Best Car To Buy
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Every year, dozens of new cars light up their tires in our hands. Just one does it in our heads, weeks after we've turned the keys back in. That's the car we call Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy, and it's time again to kick off the teasing and waiting before we name our 2013 winner on December 10. The rules are simple: we pick our favorite new vehicle from the best new luxury and performance cars in the $50,000-and-over bracket. We nominate anything and everything that's given us a thrill over the past year, so long as it fits the category and the price, and so long as it's new or...
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2012 Best Car To Buy Winner: 2012 Porsche 911Picking a single winner out of a field of excellent cars is a tough task, particularly this year, with so many new or significantly improved cars in the luxury and performance realm. Value, style, performance, comfort, and practicality all weigh in, but ultimately, the question of which is truly...
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 BMW 6-Series
Top down, cruising through the hills and along the coast of Baja or in the coupe, dashing down Highway 1, the 2012 BMW 6-Series is an experience not quite like any other in the segment: fast, comfortable, stylish, and fun, yet unconcerned with the outer limits of extreme sportiness. In other words...
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Nissan GT-R
The 2012 Nissan GT-R gets some serious upgrades to performance, style, and options, and it's up for a 2012 Best Car To Buy award.
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
The 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque went from all-new model to staff favorite very quickly, and now it's up for a 2012 Best Car To Buy award.
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Porsche 911
Billed by Porsche as the best 911 yet, the 2012 model, or 991, is much like its predecessors, and yet much different. The differences start with a wheelbase extended by almost four inches, nearly two inches wider front track, and yet about 80 pounds less weight. Despite the wheelbase and track...
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The BMW M3 has long held the top spot on the affordable luxury sport coupe hierarchy, and for good reason. The latest M3, though not much like its predecessors, continues that heritage with tremendous performance and sharp handling. But it's no longer as solidly perched; rivals like the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Coupe are rapidly climbing. In fact, the 2012 C 63 very nearly knocks the M3 from its spot, falling short only in a few small areas of performance--and surpassing it in others. Though it doesn't adopt the new twin-turbo 5.5-liter V-8 found in much of AMG's newest vehicles, the...
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG
The 2012 CLS 63 AMG's strengths overcome its weaknesses to make it a nominee for Motor Authority's 2012 Best Car To Buy award.
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302
The 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 is a potent, track-ready car with a bargain price, retro-classic styling, and unique features. It's also a nominee for Motor Authority's 2012 Best Car To Buy award.
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Audi A7
The 2012 Audi A7 is a fine mash-up of luxury sedan and hatchback, with style few have managed to match in the segment. Combining practicality with performance and style with luxury, it's a nominee for our 2012 Best Car To Buy award.
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2012 Best Car To Buy Nominee: 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
There's every reason to love the newest gullwing, the SLS AMG. But what about it's drop-top Roadster variant? Is it still just as much fun without the doors? In a word, yes. In fact, the SLS AMG Roadster may be even more fun, in a different way; where the gullwing hardtop is built for purposeful...
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Motor Authority To Name "Best Car To Buy" 2012
For the second year, Motor Authority will award the Best Car To Buy title to our favorite vehicle of the 2012 model year. Being Motor Authority, we choose from the best new luxury and performance cars in the $50,000-and-over bracket. Our sister sites The Car Connection and Green Car Reports will...
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Buying a new car can be a confusing and downright frightful experience, especially in these days of fluctuating fuel prices and financial uncertainty. Size and power are no longer the big draw cards for consumers, especially in the green car segment where electrics, hybrids and diesels are starting to become prevalent. Now more than ever consumers are turning to respected authorities on the new car market and one of the leaders is High Gear Media, whose network of sites provide some of the most informative and insightful automotive news and reviews on the web. And thus, to help consumers...
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2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe And Wagon: MotorAuthority's Best Car To Buy 2011
The Cadillac CTS-V Coupe and Wagon are the winners of MotorAuthority's Best Car To Buy 2011 award. Why? Because they're two tire-shredding, lust-inducing, finely tuned, and well-crafted variations on a theme that belongs in any luxury and performance enthusiast's garage. Best of all, unlike some...
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MotorAuthority's Best Car To Buy 2011 Nominee: Infiniti M56
The 2011 Infiniti M has already won a slew of awards, from best premium-priced interior (Ward's Auto) to Top Safety Pick (IIHS). So even if it weren't a massively updated, improved, and refined version of Infiniti's already impressive M sedan, the 2011 Infiniti M56 would deserve our attention for...
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MotorAuthority's Best Car To Buy 2011 Nominee: Hyundai Equus
A Korean full-size luxury sedan? That's what most people ask themselves when they first hear of the 2011 Hyundai Equus. Then they start thinking about Hyundai, and its start in the U.S. But anyone familiar with the last several years of Hyundai proucts knows the carmaker has made unprecedented...
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MotorAuthority's Best Car To Buy 2011 Nominee: Cadillac CTS-V Coupe And Wagon
Striking design, unearthly power, surprising refinement, and amazing value are the core features that drive the CTS-V Coupe and Wagon to the top of any list, and that's what's behind their place on our short list of Best Car To Buy nominees for 2011. We were one of the first outlets to get a ride...
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Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2011 Nominee: Ford Mustang Shelby GT500
The 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 might not be your first pick for a seriously capable, high-end performance coupe, but it should be on your short list at the very least. While it's still a Mustang on the inside--a very nice Mustang, but still--it's every inch the equal to much more sophisticated vehicles...
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You want sophistication, but with an edge. Or perhaps you want raw, unbridled action with a softer side. Whichever way you look at it, the Aston Martin V12 Vantage fits the bill. The so-called black sheep of the Aston Martin family, the V12 Vantage shoe-horns the company's biggest engine into its smallest car. The 6.0-liter V-12 mill turns out 510 horsepower and rockets the compact coupe to 60 mph in 4.2 seconds. Those numbers are no longer mind-blowing by modern standards, with the Corvette ZR1, Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911 GT2 tromping all over them. But, as good as each of those cars are...
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Motor Authority's Best Car To Buy 2011 Nominee: Bentley Mulsanne
Bentley. The name alone conjures, alternately, images of elegant serenity and brashly overt consumption. But the 2011 Mulsanne, for all its in-your-face luxury, is every inch the elegant, refined, and elementally Bentley sedan. In fact, it's the most "Bentley" Bentley since 1928. Why is that?...
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Motor Authority To Name 'Best Car To Buy 2011'
The 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show will host a number of world and North American debuts, and among them will be the first annual luxury/performance Best Car to Buy Award from Motor Authority. Our award joins Best Car to Buy awards from our sister sites within High Gear Media, The Car Connection and...
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