Best Car to Buy 2018
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Swap the keys of four luxury and performance cars among seven editors for a few days, and opinions get formed. Each guy learns the things he likes about each car and the things he doesn't. We start picking nits and picking favorites. The result of this back and forth was naming the Honda Civic Type R the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018, but we were left with plenty we liked about the other contenders. So, we got to thinking. What if we combined the best elements of our four finalists—the Type R, the Lexus LC, the Porsche Panamera, and the Kia Stinger—into one car? How would...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018: how we arrived at the winnerThe Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018 is the Honda Civic Type R. We said as much Monday. With its combination of exhilarating performance and downright value, you would think it would be a shoo-in for the award. Think again. The competition was fast and fierce this year and covered wide ground...
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Honda Civic Type R: Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2018
Every year at Motor Authority we drive hundreds of vehicles to tell you what's best—swank luxury sedans to hypercars that chew through miles. This year we had a wide-ranging mix including a superb Porsche Panamera, a stunning Lexus LC 500, an upstart Kia Stinger GT that we loved to drive. But...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018 nominee: Lexus LC
The Lexus LC is a concept car come to life. It started life as the LF-LC concept at the 2012 Detroit auto auto show, and the public's response was so overwhelming that Lexus put it into production. We're glad it did because this grand tourer drives as good as it looks. From the arrowhead LEDs that...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018 nominee: Kia Stinger GT
Kia is taking on giants with the Stinger. Priced below a BMW 3-Series and sized like a Lexus GS, the Stinger is aimed squarely at European sport sedans, and it has the European roots to back it up. Penned by former Audi design boss Peter Schreyer and developed by the former head of BMW M...
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Best Car To Buy 2018: cars that didn't make the cut
As a staff we drive hundreds of new cars, trucks, and SUVs every year. We do the hard work of sorting through the best and worst of them so you don't have to. Many of the vehicles we drive are true achievements in performance and luxury. Others not so much. And then there are those that are quite...
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The Porsche Panamera isn't the crazy bit of heresy that the Cayenne was. After all, a sedan/hatchback isn't as far a leap for a sports car maker as an SUV. But like the Cayenne, it's a Porsche, and that means it has to be sporty, even if it doesn't have two doors and an engine located anywhere but up front. Now in its second generation, the Panamera takes a technological leap forward for 2017. DON'T MISS: 2018 Porsche Panamera 4S first drive review: the quiet heretic Technology helps this rather large car handle like a smaller car. The rear-wheel steering and active anti-roll bars, in...
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Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018 nominee: Honda Civic Type R
Honda fans in America have wanted patiently. As other countries got four generations of Civic Type Rs, we looked on longingly. Now it's our turn. The 2017 Honda Civic Type R shoves 306 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque through its front wheels and handles it expertly. A front suspension...
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One of these cars will be Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2018
History may record these as the best days for drivers. It is the era before emissions standards eliminate the internal combustion engine and before the autonomous car. It's an era of horsepower enabled by new engine technologies rising out of the same regulations that intend to make our planet...
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