Luxury Cars

There's automotive luxury and exclusivity, and then there's The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. Dovetailing with Lamborghini's own brand values, the event is a high-dollar, high-class show of the highlights of the best cars, new and old, to be found anywhere on the Monterey peninsula during Car...

Land Rover’s Range Rover Evoque has received a few minor updates to help keep the vehicle’s sales momentum bubbling along. With global sales of more than 170,000 vehicles in just 18 months, the stylish crossover has proven to be hugely successful and the 2014 model is destined to have...

Mercedes-Benz first hinted at the launch of an S-Class with plug-in hybrid capability as far back as 2009 when it unveiled the Vision S500 Plug-In Hybrid concept. Here was a full-size luxury sedan capable of 0-60 mph runs in under 6.0 seconds and gas mileage of 70 mpg or better, but the best part...

If you like the cultured growl of a Jaguar XK or the fierce snarl of the new XFR-S, you'd best enjoy it while you can. Jaguar has said that the pressure of meeting future emissions regulations could rule out a future for its V-8 engines, and the British automaker is already exploring alternatives...

Bugatti has presented the first of six new special edition Veyrons, which celebrate the men that have shaped the marque’s history. The series is called the Les Légendes de Bugatti (Bugatti Legends) and the first one showed up at the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The...

Dutch sports car manufacturer Spyker has lifted the veil off a new convertible version of the stunning B6 Venator concept car that we first saw at the Geneva Motor Show in March. The convertible, aptly named the Spyker B6 Venator Spyder, made its debut today at the Pebble Beach Concours...

A huge percentage of the best of the best of the automotive universe is on the Monterey peninsula this week, and kicking off the festivities is the McCall Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Center. Mixing airplanes with automobiles and plenty of high-end hob-mobbing, the McCall Motorworks...

Here’s a fresh batch of photos of the stunning new BMW Concept M4, taken at its unveiling yesterday at the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Though still a concept, the car provides a clear indication as to how the new M4 sports car, the successor to the M3 Coupe, will look like...

M fans need wonder no more; the BMW Concept M4 has just been revealed at the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance taking place in Monterey, California this week. Though still a concept, the car is an almost perfect representation of BMW’s successor to the M3 Coupe, the new M4 (F32) ...

Last year, Audi reinterpreted the Herman Melville novel Moby Dick to help promote the surefootedness of its quattro all-wheel-drive system in a new ad. The famous white whale of Melville's classic was depicted as an Audi A6, which remained elusive to Ahab, a tow truck driver whose job it was to...

BMW will present the full line of M Performance accessories for its new 4-Series coupe at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show next month. We were given a taste of what to expect back in July but now we have more details on the accessories, which include everything from aesthetic improvements to power...

It was in early 2003 that the current Phantom first hit the scene, the first Rolls-Royce to be launched under the stewardship of BMW and the first standalone model from the British marque for quite some time. The car has since gone on to spawn coupe and convertible versions and was given a mild...

Mercedes-Benz officially has a compact crossover in the hopper; it's bound for Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere, and it's called the GLA-Class. Ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show, where it will make its official world debut in a few weeks, the company has revealed a set of photos of this small...

Cadillac has confirmed that its redesigned Escalade SUV will be revealed to the world on October 7, 2013. The reveal will take place outside of the auto show arena, with Cadillac choosing to present the big luxury SUV at a low-key event in New York. It will eventually go on sale in 2014, as a 2015...

Keep this video on repeat as those growls you hear are the sweet sounds of the new straight-six engine developed for the latest generation of the BMW M3 and the all-new M4 (basically a new M3 Coupe). Also shown in the video is a small sliver of the new M3’s power dome hood, whose yellow hue...

Lexus will soon launch a new coupe to challenge the Audi A5, BMW 4-Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe, and just as those rivals all have high-performance variants so too will the Lexus. The new Lexus coupe will essentially be a two-door IS but a unique name, in this case RC, and differentiated...

It was four years ago at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show that we first saw BMW roll out its Vision EfficientDynamics concept and announce its commitment to launching an advanced sports car with stellar gas mileage based on it. At the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show in one month’s time, BMW will finally...

The new 550-horsepower Jaguar XJR is indeed a stormer of a big sedan. We knew that much, even before heading out for our first drive in one this past week. But what we learned after a few hours behind the wheel is that this super-sedan (in size and performance) retains all of what comprises the...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said in the past that more Model S variants were in the pipeline, which led us to speculate that one would likely be an all-wheel-drive version built using the dual-motor setup previewed in the Model X crossover. Since both cars are spun from the same underlying structure...

Audi’s latest A3 range already consists of a hatch, Sportback wagon and a sedan, and soon a convertible will be added, but further down the track we may see even more variants, one of which is tipped to be a MPV. The A3 MPV was championed by Audi’s recently ousted R&D chief Wolfgang...