Luxury Cars

If you're a Mercedes-Benz fan, you'd be forgiven for thinking that if an AMG product winds up in the drink, something has gone terribly wrong. But the three-pointed star's tuning wing has a history of working with uber-boat manufacturer Cigarette Racing, and over the years the partnership has...

Cadillac’s new ATS-V may be a genuine rival to BMW’s M3/M4 and Mercedes-AMG’s C63, but right now the American luxury brand doesn’t have an answer to more potent offerings from the Germans such as BMW’s GTS-badged cars and Mercedes’ Black Series models. That might...

The next-generation, B9-series Audi A4 sedan is just around the corner and that means new versions of all the separate variants such as the A4 Avant wagon, A4 Allroad soft-roader, sporty S4 and high-performance RS 4. We’ve already seen prototypes for the new A4, A4 Avant and S4, and now we...

Jaguar Land Rover recently formed a new division called the Special Vehicles Operations (SVO), whose job is to develop vehicles that are a little bit more customized and more capable than your run-of-the-mill Jaguar or Land Rover. The first vehicle from SVO was the limited edition F-Type Project 7...

Aston Martin has managed to secure an additional round of funding from key shareholders Investindustrial and Tejara Capital to the tune of £200 million (approximately $307 million) to develop an SUV as well as other luxury-oriented models. This is in addition to previous rounds of funding...

The order books are now open for the 2016 Cadillac CTS-V, which officially goes on sale this summer priced from $84,990, including a $995 destination charge. That’s a lot of coin for a General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] product but recall that you’re getting a luxurious, lightweight sedan...

BMW’s 3-Series is about to undergo its mid-cycle update, with the popular range of sedans and wagons due to receive a few styling tweaks as well as a renewed powertrain lineup. Today we have spy shots of a prototype for the long-wheelbase 3-Series sedan, and although this model is sold...

Bentley’s first-ever SUV, the Bentayga, hasn’t even reached the market but the British ultra-luxury brand is already considering whether to add a second high-riding model to its lineup. The reason is insatiable demand for SUVs all over the globe but particularly in China, where some...

Audi’s Matrix LED headlights allow you to drive with your high beams left permanently on, as they can detect other vehicles on the road and actually split up a light path so that they don’t blind other drivers while at the same time continue to cast their full light in the areas where...

Volvo’s official motorsport arm and burgeoning tuning division Polestar has come up with a new assortment of dealer-fitted upgrades designed to make your standard Volvo quicker and more fun behind the wheel. Best of all, the upgrades are made with certified emissions and fuel consumption and...

Dreaming of a long-weekend road trip with an Audi R8 Spyder, or to arrive at your high-school reunion in a loaded Audi S7? Through a new service called Audi On Demand, it might be possible. You could have a $180k Spyder for $1,295 a day, the S7 for $385, or even a far-more-accessible Allroad for...

Bentley’s most dynamic road car in the company’s history, the Continental GT3-R, happens to weigh more than 4,800 pounds. British journo Chris Harris recently took one to the track to see just how dynamic the big bruiser actually is—and fortunately he was kind enough to film the...

Volvo's uber-luxurious XC90 Excellence debuted at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show last week, but at this point there's no information available regarding pricing for the Swedish marque's forthcoming flagship. MUST SEE: Road Rage Camaro A-Hole Wrecks Himself Into Big Rig: Video That said, we have...

Volvo’s latest XC90 SUV is based on a modular platform called SPA (short for “Scalable Platform Architecture”) that will eventually underpin all of the automaker’s models sized from the S60 up. For everything smaller, Volvo teamed up with its Chinese parent company Geely to...

First things first: yes, this newfangled V car is better than the Germans. For me, anyway. Maybe for you, too. Already half of you are flabbergasting and chuffing, the disbelief—or is it disdain?—like a fine haze of saliva in the air. Well, tough. The 2016 Cadillac ATS-V is that good...

Could luxury brands be overselling themselves? Sales at the German luxury automakers have skyrocketed, with BMW, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz all selling above the 420,000-vehicle level the past two quarters, worldwide. Those three makes altogether were up nine percent just versus year-ago levels. ALSO...

In an effort to curb the emissions on its G-Class, Mercedes-Benz will replace the current 5.5-liter V-8 in the G550 variant (a G500 in other markets) with a smaller yet more powerful 4.0-liter mill. The information was confirmed to Dutch website Autovisie by Wolf-Dieter Kurz, who is in charge of...

A new generation of the A4 is just around the corner and that means new versions of all the separate variants such as the A4 Avant, A4 Allroad, S4 and RS 4. Today we have spy shots of a prototype for the new S4 taken while it underwent high-speed testing at Germany’s Nürburgring. The new...

While the fans have been insisting for years that American luxury brands Cadillac and Lincoln ditch the alphanumeric naming practice favored by the Germans and return to using storied nameplates like Eldorado and Town Car, it seemed all their pleas were falling on deaf ears—especially...

Talk of Audi’s Q6, a coupe-like crossover slotting between the more conventional Q5 and Q7, dates back all the way to 2006, but official info on the vehicle never really emerged until this year when a teaser sketch of a vehicle fitting our previous description of the Q6 was shown at an...