‘Audi, BMW, and Mercedes walk onto a dragstrip’ is either the beginning of a good joke or the premises for an epic race. Here’s a plot twist – one of the drivers is a woman. Not that there’s anything out of place with that; it’s just not a popular trend among gearheads to pay a visit to the beauty parlor before a flat-out day at the airfield. Because that’s what they have over in the UK, where this race occurred.
There’s hardly a fiercer rivalry (read ‘mutual hatred’) in the world of automotive, past, present, or future, than the three-way competition between Germany’s top premium brands. Audi, BMW, and Mercedes have been on the brink of a horsepower war for decades just to outdo any other two. Somehow, none of them have laid a decisive blow to the…