Luxury Cars

The 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque went from all-new model to staff favorite very quickly, and now it's up for a 2012 Best Car To Buy award.

Billed by Porsche as the best 911 yet, the 2012 model, or 991, is much like its predecessors, and yet much different. The differences start with a wheelbase extended by almost four inches, nearly two inches wider front track, and yet about 80 pounds less weight. Despite the wheelbase and track...

The 2012 CLS 63 AMG's strengths overcome its weaknesses to make it a nominee for Motor Authority's 2012 Best Car To Buy award.

We've all taken test drives that leave lasting impressions. When transpiring events are made memorable for the dealer, it ranges from a polite request to exit the premises to an epic fail eternally chronicled here on Motor Authority. Usually, it's far less dramatic, and we consumers are the...

A tuned Ferrari California with more power and more carbon.

There can be few things more subjective than automotive beauty. As the saying goes, one man's meat is another man's poison. That being the case, we think we might just have been poisoned by the contenders for Most Beautiful Car of the Year at the 27th International Automobile Festival. Held in...

The 2012 Audi A7 is a fine mash-up of luxury sedan and hatchback, with style few have managed to match in the segment. Combining practicality with performance and style with luxury, it's a nominee for our 2012 Best Car To Buy award.

Earlier this month two brothers from the UK drove a Jaguar XF luxury sedan across the U.S., starting in New York and ending up in Los Angeles after traveling some 2,884 miles. While this in itself is nothing spectacular, the fact that they averaged a fuel economy of 52.4 mpg over the course of the...

UPDATE: The 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL Class has been revealed. Click here for all the info and photos. We recently gave you a taste of some of the technical highlights of the upcoming 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class, but now we have an in-depth look at the new technologies making their way onto the luxury...

There's every reason to love the newest gullwing, the SLS AMG. But what about it's drop-top Roadster variant? Is it still just as much fun without the doors? In a word, yes. In fact, the SLS AMG Roadster may be even more fun, in a different way; where the gullwing hardtop is built for purposeful...

Fresh off its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the 2012 Mercedes-Benz ML 63 AMG is the company's latest entry into the high-performance SUV fray. AMG's boss Ola Kallenius says it's a segment the company invented with the original ML AMG, and though BMW and Porsche have attacked it with a...

Infiniti’s new seven-seat JX crossover has been revealed, and now you can start customizing your ideal version thanks to the launch of an online configurator on Infiniti’s main website. Only one powertrain is being offered on the 2013 JX so when it comes to models, the only choice is...

For the second year, Motor Authority will award the Best Car To Buy title to our favorite vehicle of the 2012 model year. Being Motor Authority, we choose from the best new luxury and performance cars in the $50,000-and-over bracket. Our sister sites The Car Connection and Green Car Reports will...

In this video clip, Lincoln design chief Max Wolff explains the goings on of Lincoln's design department.

This January’s 2012 Detroit Auto Show will see the unveiling of the convertible version of the new 991 series Porsche 911, which as we previously reported will debut an innovative folding roof design offering a sharper look, improved aerodynamics and increased refinement. The new 911...

Legendary Ferrari designer and coachbuilder Sergio Scaglietti passed away at the age of 91 late yesterday at his home in Modena, Italy. While in the modern era his name was attached to the Pininfarina-designed 612 Scaglietti, named in honor of his valued contribution to Ferrari throughout the...

Lexus will launch a 2.5-liter V-6 version of it's GS luxury sedan, in selected markets, next June.

Cadillac believes that export sales could surpass domestic sales by the end of the decade, but only if the brand continues to grow in the Chinese market.

Ralph Lauren has commissioned model cars of a few favorites from his collection. They aren't inexpensive, but the level of detail in each is exquisite.

The insults are common and predictably gender-biased: the hairdresser's car, the chick car, etc. But the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK, especially the SLK 55 AMG, throws off those epithets with abandon, rising instead to deliver a combination of sport, speed, style, and comfort anyone could love--even...