Automotive Review July + August 2023

Dear readers!

The future tense, as suggested by the current cover line, is a private tense. It’s tiring because you’re kind of looking back from some point in the future to something that will be in the past from that perspective but hasn’t happened yet. It will be one like the other: the McLaren Artura, which, as a hybrid car, best represents the super sports car’s possible form, taking none of the burden that one would take from the conceptual form. On the other hand: Dacia. The underdog who sets out to prove that the zeitgeist can be presented simply, intelligently, and affordably and that one made the right turn at the right time. Both developments are ongoing, and it remains to be seen what implications they will have. The future I apply to read: it will happen. Dacia from page 34, McLaren from page 48. The last Alpine excursion from 1973 is clearly a throwback to the past. However, it is also accompanied by a network of temporal levels, because Herbert Volcker reminded me back in February that this end will soon be the 50th anniversary, so we must put the release in time in time so that nothing goes wrong. So it was a long anticipation (future) of something that was a while ago (past), so in a way also future tense after reading the great story. It is titled “Ein Knall in der Klassik” and on page 108 represents the wonderful finale to our well-read summer edition.An absolute recommended read!

I listen
Susan Hofbauer

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Contents

a play

10 All news of the summer
New Mercedes E-Class, new Volvo EX90, car with ears, news from Honda and Erzbergrodeo.

wrappers

34 all Dacia
A refreshing rise for a car brand that (almost) makes those cars that others no longer trust: Lifestyle, but different.

48 McLaren Artura
The super sports car with a hybrid engine. Yes, it works, and how!

new

20 Renault Espace
22 Toyota Prius
24 Honda ZR-V e: HEV
26 Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe
28 Skoda Kodiaq
30 Performance Audi RS6
34 Dacia Manifesto, Spring Extreme, Bigster, Jogger, Sandero, Duster

a report

44 The e-car as a used vehicle
Constant improvements make buying used more difficult: what’s good, what’s too expensive, what should you look for?

Exam

48 McLaren Artura
56 BMW M 340i xDrive Touring
58 BMW XM
62 Fiat 500e convertible
66 Toyota Corolla 1.8 Hybrid
67 Mercedes-Benz B 200 d
68 Ford Ranger 2.0 EcoBlue AWD
70 VW ID.3
74 Opel Astra PHEV 180 hp
76 Maserati GranTurismo Modena

sports

82 Toto Wolfe
Adorning cover stories all over the world, Austria’s biggest sports star is a professor at Harvard University and lectures on Wall Street.

88 Racing Rocky 2023
Last chance, come on!

feature

6 Hiking letter to your dad
What does Balzac have to do with all this.

90 Jasper Bokenkamp, ​​restorer
First scooters, now Facel Vega.

96 What’s Left of a Volkswagen Beetle
The Hunt for Clues in Mexico, 20 Years After the End of Production: A Tale of Eternal Affection.

119 live more than 20 years
Werner Gessner and his everyday cars, minimum age 20: BMW 525iX.

122 backlight
Drone dashboard.

classic

100 ALWAYS RUFF AND ITS PROPTO
For a long time, prototype number 6 of the Porsche 911 was considered lost, even though it lived with Porsche refinery Ruf in Bavaria for decades.

108 Alpine Trip 1973
50 years ago, things went up again, Herbert Volcker was there.

opinion

13 Wolfgang Hofbauer
What about the smart car?

19 Susan Hofbauer
Think what other people don’t think.

87 Gerald Enzinger
of winning and losing.

Standards

16 fingerprints
47 markets
Exchange of 80 cars
120 Letters to the Editor
121 previews, notes

All cars in this issue

30 Performance Audi RS6
56 BMW M 340i xDrive Touring
58 BMW XM
34 Dacia Manifesto, Extreme Spring,
Bigster, Jogger, Sandero, Duster
62 Fiat 500e convertible
68 Ford Ranger 2.0 EcoBlue AWD
10 Honda C-HR
24 Honda ZR-V e:HEV
76 Maserati GranTurismo Modena
48 McLaren Artura
12 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Estate
26 Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe
67 Mercedes-Benz B 200 d
12 Mitsubishi Colt
74 Opel Astra PHEV 180 hp
20 Renault Espace
28 Skoda Kodiaq
22 Toyota Prius
66 Toyota Corolla 1.8 Hybrid
15 Volvo EX30
70 VW ID.3