Luxury Cars

A new generation of the Audi Q5 has just gone on sale and available in standard form and sporty SQ5 trim, the latter with a 3.0-liter turbocharged V-6 good for 354 horsepower. Eventually, a high-performance RS Q5 will be added to the fold. It’s part of Audi Sport’s plan to add more SUVs...

If you're a Porsche fan, you have plenty of options when it comes to choosing the 911 that best suits you. The standard cars are fantastic road machines, while the top-spec RS models will set your local track ablaze. Somewhere towards the upper end of the 911 echelon sits the Turbo and Turbo S. Now...

It's no secret a lot goes into becoming a preferred customer of Ferrari, but the Italian sports car and supercar maker even sets some rules for its own employees. In fact, Ferrari employees are barred from purchasing a brand-new Ferrari. Imagine slaving over an impeccable piece of Italian design...

Electric car startup Faraday Future has made the headlines repeatedly in recent months, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Given the lack of news concerning rival electric car startup Lucid, one might have assumed it’s all smooth sailing at the Silicon Valley-based company. That may not be the...

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s leaked shots of the new Phantom, Rolls-Royce has released its own teaser shot along with a few new details. The teaser shows some of the sculpting that’s gone into the design and provides more depth to the rather unflattering leaked shots. They also hint...

This is likely our best look yet at the new Rolls-Royce Phantom which is scheduled for a reveal on July 27. The images are supposedly screen shots depicting an online brochure for the eighth-generation Phantom, in Extended Wheelbase form. They were first posted to the website CarNewsChina and show...

Jaguar only last month unveiled its XE SV Project 8, a 592-horsepower, left-hand-drive-only super sedan that will be built in a limited run of 300 cars and priced in the six figures. It means that the XE SV Project 8, like the F-Type Project 7 that came before it, will be pretty much unobtanium for...

Struggling electric car startup Faraday Future has hired former BMW executive Ulrich Kranz for the new role of Chief Technology Officer. Kranz, 59, is a BMW veteran and has led the German automaker’s i sub-brand for electric mobility since 2008. He said he was motivated to join Faraday Future...

Revived French performance marque Alpine launched its first car of the modern era at March’s 2017 Geneva auto show. Dubbed the A110, the tiny sports car came with a mid-engine layout and four-cylinder power, making it the ideal rival to Porsche’s 718. It seems Porsche is a brand Alpine...

The BMW 6-Series started out life as a sporty coupe, though with the current generation BMW expanded the range to include a sedan (Gran Coupe). For the 2018 model year, BMW’s dilution of the storied nameplate has reached a new extreme. For 2018, BMW has completely done away with the...

Genesis, like most major players in the luxury segment, has opted for the sensible albeit boring alphanumeric naming practice popularized by the German marques. With automakers offering so many models these days, such a naming practice makes it possible for customers to easily and quickly identify...

The BMW Group is in the midst of an aggressive plan to roll out 40 new or updated models over the next two years across its various brands. Among the new models will be an X2 for the BMW brand. Long the subject of rumors, BMW’s new X2 continues to take shape ahead of its market launch in...

Attention Londoners: Please send pics. When Rolls-Royce opens their exhibition at Bonhams, called "The Great Eight Phantoms," John Lennon's personalized Rolls-Royce Phantom V will be in attendance. The special guest appearance coincides with the 50th anniversary of the release of "Sgt. Pepper's...

The latest version of Mercedes-Benz’s voice activation system, known as Linguatronic, will for the first time allow you to control more than just the infotainment system. In addition to controlling regular infotainment functions such as the navigation or communications, Linguatronic will let...

Volvo in June said it’s spinning off its in-house tuner, Polestar, into a standalone brand for high-performance electrified cars. Polestar will still tune Volvo cars, under the new Polestar Engineered label, but the brand would also offer its own cars. According to Autocar, the first of...

Audi on Tuesday unveiled its all-new, fourth-generation A8. Noticeably missing, however, was the flagship sedan's sporty S8 variant. It turns out Audi will launch the new S8 as well as its more potent S8 Plus variant in early 2018. Prototypes have been spotted but so far reveal few cues. The...

More often than not, the soundtrack to any Porsche 911 is the sound of its engine sitting at the rear of the car. Now, Porsche Design, the official accessories department of the Stuttgart sports car brand, will let enthusiasts take a piece of the 911 with them as their source of tunes outside of...

The original Mutt Cutts van started life as a Ford Econoline. Word has it the particular model was a 1984 Econline, before it donned the shag and was transformed into an all-time great screen machine. Another all-time great is the Audi RS 6 Avant. The latest version comes in Plus trim which offers...

Many an automaker will never directly state it, but there are numerous cases where a vehicle performs at a greater potential than it's billed to. Now, Audi Sport's technical head, Stephan Reil, has gone on the record to absolutely state what we all pretty much knew already: RS-badged cars have long...

Audi has plans to slowly introduce hybrid systems on every single one of its new vehicles in the coming future. No, Audi isn't going to turn all of its cars into Priuses. Rather, many models will get mild-hybrid tech. While the process formally kicks off with the 2019 Audi A8, the first Audi to...