Luxury Cars

It’s not looking good for BMW X5 Diesel owners. Just a couple of months after the 2012 model was recalled due to a steering fault, a new recall has been issued on the 2009 BMW X5 xDrive35d by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) due to a potential fault with the heating...

Eager to dust off claims that it has bitten off more than it can chew, Lotus is on the verge of launching an onslaught of new sports car models over the coming years, the first of which we'll see as early as the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show in less than two weeks’ time. The storied automaker from...

Lincoln is in the process of recreating itself, with the aim to turn its current reputation for simply selling tarted up Fords to one of grand American luxury. Part of its offensive will see the introduction of seven new or upgraded models between now and 2014, the first of which is expected to be...

Audi is presenting three new S models at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show next month, two of which, the new S8 and S7 Sportback, we’ve already seen. The third S model is the new 2013 Audi S6, which will be making its debut in both sedan and Avant wagon bodystyles but is only destined for sale in...

The Audi A7 has only been in showrooms for a short while, but the model we’ve been waiting for is still almost a year out from its sales debut. We are, of course, referring to the new Audi S7, which is set to go on sale in Europe in the spring of 2012 and should arrive in U.S. showrooms...

The Audi R8 GT Spyder has been with us for a while but we still can’t get enough of it, and we hope you can’t either us as we’ve just dug up an official video walkaround of the sultry convertible. In case you missed our previous post, the R8 GT Spyder is a hardcore version of the...

Porsche enters new territory with the introduction of the world's first seven-speed manual transmission. Fortunately, the gear pattern is exactly what you'd expect it to be.

The Alfa Romeo 4C stunned us at its original debut back at March’s 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and now it’s set to do it all over again at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show in just two weeks’ time. [MotorAuthority] We drive the 2012 Ford Focus Titanium in New York. [GreenCarReports]...

BMW is the latest to announce that it is working on self-driving or ‘autonomous’ cars, revealing today a new prototype based on the 5-Series and packed with the automaker’s new “Highly Automated Driving” technology. Eventually, BMW hopes that its cars will be able to...

McLaren chose the recent 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance to announce plans for a new vehicle personalization program dubbed McLaren Special Operations. Designed for the new MP4-12C, and two other supercars in the pipeline, McLaren Special Operations caters to owners looking to add...

Porsche is going to great length to break as much new ground as possible with its latest 2012 911, or 991 to the diehards. The automaker has already confirmed that a new seven-speed manual, a world first for a production car, will feature, but now it looks like the convertible version will get an...

Not exactly known for eco-friendly offerings, ultra-premium brand Bentley will soon be offering plug-in hybrids and diesels.

We know Mercedes-Benz is likely to launch four new models based around its latest generation small car platform, otherwise known as MFA (Mercedes Frontwheel Architecture). The first of these new models has already been revealed in the form of the 2012 Mercedes-Benz B-Class, and will be followed...

The 2012 Porsche 911 is scheduled for its world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show on September 13, but the car has already made its online debut--both in Carerra and Carerra S trim. We now have a new video of the latest 911, giving us an intimate look at how the 991 series will look. The car...

This is Acura’s 25th year in the business and in celebration of the milestone the upmarket Honda division has been releasing a number of updates on its 2012 models. The latest to receive the updates is the 2012 Acura TSX, which spawns a new “Special Edition” model featuring a...

BMW used this past weekend’s Indianapolis MotoGP to unveil its new F10 M5 safety car, and to celebrate the occasion invited 50 lucky M fans for hot laps in the new sports sedan. Though the car is based on the latest 2012 BMW M5, it gets a few subtle details for its MotoGP safety car duties...

The boss of Bugatti, Wolfgang Durheimer, recently revealed the 1,200 horsepower W-16 engine of the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport was not compatible with the body of the Veyron Grand Sport, though a more powerful version of the open-top supercar had not been ruled out. Today we have new spy shots of a...

Remember this poor Jaguar XJ220 found abandoned in the Qatari desert? Now we have an image of something even sadder: a Ferrari Enzo left to rot in Dubai. The supercar is just another victim among possibly thousands of luxurious and rare cars abandoned in the Middle East, mostly by expatriates...

Cadillac is eager to talk about its 2011 Ciel concept, which debuted at Pebble Beach last week.

The BMW X1 compact luxury crossover has been on sale in Europe and other parts of the globe for some time now, including in Canada, but the car is still nowhere to be seen in the automaker’s single biggest market, the U.S. The X1 was originally meant to be launched earlier this year as a 2011...