Luxury Car

Our fellow reporters' lost looks echoed our own feelings as we stepped into the Mercedes-Benz Transmission LA event at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). While we were covering the latest automotive news deep with the confines of our offices, they had spent the day gunning ...    Read more

It's been an agonizingly slow process, but it appears Alfa Romeo is finally laying the groundwork down for its (eventual) return to the United States. The Fiat subsidiary has registered the brand of its 4C sports car, the first Alfa vehicle to go through such a process Stateside in almost ...    Read more

Acura has announced the pricing of the 2013 ILX, its baby luxury car. And the base 2.0-liter model starts at $25,900, the hybrid at $28,900, and the 2.4-liter caps off the range at $29,200. Here's where it gets interesting. The 2.0-liter (with 150 horsepower) can be had with Premium and Technology ...    Read more

In possibly the only subtle thing Lamborghini has ever done, the company quietly previewed an SUV at the New York Auto Show for a select group of journalists; the rest of the world will get to look at it when it debuts at the Beijing Auto Show next Monday. And ...    Read more

Surging growth and no plans of slowing down mean Jaguar Land Rover may be poised to go public. According to an Automotive News Europe report, the automaker is valued at about $14 billion, a far cry from the $2.5 billion Indian automaker Tata Motors paid for it in 2008. When Tata ...    Read more

Yesterday we posted about leaked images of the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe which will debut this evening at an avant garde art party at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and, in a few weeks, at the Beijing Auto Show. We were spot on in our speculation that the Mercedes ...    Read more

Audi's had a bit of a busy week. First, the German luxury division made it official that it would be purchasing storied superbike maker Ducati. Then, and much closer to home, Audi announced it would be breaking ground on its first North American plant in Mexico. Here are the details: ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz quite humorously calls its G-Class off-road beast "forever young." Because it's been around in essentially the same form since 1979 without much more than a brush-up every now and then, it's become something of a too-strange-to-live-too-cool-to-die phenomenon for the automaker, cheating death most recently in 2005 when Mercedes introduced the ...    Read more

With its new Inscription package, the 2013 Volvo XC60 is getting personal. The Inscription version will be available on all Volvo XC60 engine models, allowing the discerning customer to choose how they wish to personalize their ride for some extra special curb appeal. Among the treatments for the Volvo XC60 Inscription ...    Read more

If ever you thought to yourself Kia was the perpetual second fiddle to fellow Korean automaker Hyundai, now might be time to reconsider that. Kia has begun advertising its new K9 full-size luxury sedan in its South Korean home market, showing off just what it's got. In the spot we have, ...    Read more

It's been a little while coming, but it appears Infiniti is finally set to make a serious run at German competitors Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Thanks to an interview with an anonymous source close to the Japanese automaker, the 2014 model year is shaping up as a busy one for Infiniti. ...    Read more

A federal probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has led to the investigation of 16 crashes, five of which resulted in injuries, in 2002 to 2008 BMW 7 Series sedans for transmission control problems. The NHTSA had begun researching the crashes last August because the cars' electronic transmission controls ...    Read more

Porsche has announced today that it has acquired the Nardo Technical Center from Prototipo SpA. Known as the "Nardo Ring" by those familiar with it, the oval track features 7.8-miles of open road and steep embankments. The track was designed specifically with high embankments so test cars could circle it ...    Read more

Updates for the stalwart 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class are primarily minor, with one major exception. That exception is the addition of the Mercedes G63 AMG to the full-size SUV's lineup. The most powerful G-Class comes equipped with a twin-turbo V-8 which generates 544 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque, or low-end acceleration ...    Read more

While it's still months away from becoming a reality to the general public, Jaguar has been busy developing, testing, and tuning its latest roadster: The all-new F-Type. Jaguar has said that the F-Type will be as vital to the brand as the 911 is to Porsche, and that it expects ...    Read more

The year 2012 marks two decades of Ferrari being on sale to the public and the Italian automaker has decided to honor the milestone with a special edition 458 Italia. On top of the specialized super car, Ferrari will also run its first permanent brand exhibition outside of its Marenello ...    Read more

Thanks to volatile gas prices that have plagued the global market over the past few years, consumers have shied away from bigger vehicles, such as SUVs. BMW is looking to buck the recent trend without waiting for fuel prices to come back down to earth with the introduction of the ...    Read more

Even though it's still three years away from becoming a reality, Land Rover believes the next-generation Defender will be the automaker's best-selling vehicle. Land Rover Global Brand Director John Edwards told Autocar that the automaker has the Toyota Hilux in its figurative cross-hairs and is looking to ...    Read more

Just like that, the first week of April 2012 has come to a grinding halt. This past week was one of the busiest the automotive world has seen in recent months thanks to manufacturers like Infiniti announcing it will be moving operations out of Japan because of the ...    Read more

Toyota has released pricing details on several vehicles for luxury brand Lexus. The popular Lexus RX mid-size crossover saw a small price jump for model year 2013. The 2013 Lexus RX 350 with FWD now costs $40,185 MSRP, a $235 increase from the 2012 model. The 2013 Lexus RX 350 with ...    Read more

The second day of the last major North American auto show until November wasn't nearly as jam-packed as the first, but it still proved to have plenty of cars and trucks that will undoubtedly shake up the market. Most of them were fairly mainstream; one of them—the Terrafugia—notably wasn't. That's ...    Read more

Preview days for the 2012 New York Auto Show have ended on a bittersweet note for the attending journalists and reporters. Professor Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who penned the famed Porsche 911, passed away on Thursday, April 05, 2012. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, or F.A. Porsche, was born on December 11, 1935, and ...    Read more

At the 2012 New York International Auto Show, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn made it known that Infiniti will be moving its production facilities from Japan to an undetermined location. No timetable or destinations have been mentioned yet, but Ghosn acknowledged that a decision would be coming shortly. "You won't have to ...    Read more

Pricing details for the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS sedan have begun making their way to the public. Pricing of the luxury model will start at $44,995, which includes destination and handling fees. The Cadillac XTS comes in four levels: base, Luxury, Premium, and Platinum. Some of the XTS' standard features include ...    Read more

While other automakers from all over the world were turning in record sales figures for the month of March, Europe's biggest automotive nameplates were no different. In astonishing fashion, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz all turned in record-setting sales figures for March and the first quarter of 2012. Audi rode ...    Read more