Drive It! presents VW and Porsche models for around town and discovers some very exotic sets of wheels - from yesteryear and today.Present it! VW TiguanVolkswagen is launching the second generation of the Tiguan. Among the highlights is the latest edition of "4MOTION Active Control" for even better traction.The "Snow" mode is said to deliver increased safety and stability both on straight roads and when maneuvering curves. Drive It! put a 2-liter 132 kW version of the all-wheeler with 7-speed dual-clutch transmission through its paces on an ice lake in northern Sweden. Test it! Lada Kalina WagonThe Kalina is intended to give Lada a foothold in the European market. It’s certainly making an impact on the price front. It’s available as a hatchback version for under €7,000 on the German market.Drive It! checks out the wagon edition and examines whether the Kalina at least covers consumers' basic mobility needs, or whether the initial joy over the low purchase price is rapidly replaced by the sober realization that you actually wanted more. We find it’s like driving in the late 1990s.Taste it! Porsche Cayman GTSThere are over 50 Porsche models out there. This time we look at the closed-top, cute little Cayman - specifically, the GTS version. It has 250 kW of output and reaches a top speed in excess of 280 km/h.All GTS models boast excellent handling - thanks in no small part to standard-fitted adaptive damping, and a body lowered by 10 mm. The PASM button on the center console enables the driver to choose between the "Normal” and "Sport” programs. The optional Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV) further enhances steering and agility around bends.Examine It!: Safety - new crash-test methods for compact carsIn a head-on collision, enormous forces are brought to bear on both passengers and cargo, even at low speeds. Now the German Automobile Club ADAC is trying out new testing methods to see how various passenger cars behave in accidents.Rather than slam two cars into one another head-on, the test car is driven into a moving aluminum block. The damage done to the block can then be analyzed to shed light on how the test vehicle's passive safety features absorb the energy of the impact. Even if state-of-the-art assistance systems help to keep collisions from ever occurring, there is still much room for improvement in terms of passive safety. The tests reveal huge differences between the cars. Vintage: the Rometsch BeeskowThe Rometsch Beeskow was a stroke of design genius. At one time, it was common practice to buy just a driveable chassis from a car maker and then have the body custom-made by a coachbuilder - such as the Friedrich Rometsch Co. which was founded in 1924 in Berlin.Here, after the Second World War, the designer Johannes Beeskow was tinkering with a soon-to-be-junked VW Beetle and came up with a special body fitted to the Beetle chassis. The company head was so impressed that he took it into volume production. Soon, the design was a worldwide hit. Even so, just seven years and 280 hand-made special models later, Beeskow closed up shop. Drive It! tells this very one-of-a-kind story.