Matt Davis
European Contributor, Autoblog
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.
2013 Mercedes A45 AMG 4Matic [w/video]
United States customers desiring one of the new smaller AMG models from Mercedes-Benz will really enjoy their 2014 CLA45. It's swift, authoritative, more alive in your hands than any other AMG model has ever been, and it's the only compact practical AMG you'll ever be able to get anyway.
BMW i3 starts near $35,000; NA first deliveries January 2014
While in Germany at the first early pre-production drives of the hotly anticipated BMW i3, BMW people finally hinted at a price ballpark. Numbers being tossed around by pundits have actually been pretty close to what BMW is discussing internally - between $35,000 and just over $40,000. We have been assured now that
2014 Mercedes C63 AMG Edition 507 [w/video]
Okay, so, crucify me. I pursued this steaming-hot Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Edition 507 ever since the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, wanting – for all practical North American audience purposes – either the sedan or the coupe version. I assumed right up until the time of the drive near Stuttgart that such had been clearly understood.
2013 Seat Leon SC
Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, otherwise known as Seat, started becoming a part of the Volkswagen universe of companies way back in June of 1983, and it has taken right up until its latest generation of models for all the benefits of the VW Group empire to come to bear. Prior to the past couple of years, Seats have continued being built and sold passably well with a healthy enough rapport with Matt Davis
2013 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este dominated by Ralph Lauren's Bugatti [w/video]
On this past long weekend while Americans were celebrating Memorial Day, the very American Ralph Lauren was cleaning up tidily at this year's Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in northern Italy on the western shore of Lake Como. It rained the first day on and off and this lowered a little the spirits of the event, but Sunday was a knockout Day Two and, at any rate, nothing put the kibosh on Lauren's 1938 Matt Davis
McLaren P1 guru spills more info on his hypercar
We know the McLaren P1 is pretty much ready to fly into lucky US owners' underground bunkers by the latter part of fall 2013. We should get a go at an early production version by late June, we are told, and as you would imagine, we can't wait. The running number on the price for the United States remains pegged at $1.15 million.
2014 BMW Z4 sDrive35is
The BMW Z3/Z4 roadster has never really had a truly widespread following because it has either been too humble and small a roadster (albeit with some fun and very low-volume M editions) or it has been – in this E89 generation – too casual an image leader with no racier aspirations. The current 480-hp Z4 GTEs don't count, since they are as stock a Z
Audi S3 Sedan boasts SAE 296 hp, 0-60 in 4.7 seconds
The (technically speaking) 2015 Audi S3 sedan should start at right near $39,000.
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