that same month, SoCal lad ...

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