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Specs-wise, the 2013 Cadillac XTS4 and the newly released 2014 Acura RLX almost are twins. Each sedan is powered by a midsize, 24-valve V-6 mated to a six-speed automatic. The [...]

Haifa century ago, in 1963, Maserati concocted its most enduring model by stuffing a racebred engine under the hood of a four-door luxury sedan. The deliciously decadent Quattroporte, at the [...]

FERRARI MAY GET all the fan mail and sell countless bedroom wall posters, but in the 66 years since its founding, the Italian automaker has sold just 130,000 cars. Total. [...]

ATTIRED IN sport coats, faces twisted into the same, pathetic 'we're players' expressions assumed by all male humans when prowling the Las Vegas Strip, the three of us cut through [...]

MARC GENE doesn't speak 'cool-down.' We've just stormed Italy's wicked Mugello race circuit in the new 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO--the fastest road-legal prancing horse ever built. But when you're the [...]

PLEASE ANSWER the following question as honestly as possible. I require a sport/utility vehicle because: (A)I chase gazelle across the Gobi Desert (well, I do some camping in locales without [...]

A YEAR AGO, MANY WONDERED IF THERE WOULD EVEN BE a car business in 2010 or 2011. Of course, we knew there would be, but few would've guessed how dramatically [...]

FIRST INTO the cage: the BMW M5 (MT, July 2009). Result: Cadillac CTS-V emerges victorious, leaving the aging Munich Mauler pummeled and bloodied. Next arrives the newly supercharged Jaguar XFR [...]

HOW MUCH is half a second and 105 horsepower worth to you? You'll want to ponder that question if you're in the enviable position of having to decide between the [...]

YOUR FRIENDS don't understand. 'You're taking a Dodge Challenger on a road trip for five days from Los Angeles to ... Where are you going?' 'Not sure yet,' you reply. [...]

IT'S RIGHT THERE in the photo: a spacious, tough, thoroughly modern, exceedingly capable sport/utility vehicle. You're forgiven if all you can see is a svelte station wagon. There's magic at [...]

EVEN IN our gilded age of $5 coffee libations and $10,000 plasma TVs, the price shocks like a hornet sting: a Toyota that costs ... nearly $400,000. True, the limited-edition, [...]

BACK IN THE late 1980s, before performance tuner AMG became an official branch of Mercedes-Benz, the Affalterbach-based personal trainer of three-pointed stars took an off-the-showroom 300E sedan, stuffed it full […]

I'M BARELY three turns into my first lap, and already my brain has automatically activated its auxiliary data logger, the one reserved for "extra-special events." Partly, it's a result of […]

THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS the fastest or the most expensive. The sexiest or best designed or engineered. The most radical, iconic, famous, desired, or most outrageous. But they're the coolest. It's […]

JASON STATHAM AND PIERCE BROSNAN, playing their silver-screen action selves, battled the baddies in a BMW 7 Series ("The Transporter;' "Tomorrow Never Dies"). For his sequel, Statham switched to an […]

FIRST you scan the options list: touchscreen navigation, premium leather trim, rear parking sensors, iPod adapter, Bluetooth hands-free phone connectivity, backup camera, Alpine audio system, power-folding mirrors. Next you check […]

FOR ONCE, even 638 horsepower might not be enough. As I slot the ZR1's six-speed shifter into first and tilt my gaze toward the flag girl, for reassurance I give […]

ONCE "The Standard of the World," by the early 1980s GM's Cadillac division had nose-dived to "The Standard Engine on Our New Cimarron Is a Four-Cylinder." Cadillac has since scrambled […]

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, the word "Watergate" was being re-Webstered from meaning "a snazzy apartment building in Washington, D.C." to "a cover-up investigation involving the White House and two reporters who […]

IF THE Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione never stirred a tire, it would draw a crowd. Somebody might even try to frame it. Likewise, if the 8C simply revved its 4.7-liter, […]

THE NEW Audi R8 5.2 FSI quattro may drive like one of the world's most exotic and exquisitely executed sports cars--new V-10 engine, choice of six-speed manual or R-tronic paddle-shift […]

FORGET the DBS. Seriously. Compared with that V-12-powered moviestarmobile, the 2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage--updated with a newly enlarged, more potent V-8--is easily as quick, lighter and nimbler, and arguably […]

THE SO-CALLED "Efficiency Leaves" display on the dash of the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid is a real charmer, one of those brilliant interactive creations that, like the touchscreen of the […]

SUPERCARS are like castles: The best ones come from Europe. Right? For sure, it's long seemed that way. In the spirit of the old adage "Speed costs money, how fast […]

RECESSION? What recession? Not in the cockpit of this $299,000 carbon-fiber bauble. Not in the engine bay stuffed full of 661 horses. Not anywhere near the sumo crouch of the […]

NO MORE GUESSING. No more hype. No more waiting. At long last, Chevrolet has opened the doors to its feverishly awaited 2010 Camaro sport coupe, and we've enjoyed a thorough […]

GIVE ACURA CREDIT: The automaker isn't doing the milquetoast design thing any more. The face of the redesigned, fourth-generation 2009 Acura TL four-door, sporting an inverted wedge of chrome in […]

IF ANY CAR in the Nissan lineup qualifies as a "cult" vehicle, it's the maker's four-door Maxima sedan. Mark Perry, Nissan's director of cross-carline product strategy, says the Maxima ranks […]

NO DOUBT some of you are already heading for the drop box marked "hate mail." Front drive versus rear drive? V-6 versus V-8? Why don't you just compare apples and […]

SOMETHING'S WRONG. Parked outside is a brand-new Dodge Challenger. Next to it, a freshly baked Ford Shelby GT500. Yet nowhere in the CBS television lineup can I find a listing […]

AT AROUND 5000 rpm the world as you've always known it explodes, your innards tumble as if you've just stepped out of an airplane, your eyeballs churn into marmalade. Five […]

TOM CRUISE singing 'I've Gotta Be Me' atop a rainbow-colored parade float. Maybe that would attract more attention in the streets of L.A. than did our Ignition Orange G8 GT [...]

0:7 YOU'LL notice the heartbeat every time you enter the driver's seat of the new 2009 Jaguar XF sedan. Not just your ticker--the car's, too. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION […]

VISITED BY an early morning rain shower and now hosting a lingering mist, the Circuito di Balocco--a sprawling proving grounds among the quiet rice fields midway between Turin and Milan, […]

NEWS FLASH TO automakers in Japan and Germany: The eagle has landed. Again. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you were one of those who wrote off General Motors as a dying dinosaur--after […]

WHAT DOES the "F" in the name of this new four-door, 416-horse velocityraptor from Lexus stand for? Company boss Jim Farley doesn't much care. "Maybe 'Fuji,' our racetrack," he says […]

THOSE SNIFFY investor guidebooks say this is why you want to get rich: to pay college expenses, polish off your mortgage, and enjoy a ripple-free retirement shuffling through Sarasota sand […]

DON'T BE surprised, should you become the owner of a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan, if your kids Scooter and Buffy actually dance in anticipation of their ride to school each […]

WHAT IF you could buy a car capable of running in front of Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, and the rest of the Formula 1 boys on any Grand […]

NOT MUCH about the 2007 Bentley Arnage T aristo-sedan makes sense. Not the fuel efficiency--just 11 mpg in the city. Not the curb weight, which checks in at a titanic […]

BOY, YOU MUSTANG fans are a restless bunch. It's barely a year after the release of the most powerful factory Mustang ever built--the 500-horse 2007 Shelby GT500--and already you're moping […]

EVER SINCE his dot com went public, your neighbor Sedgwick has been totally in your face with his newfound lucre. First, he razed his cabin and built that nine-bedroom Greek […]

THE GREATEST 911 EVER? The evidence weighs heavily in favor of "oh, yeah." As Vincent Vega would say, though, "That's a bold statement." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION […]

UH OH. Those red-and-blue strobes. Lighting up your rearview mirror like the finale in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." They're for you. Time for your best Ned Flanders impersonation. […]

STRAP INTO the sleek Audi A6 4.2, and you'll enjoy the heady thrust of 350 horsepower. Or perhaps the BMW 550i's mighty 360 ponies are more to your liking. You […]

winner: toyota camry EVERY DAY OF EVERY WEEK, on average, Americans buy more than 1200 of them. Since its debut in 1983, over 10 million have been sold worldwide--five million […]

SQUINT ALL you want, but still you can't tell. Far in the distance, approaching fast, it's an alien shape, a silhouette not found on the standard vehicle-I.D. charts. What the […]

BOOMS ECHOING across a dry desert lake bed. Military bases and Space Shuttle assembly plants on a horizon of shimmering heat waves. Unmanned Predator drones and inquisitive helicopters peering down […]

THERE SHOULD be a placard that comes with the new 2007 Bentley Continental GTC: "In the highly unlikely event of occupant hair becoming tousled whilst motoring at triple-digit velocities, please […]