Luxury Cars
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Watch Mercedes chief exterior designer Robert Lesnik explain all of the details of the new S-Class' design.
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2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith first drive reviewIf you're truly rich--or its more discreet cousin, wealthy--you'll barely notice the pricetag on the Rolls-Royce Wraith. BCC your CFO here: It's $289,000, and that's before you've even dabbled in the fittings and finishes that can shave another hundred grand from your offshore accounts. Before...
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2014 Mercedes-Benz S Class: Best Car To Buy 2014 NomineeIf you could only sit in one place, for the rest of your life, you could do a lot worse than to pick a seat from the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S Class. As we noted in our first drive of the new S63 AMG, they’re better described as thrones. But that’s just one example of how good the new S...
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2014 Cadillac CTS: Best Car To Buy 2014 NomineeThe Cadillac CTS has been responsible, over the course of three generations, for not only re-establishing Cadillac’s reputation as a legitimate global luxury brand, but building that image, and, in its third go-round, moving the company into truly world-class territory. That's why it's a...
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Unbelievable Survival Story Of The Week: Audi S5 Flattened By Shipping ContainerRemarkably, two people survived the flattening of this Audi without life-threatening injuries.
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Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class Design In Detail: VideoThe Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class is easily one of the most attractive cars in the compact class, particularly in its CLA45 AMG trim, but getting the car to look as good as it does was no easy feat. The video above features the designer in charge of the CLA’s exterior, Mark Fetherston, and he...
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One of the meanest looking cars currently in production is Jaguar’s 2014 XKR-S GT. Built by the automaker’s special projects division, ETO, the XKR-S GT is essentially a race car that has been made street legal. Unfortunately, there’s no additional power on this model, which means the supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 found under the hood delivers the same 550 horsepower and 502 pound-feet of torque as the lesser XKR-S. But that doesn’t really matter, as British journo Chris Harris recently found out when sampling the car for the latest episode of Drive. Bad weather meant he...
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2014 Porsche Panamera Turbo S PreviewThe range-topping Panamera Turbo S has joined the rest of the facelifted 2014 Porsche Panamera lineup.
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Audi fleet shuttle quattro Sci-Fi Concept Debuts In 'Ender's Game'The Audi fleet shuttle quattro concept marks the German car maker's latest appearance on the big screen.
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Rolls-Royce Bespoke Builds 'Chicane' Phantom CoupeRolls-Royce’s own personalization department, Rolls-Royce Bespoke, has put together a very special Phantom Coupe for the automaker’s brand manager in Dubai, Mohammed EL-Arishy. Called the Chicane Phantom Coupe, only one example exists and it's been developed with special touches...
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Volvo C70 Successor PlannedVolvo’s aging C70 convertible finally bows out of the market once the 2013 model year has run its course, but a successor is planned, according to some senior sources at the Swedish automaker. And just as the original was offered both as a coupe and a convertible, the same could be true for...
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Aston Martin Deal With AMG Likely To Lead To Platform SharingHe’s already hinted that a future Aston Martin SUV may ride on a Mercedes-Benz platform, and now the historic British automaker’s CEO, Dr. Ulrich Bez, has revealed that the recent deal between Aston Martin and Mercedes performance arm AMG may lead to platform sharing. In July, Aston...
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The all-new 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class has been revealed in full thanks to these leaked photos. They show the car’s front styling for the first time, revealing a look that’s clearly been inspired by the elegant lines of the larger S-Class and one that should prove popular with buyers of small luxury sedans. We also get a look at two different versions of the car: a regular C-Class and one possibly fitted with the car’s available AMG sports pack. Note, AMG also plans its own version of the 2015 C-Class, which should be released shortly after the launch of the regular sedan...
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Kia K900 Coming To Los Angeles Auto Show, U.S. Sales In 2014The Hyundai side of South Korea's largest automaker has had a notable measure of success with its large, luxurious Genesis sedan, and soon, the Kia portion of the empire will offer its own: the K900, set to debut at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show next month. In Kia's home market, the large luxury...
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Andy Warhol Mercedes-Benz Silkscreen Expected To Fetch $16 Million At AuctionEven car art can fetch millions, although this work of art is still worth less than the car it depicts.
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2015 Audi A3 Priced From $30,795Audi’s all-new 2015 A3 sedan will be priced from $30,795, including shipping, when it hits showrooms around March of next year. The car will serve as the entry point for the Audi brand in the U.S., which means the A3 Sportback variant also due next year will have a higher pricetag. Audi fans...
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BMW Individual Builds The Most Expensive 7-Series Ever: VideoIn a world of mass production, even for high-end vehicles like the BMW 7-Series, it’s nice to see the discerning individual can still have some things fashioned the good old way, as in tradition-led handcraftsmanship. That’s a principle BMW is keen to live up to with its BMW Individual...
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Infiniti Thinking About Shapely Four-Door On Mercedes-Benz Platform?Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz have come together. The two automakers broke ground last year on a new shared engine plant located in Tennessee, plus they plan to share a platform for their respective compacts and may even produce the cars at the same plant. Now comes word that Infiniti might be looking...
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Remember those books you had as a kid where each break in the story allowed you to pick how it continued? You'd pick one, flip to the required page, read it and then decided it was boring and you wanted to choose the other path anyway. We wonder if Infiniti's new Deja-View responsive film is similar. The premise is the same--you watch a film, and get to pick how the story develops. From there though, it goes a lot more high-tech: the film actually responds to your spoken interactions with the characters, adapting to each viewer as the story progresses. Developed in partnership with Campfire...
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Audi-Badged Volkswagen Up Rumors ResurfaceDuring the early days of development for Volkswagen’s Up minicar, it was widely thought Audi would get its own version of the car to serve as the gateway for a new range of ecological models similar to those offered by BMW’s i sub-brand. The rumor mill went into overdrive when Audi...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Tech DetailsRecently we were given our first official look at the next-generation C-Class, which hits showrooms next year following a debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January. Now, Mercedes-Benz is detailing some of the new technologies that will feature on the car. The new C-Class, which launches as a 2015...
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Buick Mulls Diesel For Certain ModelsDiesel has struggled for acceptance in the U.S. in the past, too many customers haunted by horrific dabblings with diesel in the 1970s, or the image of lifted trucks "rolling coals" tarnishing its reputation. Anyone familiar with modern diesels will dismiss both and even overlook the occasionally...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Teased In New Video - Updated With Interior PhotosA new generation of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the W205, is expected to debut early next year, with many suggesting it will be unveiled at January’s 2014 Detroit Auto Show, but a new teaser video from Mercedes is already giving us a taste of what’s to come. Along with the video, the...
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Mercedes-Benz Shows Interior Of New V-ClassMercedes-Benz is working on a replacement for its Viano line of vans and today the first images of the vehicle have surfaced, albeit they only show the interior. The Viano isn’t sold in the U.S. but there’s speculation this new model, which will revive Mercedes’ V-Class moniker...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran