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the question we get most here at CNET's car tech team is what car should I buy I'm Brian Cooley with a pretty decent answer here are our top five 2014 model year cars that we've reviewed as of the midpoint this year number 5 is a time the Cadillac ELR and the BMW 428 i they both got the exact same CNET score but these two have little income and otherwise aside from fifth-place and charting new directions for their makers the ELR is Cadillacs sporty upscale Chevy Volt if you will while the 428 is BMWs way of slicing the 3-series just a tad too thin the other difference is the 4 is selling like hotcakes while a two-year supply of VL RS is sitting on dealer lots number 4 the BMW m6 Gran Coupe a sort of gentleman's hotrod both with four doors and performance beyond your abilities inside the advanced M Drive settings nicely counterpoint the connected infotainment system and it plays out on a huge 10 inch wide screen for what is perhaps the best single car at doing what BMW does for a living and isn't it great to walk behind one and not see a really ugly but number three the Infiniti q50 S Hybrid I might say hybridized to be weaponized pretty good tag line huh Infiniti did not drop in the electric motor here solely for efficiency shall we say it's largely there for go fishin see it's also got more cameras than a press conference and an electric steer by wire system that launches a new era in production cars inside gobs of tech you'll use and a fair dose you want number two is Mercedes 2014's class when Mercedes set out to rewrite the s-class they didn't just get out of clean sheet of paper they grew a new forest to make the paper from what emerged is a big fast limo with cutting-edge self steering technology a vast swath of LCD everything in the dash but not a single filament light bulb in the whole thing it's better in every way than the s before it and that's not easy our number one rated 2014 car so far this year is the Audi rs7 it's actually my favorite car we've reviewed in years it helps you get around the track in an awful big hurry but then settles down to become this cosseting daily driver on the street now Howdy's connected cabin tech needs no introduction it's really good and the 7 is perhaps the only four-door they make that people routinely call beautiful nice car hi-tech cars and modern driving that's all we do at CNET on cars.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching