The Week in Cars #3
All the best from the New York Auto Show 2018.
The NY show this year was, despite the Koenigsegg Regera poster car, not festooned with hypercars and track specials. The focus was more on practicality, with two pairs of classic rivals fighting it out for the sales advantage, if we're being brutally honest. Jaguar and Maserati both unveiled performance versions of their first SUVs, while Mercedes-AMG and Audi went into classic super-saloon warfare.
The Audi RS5 Sportback is a 4-door version of the dull Coupé version, and so is just as powerful, nearly as quick and slightly heavier, at 1840kg. That means 444bhp, 443lb ft of torque, 0-62mph in 4.1s claimed. You can read the whole story on it by clicking on these words.
The Mercedes C63 has been given a mid-life facelift, and by clicking on the link, you can learn the 503bhp monster's whole story, and the changes that have been made to the new one.
Over in the ever-expanding corner of the SUV family, two companies usually accustomed to building gorgeous GTs have spiced up their first SUVs, with enormous V8s being the theme. There's the 5.0l supercharged V8 of Jaguar's F-Pace SVR going up against the 3.9l TT V8 nestled in the engine bay of the Maserati Levante Trofeo, with 542bhp and 582bhp respectively.
Although the power and size figures seem similar, they only tell half the story. The SVR will cost about £75k, but the 'Feo will cost north of 100 grand. Option up some fancy wheels and paint, and you could have the fastest SUV by far ever, the Tesla Model X P100D, with a 0-62mph of just 2.9s. That plays the SVR's 4.3s and the Trofeo's 3.9s, the same
as Merc's £78k GLC63S and Porsche's £95k Cayenne Turbo S with the Performance Pack.
The V8s in both cars are linked to quad exhausts, cross-plane cranks and forced induction, so both sound hilarious. The Maser's V8 is even linked to Ferrari, but has a cross-plane crankshaft, while the Jaaaaaag's is used throughout JLR's SVO range.
I hope you enjoyed this edition of TWiC, and as usual you can always leave a comment to share your thoughts. TWiC will be back at some point next week, with all things car from the coming week.
The NY show this year was, despite the Koenigsegg Regera poster car, not festooned with hypercars and track specials. The focus was more on practicality, with two pairs of classic rivals fighting it out for the sales advantage, if we're being brutally honest. Jaguar and Maserati both unveiled performance versions of their first SUVs, while Mercedes-AMG and Audi went into classic super-saloon warfare.
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| The RS5 has been timed at 3.2s to 62, proper supercar pace. |
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| These two are classic saloon rivals, representing sensible vs stupid. |
The Mercedes C63 has been given a mid-life facelift, and by clicking on the link, you can learn the 503bhp monster's whole story, and the changes that have been made to the new one.
Over in the ever-expanding corner of the SUV family, two companies usually accustomed to building gorgeous GTs have spiced up their first SUVs, with enormous V8s being the theme. There's the 5.0l supercharged V8 of Jaguar's F-Pace SVR going up against the 3.9l TT V8 nestled in the engine bay of the Maserati Levante Trofeo, with 542bhp and 582bhp respectively.Although the power and size figures seem similar, they only tell half the story. The SVR will cost about £75k, but the 'Feo will cost north of 100 grand. Option up some fancy wheels and paint, and you could have the fastest SUV by far ever, the Tesla Model X P100D, with a 0-62mph of just 2.9s. That plays the SVR's 4.3s and the Trofeo's 3.9s, the same
as Merc's £78k GLC63S and Porsche's £95k Cayenne Turbo S with the Performance Pack.
The V8s in both cars are linked to quad exhausts, cross-plane cranks and forced induction, so both sound hilarious. The Maser's V8 is even linked to Ferrari, but has a cross-plane crankshaft, while the Jaaaaaag's is used throughout JLR's SVO range.
I hope you enjoyed this edition of TWiC, and as usual you can always leave a comment to share your thoughts. TWiC will be back at some point next week, with all things car from the coming week.
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