Motor Authority’s Best Car to Buy 2017
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Each year, Motor Authority drives the quickest, fastest, and most luxurious vehicles on the planet to tell you which are the best. This year we had a bumper crop of amazing new machines. The Acura NSX is back, and so is the Audi R8—and we're finally driving the rally-tastic Ford Focus RS. Which one's the best one for your garage and your wallet? The Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2017 is the BMW M2. The M2 is proof that despite its big-selling SUVs, plug-in hybrids, and the i3 electric car, BMW still knows how to build a great driver’s car. A car that sings, a car that begs to be...
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Best Car to Buy News
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Let's make the BMW M2 betterLess than 24 hours ago we told you the BMW M2 was the vehicle you must have in your garage, by awarding it the Motor Authority Best Car to Buy 2017 title. That still holds true, but the reality is, it's not perfect. The BMW M2 could be better. If you want that show but no go Let me be clear...
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Best Car to Buy 2017: Previous winnersWhen we name our Best Car to Buy 2017 on Monday morning, the winner will join an esteemed list of performance cars. It's a big honor, and it's one we take seriously. Our staff has spent hours behind the wheel of each of this year's nominees. Needless to say, this year's challenge may have been our...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2016 Ford Focus RSBy their nature, hot hatches are a little juvenile. They start out as economy cars and add turbocharged power, big wings, wide tires, sport suspensions, and all manner of tack-on parts to toughen the look. The new Ford Focus RS is no exception. It looks like it just dropped out of the latest Fast...
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Acura NSX vs. Audi R8: We compare tech versus higher techSupercars give automakers a chance to show off the fullest extents of their design and engineering capabilities. They use lightweight materials, advanced powertrains, and state-of-the-art suspension technologies to create the fastest, best handling, and most exotic automobiles on the planet. But...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2017 nominee: Jaguar XEWith the release of the XE, Jaguar is trying to elbow its way into one of the most competitive segments in the luxury-car realm for a second time. The X-Type of the early 2000s turned out to be little more than a gilded Ford Mondeo and sales suffered for it. This time Jaguar has its sights set on...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2017 nominee: BMW M2At Motor Authority we like cars that are fun to drive fast, so we stand up and take notice when BMW releases a new M model. M cars have defined engaged driving excitement for ages, but recent examples have become a little too digital for our tastes. That’s not the case with the new BMW M2...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2017 Audi A4If an automaker is going to offer a compact luxury sedan it had better be on top of its game. The segment is filled with fantastic cars like the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and upstarts like the Cadillac ATS and Infiniti Q50. That's some stiff competition, but Audi has been up to the...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2017 Audi R8Sometimes the second album is more important than the first. If a band can't follow up its breakout first album with another platinum effort, it could go down in history as just a flash in the pan. But if the second album can meet or beat the artistry of the first, that band can become a mainstay...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2017 Acura NSXThe 2017 Acura NSX is somewhat controversial. Fans of the original loved the way it challenged the established supercars of the day with a simple mid-mounted V-6 engine and an aluminum architecture. That car could perform on a racetrack and feel like an Accord on the road, while the Ferraris and...
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Best Car To Buy 2017: Cars that didn't make the cutA big part of our job around here is to drive today's new cars and report back to you. That puts us in the seats of hundreds of vehicles each year, many of which represent the latest achievements in luxury and performance. Many are brilliant pieces of comfort and engineering, and some fall shy of...
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One of these cars will be Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2017
Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves. The world's automakers just keep developing new vehicles spanning a wide spectrum of luxury and performance. From ulta-luxury SUVs to high-performance hybrids to driftable hot hatches, automakers are finding new and better ways to coddle customers and create...
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