Luxury Cars

The Alfa Romeo 4C Concept is brilliant--that's already been settled. Now, it's not just a concept, either; it will start production in 2013 according to Alfa CEO Harald Wester speaking at the Frankfurt Auto Show. We've expected the 4C to lead Alfa's return to the U.S. for a long time now, but as...

The partnership between Renault-Nissan and Daimler will bear its first major fruit in 2014. Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan, has announced Infiniti will base an upcoming luxury compact on a Mercedes-Benz platform. Nissan and Daimler made their partnership official last April, stating at the...

Maybach wants customers to know that the range of available personalization is limited only by imagination and budget, so they've created the one-off Edition 125! to highlight this.

With the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz B-Class freshly unveiled in Frankfurt, there's a lot of talk within the company about premium compacts. Unfortuately, there's been no solid word on the matter as yet for America--but we might not have too long to wait. Mercedes announced at an event this evening in...

UPDATE: The 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL Class has been revealed. Click here for all the info and photos. A few months ago, Mercedes-Benz quietly dropped the V-12 variants from its SL-Class lineup, and the popular interpretation was that it was preparing for the debut of the upcoming 2013 SL-Class...

The 2012 Porsche 911 is one of the most important new cars on the show stands at Frankfurt 2011, and it's clear from the space devoted to it at the massive VW pavilion, the company is devoted to playing up the new "991" sportscar. There's much new technology in the new 911, not the least of which...

As we first reported a few weeks back, Wiesmann, the maker of the retro-styled MF series of roadsters and coupes, is ending production of its Roadster MF3, a car that has been around for the last 18 years. In honor of the milestone, Wiesmann has teamed up with fellow German firm Sieger, a...

The new Ferrari 458 Spider has flipped its lid in Frankfurt and we have a fresh batch of live photos of the stunning supercar. As you’ll recall from our previous post, this convertible version of the 458 Italia gets an automated folding roof made from aluminum, which only takes 14 seconds to...

New luxury upstart Eterniti’s first model, the Hemera super-SUV, may look like a tarted up version of its donor vehicle, a Porsche Cayenne, but that won’t be the case for the brand’s future models. Along with the debut of the Hemera Concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show this...

Lotus has already confirmed that it will build a road-going version of its Evora GTE race car based on the striking concept version we saw at the recent 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and now, at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, the automaker has unveiled the production version...

The Audi Urban Concept is one of those cars we love and hate at the same time. Why? Because it's achingly cool in a futuristic, these-are-the-cars-we-were-promised-as-kids kind of way, but at the same time, still completely out of reach for the real world. The Spyder just adds to the discord with...

Revealed in detail yesterday ahead of its official unveiling in Frankfurt today, the 2013 Lexus GS 450h shows its hybrid mettle in a metallic silver paint job. Will it have the right stuff to take on the Infiniti M35h? It certainly looks the part. The 3.5-liter V-6's high compression ratio and...

If your wallet is too small for all your crisp new $100 bills and your seventh home in Monaco is starting to feel a bit claustrophobic, perhaps you need to upgrade your Bentley Mulsanne to the new Executive Interior Concept unveiled today in Frankfurt and go for a drive. That's right: if your...

We've gone from teasers to previews to mega-galleries, and we're still not tired of showing you the stunning Jaguar C-X16 concept, on the floor this week at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show and hopefully, on a winding, kinky piece of tarmac within the next 18 months. The C-X16 makes chief designer Ian...

When we took the wheel of the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Coupe on the Circuito Monteblanco in Spain earlier this year, we knew AMG had something special on its hands. Far more focused and capable on track, it is a true competitor to the BMW M3. The Black Series takes the car to yet another level of...

Shooting brake, n.: (1) A sports car, generally a two-door coupe, with an elongated roof and hatchback-like rear cargo area; (2) completely awesome. The 2013 Fisker Surf, though it's a five-door and perhaps more accurately categorized as a sports hatchback or as a member of the funky new breed of...

Infiniti's mainstream sister brand, Nissan, has been selling the LEAF electric vehicle just about as quickly as it can build it, but so far, there's been no luxury version for the premium marque. That's going to change in 2014 according to a speech given by Shiro Nakamura, Infiniti's chief creative...

Love it or hate it, the SUV has taken the luxury market by storm since its introduction, and only a few brands still don't have at least one offering in the segment. That number is one smaller today, however, as Maserati introduced the Kubang at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. The first thing you're...

Six liters of W-12 goodness. Five-hundred sixty-seven horsepower. A convertible top. Classic style through a modern lens. The 2012 Bentley Continental GTC. When the 2012 Continental GTC first showed its face to the web in August, it revealed the characteristically fine craftwork and attention to...

While the rest of the auto world dives deeply hybrids and electric cars at this year's Frankfurt Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz is still convinced the hydrogen fuel cell is the powertrain of the future--absolutely by the year 2050, and likely much sooner than that if new hydrogen-storage technology can...