As original as it gets There cannot be too many car enthusiasts who have not seen a 1962-1967 Cobra on the road or at car shows. That is a remarkable occurrence considering just under 1,000 were ever built by Shelby American in cooperation with AC Cars in England and Ford, which supplied the V8 engines. […]
For stick-shift 911 fans, it’s the automatic choice. Perusing the 2025 Porsche 911 model line is a bit like trying to choose toothpaste from the bewildering selection in the supermarket aisle. There are so many kinds, each promising one advantage or another. You can wrack your brain trying to decide which is just right for […]
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 […]
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 […]
While Bugatti recently became a joint venture run by EV hypercar maker Rimac, fans of the marque will likely celebrate that the latest model, called Tourbillon, uses a 986-horsepower V-16 internal combustion engine. It also uses three electric motors that contribute nearly 800 more horses to the corral. So, yes, this one has EV genius Mate Rimac’s imprint all over it. The Tourbillon promises 0-60 in two seconds and a 277-mph top speed. Starting in 2026, Bugatti will build just 250 of these hyper hybrids, with a starting price north of $4 million.
Just 16 people in the world will be able to buy a Bentley Batur convertible, the latest in a series of ultra-limited coachbuilt cars from the British automaker. The two-seat convertible follows last year’s Batur coupe, of which 18 were made. The coupe was not offered in the U.S., but the convertible reportedly will be. Both are based on the Bentley Continental GT, a model that starts at about $250,000. The Baturs are in a whole other league – indeed, a whole other ball game – with pricing believed to be a bit over $2 million before personalization options.
While hurricane season is just starting, Lamborghini Huracán season is ending after 10 years. Lamborghini is sending the car out with a special track model, building just 10 examples. The Huracán’s plug-in hybrid replacement is likely to be much more powerful than the outgoing model. That’s just the start of the “electrifying” news sweeping through the upper part of the premium car segment. It looks like gas engines will stick around for a while, but there will be more plug-in hybrids coming, and, yes, even an all-electric Ferrari.
