Here are six must-read, must-watch auto news stories, reviews, and videos for Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Your normal news editor, Steffani, is off today.
INSIDE THE AUTO BUSINESS
Forecasters anticipate that results to be released this coming Friday will reveal America’s best April auto sales since 2001. A 6% year-over-year increase would translate to 1.47M new vehicle sales in April. Last month, auto sales increased just 0.5% compared with March 2014.
RECALL
No change since yesterday’s Golf, GTI, A3, and Sentra recalls.
TTAC
The Z4’s poor performance in the U.S. market – an all-important market for sports cars – helps us understand why BMW believes the sports car market will never recover.
AUTOFOCUS
Canada’s 25 fastest-growing new vehicle nameplates in the first-quarter of 2015 include vehicles as varied as the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and the Volkswagen Golf.
REVIEW
evo’s David Vivian has driven the new Jaguar XE. The key line? “We absolutely adore it.”
WATCH
Familiar with Alan Partridge? Played by Steve Coogan (who’s rumoured to be a possible Top Gear presenter), Partridge did, by times, drive a Lexus.
Perfectly explained. All detail, slowly and gradually. Otherwise, car is great. Dashboard is just great!