Luxury Cars

In its latest effort to bring together its Buick and Opel brands, General Motors has announced that Opel will start production of a new model for Buick in the second half of the decade. The news follows a recent announcement that Buick and Opel will have a single design boss, as well as comments...

Sports car startup David Brown Automotive has revealed its first product, a deliciously retro, Aston Martin DB5-inspired grand tourer called the Speedback. The car is the brainchild of British businessman and sports car enthusiast David Brown (no relation to the David Brown of Aston Martin fame)...

Volvo is eager to position its vehicles as being more premium than some may currently view them. To do that, the automaker is offering up a 2015 lineup that features more luxurious interiors, and it all starts with the Inscription upgrade package. Soft leather, which is available in a handful of...

There are many, many companies out there who'll restore a classic vehicle for you. But as major automakers seek to offer a more rounded service for customers, many now offer their own in-house restoration services. Among those are Aston Martin Heritage, Ferrari Classiche and Mercedes-Benz Classic...

The Porsche Cayman is generally considered one of the finest sports cars on the face of the planet, usable every day but a riot when you're in the mood. Its only real problem is ubiquity--Porsche will sell tens of thousands of the things over coming years, many of which will be as good as...

Cadillac's last advert for its ELR range-extended electric coupe was... polarizing, to put it mildly. Called "Poolside", its lead character is either loved or hated depending on what kind of American you see yourself as. Actor Neil McDonough portrayed a man who'd probably sell his own mother if it...

Knowing your car's history is important even if you're only spending $5,000, so it's positively vital when your wallet is being emptied to the tune of hundreds of grand or perhaps even a million dollars. At the Techno Classica 2014 classic car event in Germany this week, Bugatti has announced its...

Jaguar’s XK is expected to be discontinued this year, as the aging grand tourer continues to lose sales to its younger and more dynamic F-Type sibling (only 4,000 XKs are said to have been sold last year). A successor is planned, although the new car is likely to evolve into a larger, more...

Jaguar’s current XJR only hit the market last year but an update is already on the way, as evidenced by these spy shots of a prototype version of the luxurious sport sedan. The update will coincide with the introduction of a facelifted XJ range later this year, and appears to include subtle...

Following its world debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show late last year, Porsche’s new 918 Spyder is slowly making its way into buyer hands. Avid Porsche fan Jay Leno hasn’t confirmed if he’s bought one yet (he's already bought a McLaren P1), but he did recently take a closer...

It's fair to say the Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG is already fairly brisk. Aside from a few limited-run Mitsubishi Evolution models, it has the highest specific output of any production four-cylinder engine, all-wheel-drive traction and a lightning-fast dual-clutch transmission. MUST SEE: Size Matters...

Aston Martin may take advantage of a new sports car platform being developed by Mercedes-Benz to spawn future versions of its Vantage and DB9 models. The new platform, dubbed MSA (modular sports car architecture), is being developed by Mercedes for its next-generation SLK and SL sports cars, due in...

Audi has just revealed its third-generation TT, which arrives on these shores early next year, as a 2016 model. However, if you want to get behind the wheel of a new TT today, Audi is sweetening the deal for buyers of the current model with some special offers for the 2015 model year. MUST SEE: LIT...

Anyone who’s a serious fan of autos needs to, at least once in their life, travel to Europe and visit places like Monaco, Germany’s speed-unlimited sections of autobahn, and the Swiss Alps, to not only soak up the atmosphere but tackle some of the best driving roads the world has to...

BMW will present an assortment of performance vehicles at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed this June, including a special anniversary model. Unfortunately, the automaker hasn’t mentioned which anniversary it will be celebrating or the model that will form the basis for the latest special...

We’ve heard a lot about Volvo’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) over the past year, a modular platform that will underpin all of the Swedish automaker’s next-gen models sized from the S60 up, but what few may know is that Volvo is working on a second platform. The second...

Want to drive something fast, loud and rear-wheel drive on ice? Of course you do. Aston Martin knows this too, putting on an ice-driving program at Crested Butte in Colorado, which is just the ticket as we recently discovered. It gives Aston owners the opportunity to experience the latest Aston...

At the end of this year, Bentley will become the center of excellence for all W-12 engines in the Volkswagen Group, meaning not only production of current units but future development too. In 2012, Mercedes-Benz employed a similar strategy by making its in-house tuner AMG the center of excellence...

Prior to the global financial crisis of 2008, BMW was working on a full-size SUV to sit above its X5 and X6 models and compete against the likes of the Cadillac Escalade, Mercedes-Benz GL-Class and Land Rover Range Rover. The crisis caused BMW to rethink the strategy, with the German automaker...

Audi’s A1 hatchback sold overseas has just spawned a 231-horsepower S1, whose market launch later this year will coincide with the arrival of a facelifted A1 range. However, further down the track the A1 range may be expanded to include a proper RS 1 built by Audi’s quattro performance...