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  • 2018 Jaguar XE SV Project 8 at the Nürburgring - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien

    Jaguar this week was out testing its limited-edition XE SV Project 8 at the Nürburgring. Since the car has already been revealed—it was formally presented during June’s 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed—there are suggestions Jaguar might have been attempting to challenge the outright Nürburgring record for 4-door cars. The current record is the 6:57.5 set by the highly modified Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR earlier this year, though the Subaru is a one-off that isn't street-legal. When it comes to production 4-door cars, the record is the 7:32 set by the Alfa Romeo...

  • Aston Martin Lagonda Taraf
    Aston Martin’s new Lagondas won’t be traditional 3-box sedans

    Aston Martin’s turnaround plan, known as the Second Century plan since it was announced just as the British automaker entered its second century of operation, calls for seven cars in seven years. The plan kicked off with the arrival of the DB11 in 2016 and will soon see a new Vantage...

  • 2019 Audi A7 Reveal
    2019 Audi A7 preview

    The 2019 Audi A7 finally broke cover Thursday in Germany, the second generation for the sleek luxury sedan that set the world on fire with its daring silhouette. The 4-door fastback likely goes on sale in the U.S. sometime late next year, although details about the sedan's availability were few and...

  • 2019 Volkswagen Jetta spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    Next-gen Jetta will have a manual; new Jetta GLI arriving quickly

    The next-generation, 2019 Volkswagen Jetta will launch with a manual transmission and a higher-performance Jetta GLI will quickly follow, Volkswagen leadership told Motor Authority over the weekend. Volkswagen Group of America's President Hinrich J. Woebcken and VWoA's Senior Vice President Product...

  • 2019 Volkswagen Jetta spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2019 Volkswagen Jetta spy shots

    Volkswagen’s Jetta is about to be redesigned, as evidenced by the recent sighting of a prototype. The current Jetta, the nameplate's sixth iteration, has been on sale since 2011. We’re expecting the new 7th-generation model to debut early next year, as a 2019 model. The car will finally...

  • 2018 Mercedes-AMG S65
    2018 Mercedes-Benz S-Class first drive review: driving the most- and least-expensive models

    The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is widely recognized as one of the most luxurious full-size cars on the market, and with that luxury comes an exclusive price. But there is luxury and then there is luxury and there is exclusive and then there is exclusive. We already reviewed the 2018 Mercedes-Benz...

  • 2019 Audi A7 spy shots

    Audi's next-generation A7 has been spotted in prototype form once again. Though the latest prototype is still heavily masked, we know what to expect due to a recently leaked photo of a scale model. The design was also previewed by Audi’s Prologue concept first unveiled at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. Responsible for the look is current Audi design boss Marc Lichte. His aim with the next-gen A7 is to inject greater visual differentiation between the car and the mechanically-similar next-generation A6. The recently redesigned A8 is the first model designed under Lichte’s...

  • 2016 Volkswagen Jetta GLI
    The 2018 Volkswagen Jetta GLI's manual transmission bites the dust

    We hope you weren't planning to #GiveAShift in a shiny new 2018 Volkswagen Jetta GLI. Because you can't. VW has largely carried over its sportiest Jetta into the 2018 model year, albeit with one important change: you can't order it with three pedals. That's right, no manual transmission is offered...

  • 2018 Kia Stinger GT
    2018 Kia Stinger first drive review: an upscale, sporty bargain

    Along its journey from builder of cheap but reliable transportation to budding luxury market player, Hyundai-Kia’s strategy has been “if you can’t beat them, join ‘em.” Or more appropriately, have them join you. When its cars looked like poor imitations of melting...

  • 2008 Lamborghini Estoque Concept
    Report: Lamborghini tossing up between 4-seater and 3rd supercar

    Lamborghini is preparing to unveil its third model line, the Urus, in December, but the automaker is already looking beyond the SUV toward a potential fourth model line. CEO Stefano Domenicali hinted at two possibilities in June. One is a 4-seater aimed at grand touring. The other is a new supercar...

  • 2017 Honda Civic Si First Drive
    Living with the 2017 Honda Civic Si: the good and the bad

    The latest Honda Civic is also the best Honda Civic. That's an easy statement to make, but it's not quite as simple when you add the “Si” designation on the end. Because despite a raft of bad Civics for the current model to overshadow, the reality is that the Si range has been a much...

  • 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia crash test
    2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia scores best safety rating from IIHS

    Alfa Romeo’s Giulia has been shown to be one of the safest options in its class. The small luxury sedan aced the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s latest round of testing, for which it achieved the institute’s highest rating of "Top Safety Pick+." To earn the Top Safety...

  • 2018 MG 6 (Chinese spec)

    In 2011, revived British marque MG started production of a hatchback called the MG 6 in the former Austin factory in Longbridge, United Kingdom. MG’s prospects have improved significantly since then, thanks mostly to the resources of Chinese parent company SAIC. Today, you’ll find MG operating in more markets and with a much-improved lineup. The latest addition is a new MG 6 which is in the form of a handsome mid-size sedan. The new MG 6 takes plenty of inspiration from the MG E-Motion concept car shown during April’s 2017 Shanghai Auto Show. It looks to have taken the best...

  • 2018 Cadillac CT6
    Hands-free highway driving now possible with Cadillac’s Super Cruise debuting on 2018 CT6

    Cadillac’s self-driving system known as Super Cruise makes its debut on the 2018 CT6 on sale this fall. To mark the introduction, Cadillac on Monday kicked off a cross-country trip with 12 CT6 sedans equipped with Super Cruise. The fleet is traveling from New York to California and will cross...

  • 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe spy shots -  Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    Production Mercedes-AMG sedan confirmed for 2018 Geneva motor show

    Mercedes-AMG will reveal a production version of its GT sedan at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show in March, the automaker confirmed Friday. A spokeswoman for Mercedes declined to comment on any specifics of the new vehicle or on when it would be available for sale. Earlier reports suggested...

  • Rumored Lexus LS F published in Japanese magazine
    Will Lexus bring an LS F to the Tokyo motor show?

    Lexus used the 2017 Detroit auto show to debut the totally redesigned 2018 LS sedan, but Tokyo may be the place where the LS earns its performance credentials. Posted to an Instagram by the user Jzsinternational is a photo from a Japanese automotive magazine with a caption that seems to claim a...

  • 2018 Kia Stinger
    V-8-powered Kia Stinger in the works?

    Kia impressed, and likely shocked, many when it unveiled the Stinger, a rear-wheel-drive sport sedan that boasts specs not normally associated with the Korean brand. The shock factor arises from the fact that Kia went with a sport sedan at all when automakers are cashing in on the crossover craze...

  • New ‘Beast’ Cadillac limousine for President Trump spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    Cadillac's new ‘Beast’ presidential limousine for Donald Trump spied testing

    A new president was inaugurated this year, and soon he’ll have a new set of wheels to cruise around in. The prototype you see here isn’t for a new Cadillac flagship but rather the next presidential limousine of the United States. Yes, you’re looking at Donald Trump’s new...

  • 2018 Chrysler 300

    Hold your horses. All 707 of them, apparently. A report from Automotive News on Monday had us salivating that a Chrysler 300 Hellcat could be ready to leap out of the skunkwerks and into showrooms. Not so fast. A Fiat Chrysler Automobiles spokesman told Motor Authority on Tuesday that the automaker has no plans for a supercharged V-8 Hemi Hellcat engine in the Chrysler 300. Not here, not there, not anywhere. From the get-go, a Hellcat-powered Chrysler 300 raised our eyebrows. Chrysler offered an SRT-powered 300 for a few years in the U.S., but dropped the high-po full-sizer in 2013 to keep...

  • Bugatti Veyron and Galibier 16C concept
    Bugatti might replace Chiron with a sedan

    Bugatti’s Chiron has only just arrived but a decision on a successor will have to be made soon as development will have to start in 2019. Why the rush? Because the rate at which Bugatti is building the Chiron, approximately 70 cars per year, means all 500 planned examples will have been...

  • 2018 Chrysler 300
    A Chrysler 300 Hellcat might be coming in 2018, refresh for 2019

    Hellcats are stalking the hallways at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles nowadays, apparently. While we thought it would strike next in a Ram in the form of a production TRX Concept, it seems the supercharged behemoth will make its way into a Chrysler 300 next. Wait, what? Automotive News (subscription...

  • 2018 BMW M5
    BMW's newest M5 to receive Competition Package

    Roundel fans have a lot to be happy about these days. Especially those that pine for a bit of the old BMW magic that used to float around when the automaker was churning out top-notch sport sedan and coupes. You'll have folks arguing both sides of the fence as to whether BMW is doing enough of that...

  • Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR Nurburgring record run
    Subaru provides video of its WRX STI Type RA NBR’s sub-7:00 ‘Ring run

    In July, a highly modified Subaru WRX STI, driven by Kiwi racer Richie Stanaway, managed to lap the Nürburgring in a time of 6:57.5. That’s the fastest that any car with four doors has lapped the notorious German racetrack, a true testament of the engineering skills of Subaru and its...

  • Mercedes-AMG GT concept, 2017 Geneva auto show
    Mercedes-AMG sedan may bow early next year, won't be called GT 4

    Mercedes-AMG is giving enthusiasts a reason to make the pilgrimage to the 2018 North American International Auto Show. Tobias Moers, head of the Affalterbach-based performance division, told Motoring the production version of its GT 4 sport sedan will be revealed at the show this coming January in...

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