The blocky luxury SUV soldiers into its 45th year It’s kind of funny how three vehicles that began as bare-bones military trucks, the Jeep, Land Rover, and Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen today remain in-demand everyday drivers. The Mercedes and Range Rover, of course, compete in luxury segments that belie their bootcamp roots. The latest generation of […]
The mighty 911 Turbo reaches its golden anniversary Celebrating anniversaries seems to be a full-time task for marketing departments of luxury car companies. Heck, some even celebrate the anniversary of movies their cars appeared in. (Looking at you, Aston Martin DBS OMHHS.) We can cut Porsche some slack for marking a milestone not only for […]
A blazingly quick plug-in hybrid If the mention of “plug-in hybrid” conjures images of Toyota Priuses and family SUVs in your mind, Lamborghini’s Urus SE should be like a powerful magnet wiping your mental hard drive clean. In fact, there are magnets in it, because it has an electric motor. It just happens to be […]
It’s McLaren’s third “1” in 30 years. Combining modesty with just a dash of hubris, McLaren calls its new W1 the “The real supercar.” Does that mean other supercars are not real, or are not super? With 1,258 horsepower from a plug-in hybrid powertrain and a total vehicle weight of a claimed 3,300 pounds, we’d […]
Last of Maserati’s “Windy” GTs Like fellow Italian exotic car maker Lamborghini, Maserati hit head winds in the late 1970s as economic issues and rising fuel prices took bites out of the exotic car segment. Speaking of winds, Maserati would issue its final front-engine GT of this period, the Khamsin, using the Egyptian name for […]
Bentley’s (almost) silent four-door supercar Bentley is not the first automaker to refer to a sedan as a “four-door supercar,” as it does with the 2025 Flying Spur plug-in hybrid revealed in September. Whether by marketing departments or auto journalists, the term has been bandied about for years on cars like BMW M and Mercedes-AMG […]
Aston Martin Tops Itself Again The all-new 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish will be the most powerful and fastest front-engine Aston Martin ever built. But put that aside for now, because that it is not the most important fact about this car. The real meat of the story is that it will probably be remembered as […]
Lamborghini’s brave new “daredevil” We’ve been waiting for the replacement for the Lamborghini Huracán, and now it’s here. Meet the Temerario. Lamborghini says the car was named for a fighting bull in Spain in the late 1800s and that it is Italian for “very brave.” The literal translation is “reckless” or “daredevil,” but we understand […]
There are always two main avenues of news from Monterey Car Week: the results from the Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance and, of course, the results from the major collector-car auctions. There were surprises from both this year. The judges at Pebble Beach awarded top honors to a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports, making it […]
