News
I write mostly about German performance cars. Obviously, BMWs take up the lion’s share of my stories and reviews but other German brands are pretty heavily featured as well. And because of that, I tend…
Nico DeMattia / June 3, 2022
2 Series
BMW really isn’t the company it used to be. Yes, it still makes good sports cars and yes, it still makes brilliant engines. But BMWs of old were always about driving first and everything else…
Nico DeMattia / June 2, 2022
BMW X3
I may get kicked out of the car enthusiast club for saying this but one of my absolute favorite BMWs is actually a crossover — the X3 M40i. As much as we’re supposed to hate…
Nico DeMattia / February 17, 2022
2 Series
I recently had the chance to drive the all-new 2022 BMW M240i xDrive, to see if it really brought back that old-school BMW spirit, as its official corporate literature claimed. Judging by its spec sheet,…
Nico DeMattia / January 14, 2022
BMW M4
TEST DRIVE: BMW M4 Competition xDrive — Forget Tradition
by Nico DeMattia
/ Date: December 6, 2021
News
The end of the year is fast approaching, and BMW is determined to make efforts in order to keep its luxury sales crown in the United States by fighting off Lexus and Tesla. A new…
Adrian / November 19, 2021
News
I’m personally not overly fond of performance SUVs. In my experience, regardless of how impressive a high-powered SUV is, it’s never as fun as an actual sports car. And the added sportiness usually only makes…
Nico DeMattia / August 24, 2021
News
So far, I’ve really enjoyed my time in every Genesis vehicle I’ve driven. First was the G70 sedan, which I genuinely felt rivaled the 3 Series as a sporty, premium family car. Then it was…
Nico DeMattia / July 24, 2021
BMW M3
The fact that my job is among the most fun jobs in the world is not lost on me. I had the chance to drive a brand-new BMW M3 with a six-speed manual transmission for…
Nico DeMattia / July 20, 2021
BMW M3
I recently had the chance to drive the G80 BMW M3 with a manual transmission. It was the first G80 M3 I’d ever driven and it was a manual by request. When the chance to…
Nico DeMattia / June 15, 2021
BMW M3
For decades, the recipe for a BMW M3 remained the same — engine up front, manual transmission in the middle, and drive going to the back. BMW’s tweaked it a bit over the years; its…
Nico DeMattia / May 28, 2021