Best Car To Buy

  • 2020 BMW Z4 - Best Car To Buy 2020

    The little BMW Z4 roadster that always could vies for our top spot in our annual competition.

  • 2020 Toyota Supra - Best Car To Buy 2020
    Motor Authority Best Car to Buy 2020 nominee: Toyota Supra

    The Toyota Supra is reborn, this time with BMW engineering. Low, wide, and quick, it has the sports car cred to vie for the title of Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2020.

  • 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door - Best Car To Buy 2020
    Motor Authority Best Car to Buy 2020 nominee: Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe

    The 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe offers big power and track capability to go with its luxury and practicality.

  • 2019 Hyundai Veloster N - Best Car To Buy 2020
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee: Hyundai Veloster N

    The Hyundai Veloster N is a fun-to-drive hot hatch and a great entry-level track car.

  • 2019 BMW 8-Series Convertible - Best Car To Buy 2020
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2020 nominee: BMW 8-Series

    The new flagship coupe and convertible from BMW is luxurious and quick—but is it Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2020?

  • Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2020 testing - Best Car To Buy 2020
    One of these cars will be Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2020

    What car will be our Best Car To Buy 2020? Buckle up.

  • 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

    The annual Motor Authority Best Car To Buy award is a knock-down, drag-out affair among each year's new luxury and performance vehicles. It starts with the roster of what's new, redesigned, or significantly updated and then we start to cull the herd. Cars fall by the wayside for a number of reasons. Some simply aren't out in time (they need to hit the market by the end of the year), we can't get more than one editor's butt in the seats of others, and, well, some just can't compete with the best of the best for that year. The most obvious exclusion this year is the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette...

  • Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019 finalists
    Frankencar 2019: The best of our Best Car To Buy nominees

    The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 just clobbered the competition to be named Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019. It's easy to understand why, but that doesn't mean we didn't like the four other finalists. In fact, we'd like to incorporate elements of each to create the perfect Frankencar from parts of...

  • 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019: How we arrived at the winner

    We announced Monday that the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019 is the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. But how did we get there? The ZR1 faced off against a class of strong contenders that included the Audi RS 5, BMW M5, Ford Mustang GT Performance Pack Level 2, and Jaguar I-Pace. With 755 raging horses...

  • 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
    Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2019

    Each year the Motor Authority editors place our butts in a slew of new luxury and performance cars. We drive them on the road and on the track. We treat them like we own them and like we stole them. This year we whittled down a particularly strong class of candidates to five finalists: the Audi RS...

  • 2019 Aston Martin Vantage first drive
    Best Car To Buy 2019: Cars that didn't make the cut

    Each year our editorial team spends countless hours driving hundreds of new cars, trucks, and SUVs. It's harder than one thinks to sort through the good, the bad, and the great, but it's a job we don't take lightly. A lot of vehicles are truly brilliant in terms of performance, luxury, design, or...

  • 2019 Audi RS 5 Sportback first drive
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019 nominee: Audi RS 5

    Audi struck a cord with enthusiasts when it introduced the gorgeous A5 and S5 coupes in 2007, then doubled down with the fire-breathing RS 5 in 2013. The RS 5 sees some big changes for its second generation, but it still delivers thrills worthy of its Audi Sport RS badge. The 2019 RS 5 has more. It...

  • 2019 Jaguar I-Pace First Edition

    Automakers are jumping into the electric pool left and right. To the world's surprise, the first true all-electric luxury challenger to Tesla didn't come from Germany. It came from England. Jaguar beat the Germans by six months, and did it with style. Not only does the I-Pace look good, but it performs well, too. Jaguar's first battery-electric vehicle, the I-Pace, uses a 90-kwh battery to feed twin electric motors (one per axle) to generate a total of 394 horsepower and 512 pound-feet of torque. This setup can rocket the I-Pace 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. The EPA-rated range of 234 miles falls...

  • 2018 Ford Mustang GT Peformance Package Level 2
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019 nominee: Ford Mustang GT Performance Package Level 2

    Ford made the leap from muscle car to sports car with the current-generation Mustang, but the Blue Oval didn't finish the job. We drove the latest Mustang GT, and while it's good, it falls short of spectacular. Even the engineers knew it could be better, so they decided to tinker with it in their...

  • 2018 BMW M5
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019 nominee: BMW M5

    Like its smaller sibling, the M3, the BMW M5 is a legendary nameplate that has been a benchmark sport sedan for decades. Its luster faded in recent generations as BMW focused more on pure performance numbers than feel behind the wheel, but now things seem to be back on track. New for 2018, the...

  • 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 at Virginia International Raceway
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2019 nominee: Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

    It's been called the Blue Devil in the past, but we just call it the King of America now. Chevrolet brought back the Corvette ZR1 for 2019, the third time it's offered the nameplate, and once again the car has destroyed much of the competition. The latest Chevrolet Corvette ZR1's heart is a...

  • 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 at Virginia International Raceway
    One of these cars will be Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2019

    The rush of electric cars is nearly upon us, but that hasn't stopped a flood of great drivers' cars from launching in 2018. In an era when eyes, and headlines, tend to focus more on kilowatt hours and driving range, it's reassuring to see manufacturers still focused on steering feel, manual...

  • Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018 Frankencar
    Frankencar 2018: best of our Best Car To Buy nominees

    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...

  • Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018

    The 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 with worthy competitors, namely the Lexus LC 500, Porsche Panamera, and Kia Stinger GT. We were ever-diligent in picking a winner this year: we drove and we asked questions, took names, compared notes, asked more questions, fought, made up, and drove some more. Our proving ground was the Atlanta...

  • 2018 Honda Civic Type R
    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...

  • 2018 Lexus LC 500
    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...

  • 2018 Kia Stinger GT
    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...

  • 2017 Ford GT
    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...

  • 2018 Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid
    Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2018 nominee: Porsche Panamera

    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...

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