Luxury Cars

Rolls-Royce may build limited numbers of cars with custom carbon fiber bodywork.

The front-wheel drive BMW 1-Series is coming, even though 80 percent of current 1-Series owners think their car is already front-wheel-drive. A new report today puts a timeline on a new sedan version, aka the "New Entry-level Sedan" (NES): it should arrive in 2017. The news comes by way of...

The next generation of Cadillac's luxury SUV will arrive on October 7th, but in the meantime, the team behind the new lux-ute is peppering us with teasers. Today we get five new, but very short, videos. Consider us teased. Despite an average run time of about 15 seconds, each video reveals a new...

Rumors about the newest version of the BMW M3 Sedan and the new M4 Coupe have been circulating for years, and some of them have been pretty wild. Today, we can put many of them to rest: these are the first official technical details of the next generation of BMW's iconic performance car. While many...

In the world of $400,000-plus ultraluxe convertibles, things are rather volatile. Or at least it appears so, as the Bentley Mulsanne Convertible teased in concept sketches last year will not be built, according to the brand's CEO. Speaking with Car and Driver, Bentley boss Wolfgang Schreiber said...

The Porsche 911 adds the next logical member of its family to the fold this fall, when the 911 Turbo Cabriolet and Turbo S Cabriolet lose their hardtops at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. The new Cabriolet models arrive in the year Porsche is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the legendary sports...

The Tesla Model S battery-electric luxury sedan is a remarkable car, and it's elevated the public perception of electric cars to a new level. It's won awards, thrilled thousands of buyers, and demolished a lot of stereotypes. But among the things you may not know about Tesla is this: The Model S...

There’s a new BMW model out testing, and though it looks a bit like the 3-Series Gran Turismo that we’ve seen and are expecting to be revealed soon, it’s actually an entirely different vehicle. That vehicle is the long-rumored BMW 4-Series Gran Coupe, a four-door coupe based on...

Going on sale this fall is an updated version of one of Land Rover’s most important models, the 2014 LR4. Fresh from its debut at the recent Frankfurt Auto Show, the 2014 LR4 has now been priced and offers great value for anyone in the market for a rugged, go-just-about-anywhere SUV with a...

Infiniti's still-new boss Johan de Nysschen is not afraid to speak his mind on a variety of topics. Today, he's talking about Infiniti, and how it needs to "de-Americanize" itself to succeed. De Nysschen has previously mocked American efforts to build an extended-range electric vehicle...

The Acura TSX is soldiering on into what’s expected to be its last year on the market, so--understandably--there have been few changes for the latest model year. Pricing for the range now starts at $31,530, including $895 in destination, which gets you the four-cylinder TSX sedan equipped...

BMW’s latest X5 is a fine vehicle, but if you want yours to stand out from the crowd you’re going to need to personalize it. BMW makes the process easy by offering a range of upgrades direct from the factory. If you’re looking to add a little more sport to your sport activity...

At the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show last week, Jaguar announced a new modular platform constructed entirely of aluminum that will be used to underpin some of the automaker’s future models. The platform, code-named the iQ[Al], was introduced in Jaguar’s C-X17 crossover concept and so far has...

Zooming upward on a ribbon of road, along a cliff wall, between tight hairpin curves and breathtaking views in the mountains of Southern France, I goose the accelerator from about 2,000 rpm and hear a series of sounds that’s entirely foreign, especially in a Volvo: the wail and whine of a...

While it might be the most expensive Jaguar F-Type ever, this deal from Surface Developments also includes a shiny designer home on Melrose. That's Melrose Avenue in Ottawa, Canada, not the Melrose Place in California (or your sweat-soaked college flashbacks). The house itself is stunning, a...

The 2014 Cadillac CTS packages grand design with impressive performance (in the Vsport model), building on the car that almost single-handedly revived the brand's reputation for design and excellence. Now it bears the honor of being the one-millionth Cadillac ever built. Rolled off the line at the...

Jaguar’s C-X17 concept turned out to be one of the stars of the recent Frankfurt Auto Show. It had a dual purpose; one was to gauge interest in a potential Jaguar-badged crossover and the other was to introduce a lightweight modular platform that will debut in a small Jaguar sedan in 2015 and...

A full-sized luxury sedan capable of sub-6.0 second runs to 60 mph and fuel economy of 70 mpg or better may seem a little farfetched but it’s a promise Mercedes-Benz has made for its 2015 S500 Plug-In Hybrid, which made its world debut this week at the Frankfurt Auto Show and is due in...

The 2015 Volvo V60 wagon that goes on sale in January will offer one of the automaker’s new Drive-E four-cylinder engines. Drive-E is the name for Volvo’s next generation of engines, which consist of gasoline and diesel units and include power-boosting technologies such as direct fuel...

Mercedes-Benz’s new S-Class is the first car in history capable of driving itself, though the car’s current autonomous mode is only suited for traffic jams and highway driving. However, Mercedes is committed to being the first to offer a car that works autonomously at all times and...