Luxury Cars
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The BMW Group, which represents brands BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce, is on track for record results this year, with the automaker’s sales for the first 10 months of the year already up 8.8 percent on the same period a year ago. The final number came in at 1,493,153 units, which is already the best 10-month sales figure in BMW’s history. Of these, 1,242,817 units were BMWs, 247,698 were MINIs and the rest were made up of Rolls-Royces and BMW Motorrad motorcycles. Note, this was despite the strong headwind present in many European countries, not to mention the strong competition from...
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Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster Makes Debut
How do you make the Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 even hotter? Just remove the roof. That’s exactly what you have with the new Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster, which has been revealed in full today and is set to go on sale in time for summer of 2013. READ OUR LAMBORGHINI AVENTADOR LP...
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Audi Tests The Waters For RS 4’s U.S. Launch With Cars & Coffee Appearance
The latest generation of the Audi RS 4 went on sale overseas earlier this year, but despite the legions of American fans hopeful to one day see it in showrooms, Audi has chosen not to import it. That may be about to change, as it appears the brand with the four rings has at least one example in the...
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First Video Of The 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
Late last week the 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series made its online the debut. The car is the latest in a lineage that includes some of the most potent vehicles ever to wear the AMG badge, and it may just be the most capable model yet from the Affalterbach tuner. We won’t get to see it...
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2013 Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG Official Teaser Images Released
If you're keen on compact luxury hatchbacks, you've been following our spy shots and news updates on the 2013 Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG. Today, Mercedes-Benz has released the first official teasers for the car and given it a rough release date: next spring. Next spring is, of course, when the Geneva...
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BMW Teases The M6 Gran Coupe: Gallery
During a 40th anniversary celebration at the Nürburgring this week, BMW showed its upcoming M6 Gran Coupe to a select group. Now, it has released teaser images of the car from that event online. The images don't tell the whole story, but they tell most of it. As we've already gleaned in our...
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Aston Martin is doing something nearly unheard of these days: surviving as a car company without the backing of an industry megalith. Admittedly, Aston's niche is rather unique, and its decades of brand recognition and reputation (not to mention a tie-in with a grand cultural institution) don't hurt. Nor do cars like the 2014 Vanquish. But a report from Bloomberg Businessweek today claims Aston's largest shareholder, Investment Dar, is shopping for buyers for the brand. Investment Dar currently owns 64 percent of Aston Martin, and has reportedly sought $800 million for that stake. According...
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2013 Land Rover Range Rover first drive review
Forty years ago, the plan was beautiful: take the first Range Rover to Morocco to show off its dune-stalking, terrain-conquering prowess and bedazzle the world's press. A popular uprising has a way of changing history and itineraries--like so (sweeps arm across desk)--so the launch was scrubbed...
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Eterniti Motors Gets Real, Opens First Showroom
A year since we first heard about the UK’s Eterniti Motors, a new firm hoping to establish itself as a genuine luxury marque while initially targeting buyers in emerging markets such as the Middle East and China, the company has already unveiled its first model and has now surpassed another...
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Porsche Confirms New Compact Sports Car For L.A. Auto Show
The U.S. remains Porsche’s single biggest market, and within the U.S. the state of California has one of the biggest concentrations of its iconic sports cars and SUVs, so it should come as little surprise then that the German automaker typically makes a big deal of the Los Angeles Auto Show...
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TMG Lexus LS 650 Prototype Set For 2012 Essen Motor Show
For the past several years the TMG skunk works based in Cologne, Germany has been working on a number of secret projects for Toyota, including much of the automaker’s recent racing efforts, electric car development and groundwork for the launch of a potential TMG performance brand. One of...
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McLaren F1 Sells For $5.5 Million
When it comes to rare cars, few are harder to come by than the McLaren F1 supercar. The F1 is one the best performance cars on the planet, even two decades after its launch, and finding one up for sale is next to impossible. That’s because only 106 examples were ever created during the...
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If you’re mad enough to think the regular SLS AMG and its 563 horsepower is a little lacking, the people at AMG, official tuner to Mercedes-Benz, has something that will blow you away. They have revealed the new 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series, which not only brings more power to the table but also less weight in order to eliminate any suggestion that their latest effort is anything less than a fully-fledged supercar. Powering the new car is AMG’s venerable 6.2-liter V-8 engine, which in its latest application--and possibly its last--has been tuned to deliver 631...
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Ferrari To Auction First U.S. F12 Berlinetta For Hurricane Sandy Relief
Ferraris are notorious for their long waiting lists, and no doubt the upcoming F12 Berlinetta already has one several years long. If you’re cashed up and keen to get your hands on one, the very first example in the country no less, then here’s your chance. Ferrari will be auctioning off...
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2014 Mercedes-Benz E Class Cabriolet Spy Shots
Mercedes-Benz is working on a facelift for its E Class range that will be introduced for the 2014 model year. Over the past year roughly, we’ve been treated to a number of E Class prototypes, including versions for the wagon, coupe and high-performance AMG variant. Today we have the first spy...
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2014 Audi R8, V10 Spyder, And V10 Plus: First Drive
There are many reasons why the friends of those of us lucky enough to write about cars profess to hate and envy us. Most of them are completely valid. Driving a passel of brand-new 2014 Audi R8s, including the new V10 Plus model, on track in northern Italy and over the Alps is just one of the...
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Jaguar Recalls XF Models For Possible Fuel Leak
Jaguar Land Rover is recalling 4,195 Jaguar XF sedans, built for model years 2010, 2011 and 2012. At issue is a fuel tank outlet flange that is susceptible to cracking under certain conditions, leading to the possibility of a fuel spill. Most of the vehicles affected by this recall were assembled...
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Is Tesla Planning More Model S Variants?
On Monday Tesla [NASDQ:TSLA] came out with its third-quarter financial results, and while the company reported a loss of $110.8 million, this was almost entirely outweighed by the positives it also had to report about. One of those positives was news Tesla is planning more variants of its Model S...
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For those that have never heard of Bitter, it's a small German firm specializing in luxury and sporty cars and has been in the business for just over four decades. Established in 1971 by Erich Bitter, a former race car driver who eventually started a tuning business and then went into car manufacturing, Bitter has sold its models all over the world, including in the U.S., though has never been able to escape its niche status. This is probably because Bitter’s sales only ever numbered in the few hundreds, and most of its models were based on cars from other brands, usually Opel, but with...
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Apple Exec Eddy Cue Joins Ferrari Board
Following a meeting of its board of directors this week in Maranello, Italy, Ferrari has announced that Apple’s chief of Internet software, Eddie Cue, will be joining the Prancing Horse as one its board members. The announcement is a clear sign that Ferrari sees the role of information...
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2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider Mega-Gallery
If you’re looking for a no compromise convertible sports car, then look no further than the 2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider. The car is the convertible version of last year’s MP4-12C coupe, though with its top up you’ll barely be able to tell them apart. And we’re not just...
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Bentley Debuts Gift Collection In Time For Holiday Giving
While a Bentley may not top our collective lists of aspirational automobiles, there is one absolute certainty: no motoring enthusiast, regardless of brand preference, would be disappointed if given a Bentley Continental Supersports coupe as a holiday gift. The stumbling block, for most of us...
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Investors Fear Mercedes Will Trade Profit For Increased Sales
Mercedes-Benz is struggling in the United States market to displace BMW from the top of the luxury auto sales pyramid. Its strategy seems to be based on introducing a dizzying array of new cars, some positioned to attract new and younger buyers into the Mercedes family. This much is clear: its...
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2014 Lexus IS, Nine Speeds The Limit, 16-Model Land Rover Range: Today's Car News
If you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new Lexus IS range, check out our latest spy shots to get the best idea yet of what the Japanese luxury brand is planning. ZF's CEO thinks nine-speed automatic transmissions are the natural limit of the technology. Do you see the need for more...
Nelson Ireson