Luxury Cars

  • Polestar 1

    Polestar, now its own brand within Volvo Cars Group, unveiled its first production car this past October, the Polestar 1. Although the car possesses a stunning design and impressive performance specs, it won't be a mass-market vehicle, thanks to difficult production processes. The brand plans for just 500 units of production starting in 2019. Automotive News Europe (subscription required) reported Thursday the low production volumes are due to the car's difficult assembly process, which include mixed materials. You'll remember that the car was first designed as a flagship Volvo coupe. Per the...

  • Teaser for Kahn Design Flying Huntsman 110 6x6 Double Cab Pickup Soft-Top
    Kahn Design building a Mercedes-Maybach G650 Landaulet rival

    Depending on where you live, you’ll soon be able to purchase a Land Rover Defender with a V-8 engine, 6x6 drivetrain, and soft-top roof. British coachbuilder Kahn Design is taking its imposing Flying Huntsman 110 6x6 Double Cab Pickup and adding a Landaulet-style soft-top out the back. A...

  • 2018 Jaguar XE
    Jaguar isn't planning a V-8 for XE or XF

    Well, color us a shade of bummed. After long speculation, Jaguar confirmed we won't see a V-8 engine under the hood of the XE or XF anytime soon. Save for the wild XE SV Project 8, of course. Road & Track reported on Wednesday that the decision partially rests on production volumes. Ian Callum...

  • Lamborghini Urus configurator is up and running
    Prep your dream SSUV with the Lamborghini Urus configurator

    The horsepower wars rage on, and they have made the leap from supercars to average sporting coupes and sedans. Recently, this quest for more has found a home with the SUVs of the world. Now we have a new name for such a vehicle. You can call it the SSUV, which stands Super Sport Utility Vehicle...

  • 2019 Volvo XC40 First Drive
    2019 Volvo XC40 first drive review: fountains of hope, and crossover SUV potential

    Shooting through the streets of Barcelona behind the wheel of the 2019 Volvo XC40 is doubly appropriate. Not only because the Spanish city has been dubbed “Gothenberg South” after regular visits by Volvo engineers, but also because the XC40 is the automaker’s version of Juan Ponce...

  • 2019 Cadillac XT4 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2019 Cadillac XT4 spy shots

    Cadillac’s rival to the Audi Q3, BMW X1 and Mercedes-Benz GLA premium compact crossover SUVs has been spotted again. The vehicle is confirmed to be called an XT4 and is due on sale in the second half of 2018, as a 2019 model. The prototype is heavily disguised but the general shape is similar...

  • 2019 Mercedes-AMG C43 facelift spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien

    Engineers from Mercedes-AMG have been spotted testing a prototype for an updated version of the C43 sport sedan. The C43 replaced the C450 for the 2017 model year and is priced from just over $50k. It’s one of the tamer "AMG Sport" models offered by the Affalterbach tuner and like others in the “43” series, it comes with a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 spitting out 362 horsepower. For the updated model, likely due in 2018, as a 2019 model, the spy shots suggest tweaks to lights and bumpers at both ends and a completely new grille with a twin-blade design. There may also be...

  • 2019 Lamborghini Urus
    How Lamborghini evolved from the LM002 to the Urus

    Lamborghini built a record-setting 3,457 cars, mostly by hand, in its Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy, factory last year. The Italian supercar maker intends to sell 3,500 of its new Urus SUVs per year. It doesn’t require a doctorate degree in applied mathematics to figure out where...

  • 2019 Mercedes-AMG A35 hatchback spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    A35 to be first model from AMG’s new entry-level range

    It’s about to get even easier to get behind the wheel of an AMG. The Affalterbach tuner is preparing two tiers of performance for its next-generation compact cars, in the same way that its larger models come in milder “43” and full-bore “63” flavors. With the next-gen...

  • Spyker C8 Aileron LM85
    Spyker celebrates end of C8 Aileron production

    Spyker is still very much in the process of building cars. More specifically, the Dutch performance marque still builds its wild machines that walk a fine line between modern rolling art and shapely sports car. Despite a bit of money troubles over the years, Spyker is preparing a new model to add...

  • 2018 Jaguar F-Type
    2018 Jaguar F-Type first drive review: fulfilling the mission

    If there was ever a reason to save $10,000—that’s the price premium Jaguar charges for a V-6 over a turbo-4 F-Type—this is it. For 2018, Jaguar has stuffed its new 2.0-liter turbo-4 under the F-Type’s long hood to create a new entry-level model, one that perhaps best...

  • Lexus LF-1 Limitless concept teaser
    Lexus LF-1 Limitless crossover concept teased ahead of Detroit debut

    Lexus has something to show us, and it's coming to the Detroit auto show next month. Wearing the LF-1 Limitless name, the concept promises a "striking" new design and the brand believes it will carve a new genre in luxury crossovers. The teaser, published on Tuesday, reveals a sweeping LED...

  • BMW electrification roadmap

    The BMW Group is committed to launching 25 electrified cars by 2025, 12 of which will be battery-powered electrics. The automaker on Tuesday revealed the full schedule for the 25 cars along with a few tentative details. The first two cars out of the 25 have already been revealed. They are the BMW i8 Roadster and Mini Cooper S E ALL4. According to the schedule, an electric Mini will follow in early 2019 and an electric X3, likely badged an iX3, in mid-2020. The much-hyped iNext, which might be badged an i9, will then follow in early 2021. The iNext will be a crossover of some sort and the...

  • Polestar 1
    Report: Polestar’s 4th car to be a convertible

    Volvo in October spun off its Polestar performance arm into a standalone brand for high-performance electric cars, and revealed the first model from the brand: the Polestar 1. But Polestar isn’t taking the slow road to success. The brand wants a 4-car lineup by as early as 2020, a...

  • First 2018 Rolls-Royce Phantom heading to auction
    First 2018 Rolls-Royce Phantom to be auctioned for charity

    As many brands often do with a particular car wearing VIN 001, Rolls-Royce announced on Monday it will auction off the first production Phantom for charity at the 2018 Naples Winter Wine Festival on January 27. The three-day event founded by the Naples Children & Education Foundation will take...

  • 2019 Land Rover Range Rover P400e PHEV
    2019 Land Rover Range Rover PHEV first drive: London, here's your off-roader

    A cynic could argue that the 2019 Land Rover Range Rover P400e PHEV is a compliance special for the well-heeled. But the reality is that adding an electric motor both keeps the world's flagship SUV a viable option for city dwellers in places like London and points toward the future of off-roading...

  • 2019 Lamborghini Urus
    Lamborghini Urus: modern-day Rambo Lambo is finally here

    Lamborghini on Monday unveiled its first SUV since the famous LM002 “Rambo Lambo” of the 1980s. The modern SUV is the long-awaited Urus, a vehicle first hinted at by a concept of the same name unveiled at the 2012 Beijing auto show. The production Urus looks almost as good as the...

  • 2018 Bentley Continental GT First Edition
    2018 Bentley Continental GT First Edition beckons early adopters

    Bentley has launched limited-run First Edition models for the Bentayga SUV and the Mulsanne flagship. Now, the latest Continental GT is on deck. The luxury marque revealed the Continental GT First Edition on Wednesday, and it boasts a handful of unique cues to earn its badge. Like more pedestrian...

  • 2017 Lotus Evora Sport 410 (European spec)

    Lotus is best known for its track-focused vehicles as of recent, but one day, the brand's new Chinese owner wants it to rival Ferrari and Porsche. So said the chief of Geely, An Cong Hui, whose company in May took a majority stake in Lotus, along with a major stake in Lotus parent company Proton. Autocar reported on Thursday that Geely has full plans to revive Lotus as a global sport-luxury brand. Hui told the British publication that part of the reason Geely made the acquisition of Proton was to secure right-hand-drive production capability, but there was also the intention to grab Lotus and...

  • 2018 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
    Land Rover mulls 2-door SUV as flagship

    Land Rover is busy charting its future path, and aside from a possible S-Class rivaling "Road Rover", the brand is also looking at a 2-door SUV as a flagship vehicle. On Friday, Drive reported that Gerry McGovern, Land Rover's design boss, alluded to such a flagship vehicle during the 2017 Los...

  • 2018 Cadillac ATS-V and CTS-V Championship Edition models
    Cadillac celebrates 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship title with special V-Series models

    Cadillac is celebrating its win in the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s premier Prototype class with some special versions of its sporty V-Series models. Called the Championship Editions, the cars are based on the 2018 ATS-V, ATS-V Coupe and CTS-V, and offer a number of sporty...

  • 2019 Aston Martin Vantage, 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show
    2019 Aston Martin Vantage debuts with bold look, raucous V-8

    The current Vantage is the most popular model in Aston Martin’s history, so clearly there was some added pressure to get the design of the successor right. Fortunately Aston Martin appears to have pulled it off as the redesigned Vantage, which made its public debut this week at the 2017 Los...

  • 2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid
    Half of Porsche sales will be electrified cars by 2025

    The Volkswagen brand grabs a lot of the headlines surrounding VW Group's electrification plans, but Porsche will also help lead the way forward. In fact, Porsche is so confident in its electrified future that it believes half of its total sales will encompass plug-in hybrid and battery-electric...

  • 2018 Maserati Levante Nerissimo
    Maserati models get extra stylish Nerissimo package

    Maseratis are already stylish vehicles, but you can now up the wow factor just a tad more with a styling package called Nerissimo. Maserati announced the package on Thursday at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show, presenting it on a 2018 Levante and Quattroporte. It will also be available on the 2018...

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