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The renderings you see here may—and we can’t stress the uncertainty of that enough—depict the production version of BMW’s upcoming Gran Coupé, Bavaria’s answer to the Mercedes-Benz CLS. The Gran Coupé concept debuted at the 2010 Beijing auto show, where we learned that it is headed for production at some point. These images depict a [...]
Speedhunters: OK chaps, as three of the sports car fanboys on the Speedhunters team, I thought the three of you should have a discussion about the magic of Le Mans. It's obviously an world renowned race, but let's discuss why it's something...(read more)
Just a handful of days have past since Aston Martin confirmed it’s building the V12 Zagato race car to compete in this June’s 24 Hours of the Nürburgring. The images of the relatively tame red car, though, pale in comparison to these shots of the fully prepped version. The car, which will lap the Nordschleife [...]
The V6 Durango offers the R/T’s sportiness without the harshness penalty. What Is It? It’s the third-generation Dodge Durango, and it marks the nameplate’s return from the sabbatical it took for the 2010 model year. Built on a lengthened version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s unibody platform—instead of the old body-on-frame underpinnings of its forebears—the [...]
Contrary to recent rumors claiming that Mazda is considering building a hybrid RX-9 sports car, which would marry a gasoline-fueled rotary engine to an electric-drive system borrowed from Toyota, we can confirm that the company has no plans for such a vehicle. In fact, the very future of the rotary engine at Mazda is in [...]
Volkswagen is going green with the color blue with its new Think Blue environmental-consciousness initiative, which plays off the brand’s successful “Think Small” Beetle ads from the 1960s and is intended to educate the masses about eco-friendly practices that can be applied in daily life. VW itself is getting in on the blue thinking: The [...]
The lightweight M3 four-door moves closer to production. BMW added the orangalicious, bewinged, and stripped-out GTS to the M3 coupe lineup last summer; the next model in the special-edition pecking order, apparently, is the M3 sedan. Keep Reading: 2012 BMW M3 Evo / GTS Sedan Spy Photos – Future Cars
Mercedes-Benz’s three-row box is headed for a refresh in 2012. The arrival of the second-generation Mercedes-Benz GL-class brute is drawing closer, and today our spies got their best look yet at the next three-row ute at, of all places, the Nürburgring. Keep Reading: 2013 Mercedes-Benz GL-class / GL450 / GL550 Spy Photos – Future Cars
Hyundai has released pricing information on its refreshed 2012 Genesis sedan (read a full rundown of the 2012′s cosmetic changes and powertrain updates here), including the brawny 5.0 R-Spec model. The Hyundai with the five-point-oh produces 429 hp and 376 lb-ft of torque, and is rated at 16 mpg in the city and 25 mpg [...]
Lexus’s second compact front-drive hybrid makes greater promises, but doesn’t necessarily deliver. In the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk of Lexus becoming an exclusively hybrid brand. Whether or not that will actually come true, hybrids are certainly a tremendous part of the brand’s business and image: It continues to crank out [...]
We’ve just caught a mule of Ford’s upcoming Focus ST as it heads into testing at the Nürburgring in Germany. While the body is stock Focus, the Brobdingnagian wheels and the center-mounted exhaust tell us that this is definitely the 247-hp, 260-lb-ft hot hatch. We expect Ford’s answer to the VW GTI to arrive in [...]
Mercedes-Benz has upped the lux factor of its GL-class SUV with a new Grand Edition for those who feel the GL wasn’t private jet-y enough. Starting with a standard GL, Mercedes adds tinted headlight covers, high-gloss black mesh in the grille, LED daytime running lights, and 20-in wheels with a special “Himalayas gray” finish. The [...]
A rapide-r Rapide seems to be on the horizon. Its 470-hp V-12 and gorgeous shape make the Aston Martin Rapide one of the most gratifying sedans on earth, but the $200,000-plus Aston is way slower—and way more expensive—than most of its loosely defined competitive set, which includes the Porsche Panamera Turbo and Mercedes-Benz CLS63 AMG. [...]
The closest mere mortals ever get to true auto-heaven is to book a supercar driving experience at a race track like Silverstone, until then we’ll just need to dream of sitting behind the wheel of a Ferrari, Lotus or Lamborghini… The world’s most expensive new car Read our post on the topless Bugatti Veyron The [...]
Over 40,000 miles, we never grew to love the taste of Evo Lite. Date: May 2011 Months in Fleet: 16 months Current Mileage: 40,026 miles Average Fuel Economy: 20 mpg Average Range: 290 miles Service: $1477 Normal Wear: $0 Repair: $773 When the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Subaru Impreza WRX first appeared in the U.S. [...]
While it might look like Canada’s latest national rally car, the Mini Cooper S “Red Mudder” is actually a factory-commissioned one-off. The minuscule dirt plugger was presented at this week’s Life Ball event, an annual fundraiser for AIDS-fighting projects. This is the 11th time Mini has prepared a special vehicle for the event; past Life [...]
Self-righteousness in a large economy size. Since 1997, more than two million Toyota Prius hybrids have been sold in 70 countries. Loosely translated, the Latin word prius means “ahead of the curve,” not “creep along in the passing lane” as some owners seem to believe. The U.S. is the single largest Prius market with more [...]
McVolkswagen: VW supersizes its Passat for the byways and driveways of America. Let’s get one thing straight: Tennessee is not Germany. If you haven’t previously stopped to consider this remarkable fact, we suggest you take a moment to ponder it. Nashville isn’t Stuttgart, Chattanooga isn’t Wolfsburg, and that eight-foot-long snake encased in Lucite and mounted [...]
The sports sedan that’s both a Porsche and a hybrid. As we exited a gas station in Capetown, South Africa, we left behind four confused and disappointed service attendants. When we had pulled in, one of the guys exclaimed, “Wow, it’s a Porsche!” Immediately, we were surrounded by three of his co-workers, all jockeying to [...]
How the Cinquecento does roofless. The Fiat 500C Cabrio is waterproof. This point was thoroughly confirmed on a recent trip to New York during which we sampled Fiat’s U.S.-market “convertible,” an event that conveniently coincided with an East Coast deluge. Fiat officially calls the car the 500 Cabrio and uses that other c-word to describe [...]
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of its beau ideal 328 sports car, BMW is going full force. As if opening the archives and sending 12 historic examples to the Mille Miglia rally wasn’t enough, the company has created the 328 Hommage, a modern interpretation of the 328. Using the company’s recent Vision ConnectedDrive concept car [...]
“Dammit Johnson! Stop being useful! Now I’m looking at 914s! [expletive redacted]” We received the preceding note in an e-mail from contributor Sam Smith while waiting in the Hell Line at our local DMV office. The impetus for Mr. Smith’s consternation? (Besides the fact that he’d recently become involved in a multi-party vintage Alfa Romeo [...]
Mazda recently unveiled its new family of fuel-efficient SKYACTIV engines, and announced that the first of the powerplants would arrive in 2.0-liter form in the Mazda 3, which has been face lifted for the 2012 model year. The 40-mpg-highway rating that Mazda is forecasting is undoubtedly impressive, but a new 1.3-liter engine just revealed for the [...]
Playmobiles: Fiat battles Mini for sandbox supremacy. It’s on like Donkey Kong. The wide boulevards, endless expressways, and three-car garages of the United States are not what you might call prime territory for tiny city cars. Sure, they’re big business in Europe, the hatchery that birthed these automotive Peeps, with all major carmakers (including Mercedes-Benz and [...]
One of our readers caught the Fiat 500 Abarth out testing on a Michigan freeway, cleverly disguised as a 500 Sport model. We’ve already sampled the Abarth, so the giveaways were easy to spot, namely the dual exhaust outlets and the blacked-out Abarth front fascia with inset fog lamps, distinct badge frame, and air inlets [...]
What once was a car-shaped smudge of a sketch is now real: Aston has released official images of the V12 Zagato concept, the British marque’s latest collaboration with the Italian design house. One dash beautiful and several jiggers of weird—plus a dollop of Nissan GT-R—the model previews a racer that will compete in the wild-’n'-wooly [...]
Come, friend, on our good and fearless quest for meaning at the heart of this infernal chimera. Tell me, oh muses, of the hero who hacked the famous Murano of Nissan. Who was this who beheaded the benign crossover and created this fearsome CrossCabriolet? What god does he serve? Is it the sun god Helios? [...]
We embark on three months of short trips in Nissan’s electric car. Welcome to an exceptional long-term road test, and our first all-electric experience. It’s also an exception to our normal long-term program. Nissan agreed to give us a Leaf for an extended, three-month loan, but we’re not going to cram our normal 40,000-mile regimen [...]
Here to put beauty and Ferrari droptop back in the same sentence, we present the Ferrari Superamerica 45, a one-off roadster based on the 599. Ferrari’s Special Projects division has specially fabricated the roadster for a wealthy client, Peter Kalikow, an American property mogul, and the Superamerica 45 will debut at this year’s Villa d’Este [...]
No surprise here: The next Cayman looks a lot like the current one, and we’re okay with that. We’ve already spotted the 2012 Boxster in the wild—our editor-in-chief, Eddie Alterman, even snagged a few shots himself—but now we have the first spy photos of the next-gen Boxster’s hardtop sibling, the 2013 Cayman. Since the two [...]
Ford disagrees with the philosophy of singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson, who intoned “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” The company’s new “One Ford” policy wisely dictates that Ford harmonize its global product lines and sell the same cars and trucks around the world—instead of engineering similar but ultimately separate vehicles for different markets. [...]
Yesterday, Ford and several health industry partners unveiled a vision of a future in which its SYNC device becomes not just a voice-activated infotainment system, but a “health and wellness” tool for drivers and occupants of a vehicle. The system will not attempt to cure your sniffles with a song; instead, it would serve as [...]
This is a true performance car and the latest iteration of the Porsche 911. It is the obscurely named Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS. Four wheel drive is mated with a 3.8 litre flat six engine developing more than 400 horsepowers. More than enough to either get you to work on time or pound a [...]
Infiniti’s three-row crossover may be covered in garbage bags, but it’s still a Nissan. Infiniti’s EX and FX crossovers are a hoot to drive, but as showroom performers, they’re the Microsoft Zunes of the automotive world. Crossovers like the Lexus RX and Acura MDX trounce the duo’s combined sales by tremendous margins every month in [...]
BMW’s Left Turn Assistant is an autonomous safety feature for drivers who get sweaty palms when trying to turn left at an intersection. (People like this exist, right?) As the feature’s name indicates, Left Turn Assistant activates when it determines a driver is about to turn left at an intersection. The system knows what you’re [...]