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With its most recent redesign, the Honda Accord went from blandly competent to truly impressive, earning an Automobile Magazine All-Star award in the process. And when we gathered the latest [...]

It's not hard to think of the Kia Cadenza as a fresh-faced new kid in the office, one with a firm handshake and a bright smile, who tries extra hard [...]

ALTHOUGH it seems as though our little group couldn't be more alone, above the tree line on the windswept peaks at the top of the Colorado Rockies, we follow in [...]

FOUR SEASONS WRAP-UP The promise of the crossover, as much as there is one, is to occupy the middle ground between a passenger car and an SUV. Most, however, hew [...]

Motoring up ice-slicked Vermont Route 108 outside of Stowe, we were not surprised when we saw that a minivan had slid off the road and was getting shoveled out of [...]

The notion of a Honda Civic made nicer and sportier doesn't seem so complicated, really. Our year with the ILX, however, suggests that it is. The Acura Integra was one [...]

Yes, the new Chevy Corvette is the Automobile of the Year. No, this was not a foregone conclusion. The Corvette may have a special place in the American automotive pantheon, [...]

Affordable, lightweight, rear-wheel-drive sports cars don't come along every day--or even every decade. So the arrival of the Subaru BRZ (and its Scion FR-.S twin) was keenly anticipated. Staffers were [...]

TIRED OF TRYING TO SELL German cars to Americans, Volkswagen gave up on that idea with the latest Passat and instead gave us what it thought we'd want: a truly [...]

This is a very wealthy area,' our photographer, a native of Stuttgart, said as we drove the new Mercedes-Benz S-class through the Swabian Alps. 'But you'd never know it.' That's [...]

You see a lot of 3-series BMWs in L.A. That's not surprising, really. Los Angeles is known as a place where your car is not just a place you spend [...]

We admit it: we're fans of the AMC series Mad Men. Big fans. And while the plotlines can be good, and the acting is very good, what's most seductive about [...]

NICE, FRANCE WE'RE IN THE QUATTROPORTE, holding our breath. It's not because the new 2014 Maserati Quattroporte is so beautiful that it takes your breath away--which it is--but instead because [...]

Georg Kacher is a big guy. And lie's been a big part of this magazine from the very beginning. Volume one, number one included a column by Kacher, Foreign Exchange, [...]

The 1920s and '30s were the original glory days for this city by the sea, a playground for well-to-do holidaymakers. Lincoln was a favorite of that same crowd. Both Miami [...]

HE IDEA OE THE Mini Countryman--a larger, taller, all-wheel-drive Mini SUV--caused much hand-wringing among the enthusiast community. It was a move against type for a brand that took delight in [...]

CADILLAC HAS BEEN OBSESSED WITH THE GERMAN LUXURY carmakers at least since the Bob Lutz era (with the first CTS and the last STS), if not before (with the Catera), [...]

In the auto industry, change is the only constant. For evidence, see the barrage of new products for 2013--more than seventy new offerings, which we've gathered here. Rather than simply [...]

AFTER SKIPPING THE 2010 MODEL YEAR, Volvo's wallflower, middle-child sedan, the S60, reemerged for 2011 wearing shapely new sheetmetal and a freshly honed set of dynamic skills. The S60 took [...]

DURING THE DARKEST DAYS of 2009, when Chrysler was skidding toward bankruptcy and many wondered whether the company was worth saving, it used the occasion of the New York auto [...]

THE ORIGINAL ACURA NSX, which debuted in 1990, delivered a seismic shock to the established automotive order. A Ferrari-level supercar from the maker of the humble Civic, the NSX signaled [...]

What becomes of an aging beauty? If that beauty is an automobile-like, say, a sexy coupe--after a few years one can expect an injection of performance to counteract the effects [...]

THE SIXTH GENERATION of the BMW 3-series arrives this February in the United States--in sedan form, at least--and it's safe to say that the biggest question on the mind of [...]

LAGUNA MIGUEL, CALIFORNIA THE LEXUS GS HAS OFTEN STOOD in the shadow of mid-level luxury rivals like the BMW 5-series, the Mercedes-Benz E-class, and the Audi A6- More so than [...]

Sometimes, the Automobile of the Year is a dramatic about face for its manufacturer. Other times, it is a car that breaks new ground technologically. Some years, it is a [...]

iT'S FAIR TO SAY that we were surprised by the Hyundai Sonata, Granted, the previous Sonata was a competent offering, but it was not exactly a standout. With the new [...]

IT HAS BEEN SAID of Harold LeMay that he never met a ear he didn't like. That statement goes partway toward explaining how he amassed such a vast car collection, [...]

WHEN ACURA UNVEILED THE ZDX prototype at the New York auto show in 2009, the company glowingly described it as a type of vehicle never before seen, something completely unique [...]

THE NISSAN CUBE IS THE HELLO KITTY of cars. Its designers, however, prefer to think of it as a bulldog with sunglasses. Whatever its animal-kingdom reference, the Nissan Cube is [...]

OK, LONGTIME readers may feel as if they've seen this movie before. In 2007, Automobile Magazine named the Volkswagen GTI its Automobile of the Year, calling it not only 'the [...]

SCIACCA, ITALY AFTER THE INTRODUCTION last fall of the redesigned Audi A8 and the addition of the new A7 fastback (just hitting dealers this month), the new A6 will complete [...]

The early 1990s are starting to seem like a long time ago. McMansions were barely a twinkle in the Toll brothers' eyes. Apple stock was less than fifteen dollars a [...]

THE OLD MAZDA 3 was already one of our favorite small cars. Twice an Automobile Magazine All-Star, the previous 3 was a cut above its contemporaries. When Mazda's highest-volume car [...]

In any endeavor that's been ongoing for nearly fifty years, there are some highs and some lows. In the case of the Ford Mustang, there definitely have been some low [...]

Given how enthusiastically Ford has mined the Mustang's rich history, it was only a matter of time before we would see the Boss nameplate again. Well, the time has come: [...]

WHEN IT COMES TO $50,000 LUXURY SPORT SEDANS, there is the German triumvirate, and there's even-body else. Of the others, two in particular take a surprisingly similar tack in presenting [...]

The new 9-5 is Saab's miracle baby. Labor and delivery dragged on for years, the parent company almost died, and for a while it looked as if the 9-5 would [...]

THE NISSAN GT-R IS not warm and cuddly. Perhaps that's to be expected of a car that is widely known as Godzilla. The GT-R's fearsome legend grew during the years [...]

HAVING MADE ITS ENTRANCE IN the rarefied environs of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and its worldwide public debut at last fall's Frankfurt auto show, the Bentley Mulsanne is now [...]

When you look at the Infiniti EX35, what do you set? A low-slung, sporty crossover vehicle, or a tall-bodied hatchback sport sedan? During its yearlong stay at 120 East Liberty [...]

HAVEN'T WE SEEN this movie before? Carmakers bring out a flurry of new small entries in response to a sudden rush of demand driven by spiking gas prices. TV talking [...]

BARI, ITALY When the Porsche 911 Targa premiered as a 1967 model, it was a response to a U.S. regulatory environment that the German automaker feared would soon outlaw convertibles [...]

It is a picture-perfect day in I Westport, Connecticut, and we're floating as if on a cloud, down sun-dappled lanes past one impressive white colonial manse after another. From the [...]

NAPA, CALIFORNIA Subaru's gritty, turbocharged, all-wheel-drive WRX has been a favorite ever since it arrived on our shores for 2002 (and we pined for it even before then). The WRX [...]

Paris COMPETING AGAINST SALES GIANTS like the Toyota Canary; the Honda Accord, and die Nissan Altima, die Mazda 6 has long been overshadowed in the mid-size sedan market. Although it's [...]

NEW YORK CITY FOR EVERY SOLIDLY EXECUTED new product Honda has introduced recently--the CR-V, the Fit--there have been dizzy missteps: the Crosstour, the CR-Z. the Civic. Now comes a new [...]

LOS ANGELES IT'S FAIR TO SAY that at the Ford Motor Company, they're obsessed with the Toyota Camry. It was far and away the competitor most often mentioned at the [...]

As automotive fantasies go, what could be better than having your very own racetrack, where you can do as many laps as you want, whenever you want? Where the only [...]

SEVILLE, SPAIN AMG WASTED NOT A MINUTE bringing out a C63 version of the new Mercedes-Benz C-class coupe. Mechanically, the C63 AMG coupe and sedan are identical, and the two-door [...]

VOLVO MIGHT NOT be the first brand that comes to mind when discussing sporty coupes--actually, for most people, it would never come to mind--but in the Swedish carmaker's long parade [...]