The Velostar's calling card is its unusual door concept. The driver side has one door, the other side has two. The Hyundai Velostar debuted in Germany four years ago, and those doors were a sensation. This year, the Korean manufacturer has sharpened the coupé's image a bit.The rakish sportscar now only comes with a 137-kilowatt turbocharged engine. A newly developed 7-speed dual clutch tramsmission replaces the previously optional 6-speed automatic torque converter, and the fuel-injection gasoline engine now fulfills all Euro 6 emissions norms.

For its vintage outing, this time Drive it! is going for the fastest and most exclusive Volkswagen of the 1980s. Make way for the Golf Rallye - the top of the line for the Golf II. Recaro bucket seats give an ambitious driver plenty of stability.The speedometer goes up to 260 kilometers an hour, making us wonder what the big bad Golf has under the hood. The Corrado's 1.8 liter, 4-cylinder engine was slightly reduced in size. From 1983 to 1992, a whopping 6 million Golf IIs were sold -- but only 5,000 Golf II Rallyes were ever built, starting in 1989.

Never before has Mercedes offered such a broad range of compacts: the A and B classes, the offroad GLA, the four-door, the CLA Coupé and now the CLA Shooting Brake, the station wagon among the Mercedes compacts.Unlike the car maker's classic estate car, known internally as the T-Model, the Shooting Brake is clearly more a Lifestyle station wagon that fuses design and roomy practicality. Visually, it inherits the contours of the coupé and lets them flow gracefully into the hatch of a station wagon's rear. But is the design as practical as it is striking? Drive It! tested the compact with the curvaceous rear for its handling and spaciousness.

The 44th edition of the Tokyo Motor Show is currently underway. Japanese carmakers celebrate their visionary side on home territory. Nissan is showcasing a revised concept study: the 2020 Vision Gran Turismo.Mazda, Toyota, and Lexus are at the starting gate with new visions, as well. European manufacturers have come to the fair, too, of course. BMW has its M4 GTS, an edition limited to 700 cars. Mini's exhibit is its new convertible. And Porsche is on hand with the all-wheel 4 and 4S versions of the 911 Carrera.

Automotive visions from Asia, new concepts of vehicle construction from Scandinavia - Drive It! presents the latest developments from around the world.Examine it! Tokyo Motor ShowThe 44th edition of the Tokyo Motor Show is currently underway. Japanese carmakers celebrate their visionary side on home territory. Nissan is showcasing a revised concept study: the 2020 Vision Gran Turismo.Mazda, Toyota, and Lexus are at the starting gate with new visions, as well. European manufacturers have come to the fair, too, of course. BMW has its M4 GTS, an edition limited to 700 cars. Mini's exhibit is its new convertible. And Porsche is on hand with the all-wheel 4 and 4S versions of the 911 Carrera. Test it! Volvo XC 90The XC 90 sees Volvo entering a new era. The second generation of the successful high-end SUV is the first vehicle the Swedes have based on their new scalable product architecture, which will be the basis for many future models.This is advantageous for weight and design, but also for development and production. The XC 90 is available with five or seven seats, and all versions come with state-of-the-art Drive-E four-cylinder engines. We tested the D5 diesel variant with 165 kW of power. Spot it! How to transport cargo and pets safelyMany drivers underestimate the importance of stowing cargo safely. Many people think they can just throw everything into the car and go. But if they get into an accident, cargo that has been wrongly or insufficiently secured can turn into a potentially fatal hazard.The same applies to transporting pets, like dogs. They too need to be well secured during driving - for their own safety and that of all car occupants. Drive It! shows how best to ensure cargo, passengers and animals all arrive at their destination safely. Taste it: Ford C-MaxAfter five years of production, Ford has given its successful C-Max an extensive facelift. The big radiator grille with lots of chrome gives the MPV a bolder presence, while the newly designed headlights have a more elegant look than in the old model.Things have changed under the hood, as well. Ford has shifted to the Euro 6 norm for all its engines. Our test car is powered by the new 4-cylinder 1.5-liter Ecoboost gasoline unit. Despite a modest capacity, it generates 110 kW and has a maximum torque of 240 Nm. Vintage: Karmann Ghia convertibleCoach-builder Karmann has always specialized in open-top cars. The plant in Osnabrück produced its first slick convertibles and coupes back in 1902. But its finest hour came in 1958 with the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

For the first time, a vehicle was named after the coach-maker that actually built it. And rightly so, because without Karmann company chief Wilhelm Karmann, this car would never have existed. In 1953 he won over the usually conservative VW boss Heinrich Nordhoff with a first prototype. The Karmann Ghia's design was totally unaccustomed in a German car in the 1950s. Its driving performance, on the other hand, lagged behind its dynamic appearance.

The XC 90 sees Volvo entering a new era. The second generation of the successful high-end SUV is the first vehicle the Swedes have based on their new scalable product architecture, which will be the basis for many future models.This is advantageous for weight and design, but also for development and production. The XC 90 is available with five or seven seats, and all versions come with state-of-the-art Drive-E four-cylinder engines. We tested the D5 diesel variant with 165 kW of power.

After five years of production, Ford has given its successful C-Max an extensive facelift. The big radiator grille with lots of chrome gives the MPV a bolder presence, while the newly designed headlights have a more elegant look than in the old model.Things have changed under the hood, as well. Ford has shifted to the Euro 6 norm for all its engines. Our test car is powered by the new 4-cylinder 1.5-liter Ecoboost gasoline unit. Despite a modest capacity, it generates 110 kW and has a maximum torque of 240 Nm.

Coach-builder Karmann has always specialized in open-top cars. The plant in Osnabrück produced its first slick convertibles and coupes back in 1902. But its finest hour came in 1958 with the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

For the first time, a vehicle was named after the coach-maker that actually built it. And rightly so, because without Karmann company chief Wilhelm Karmann, this car would never have existed. In 1953 he won over the usually conservative VW boss Heinrich Nordhoff with a first prototype. The Karmann Ghia's design was totally unaccustomed in a German car in the 1950s. Its driving performance, on the other hand, lagged behind its dynamic appearance.

Many drivers underestimate the importance of stowing cargo safely. Many people think they can just throw everything into the car and go. But if they get into an accident, cargo that has been wrongly or insufficiently secured can turn into a potentially fatal hazard.The same applies to transporting pets, like dogs. They too need to be well secured during driving - for their own safety and that of all car occupants. Drive It! shows how best to ensure cargo, passengers and animals all arrive at their destination safely.

This time, Drive it! builds a bridge between yesterday and today. We look at a successful compact from the 1930s, take a trip back in time with a touring coach and check out Jaguar's newest luxury sedan.Present it! Jaguar XF sedanJust in time for Jaguar's 80th anniversary and 8 years after the XF first came on the market, Jaguar presents the second, completely revised generation of this business sedan. Though it has shrunk a bit in length and height, it still offers passengers more head and leg room. The chassis is mostly aluminum. That and other measures have shaved up to 190 kilograms off its weight.At the same time, torsion stiffness has increased by 28 percent, improving handling dynamics. We test the largest of the three available diesel engines, with 3 liters of cubic capacity and 225 kilowatts of power. Examine it! Setra tour busses then and nowDrive it! tours the past in a Setra S6. Kässbohrer introduced the pioneering bus in 1955 at the Geneva Motor Show as the world's first bus with a self-supporting body. With a length of 6700 millimeters, it was the smallest Setra bus ever built. Nevertheless, it still could hold 25 passengers and had panoramic windows.The Setra S 511 HD can be described as the latest descendant of this classic model. At around ten meters long, the compact bus is the smallest in the series. Drive it! looks at what's changed in comfort and safety features over the years. Test it! SEAT IbizaSEAT has given their Ibiza series a makeover. The Spanish compact car is now hitting the roads with a reworked engine and a new look. It's what's on the inside that counts. But tastes differ, so SEAT lets customers tailor the Ibiza's newly-designed interior to suit their style. The carmaker only tweaked the Ibiza's popular exterior a little, but introduced some fashionable details.Decorative strips around the grill, the mirror caps and the rims provide subtle touches of color. A new system called Full Link lets drivers connect their smartphone to their vehicle, so now it's perfectly acceptable to talk to your car!Vintage! Fiat TopolinoAffordable small cars for everyman -- that's an Italian specialty. In the 1930s, Fiat introduced what was then the smallest 4-cylinder car ever to have gone into mass production: the Fiat 500. Known as the Topolino, it owed its name to Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, whom the Italians loved at the time. The Topolino was a robust car that was extremely thrifty on fuel.Apart from the rear-wheel drive that prevailed at the time, its basic design is very similar to that of modern compacts.