-Ford’s announcement that the 2017 Focus Electric will sport an EPA-rated driving range of 100 miles couldn’t have come at a less opportune time: Here we are driving and testing a ’16 model with a range of 76 miles when, in only a few months, it will be obsolete. Old… Continue reading
-Back in 2004, the Toyota Prius earned a spot on our 10Best Cars list. It didn’t offer any of the dynamic virtues that normally get us excited, but the second-generation Prius entertained us in a different way with its video-game-like efficiency displays. We surprised ourselves by finding enjoyment in feathering… Continue reading
-About three-fifths of your body mass is water, the key to life. Scientists scour the reaches of the universe for its liquid form hoping that where they find water there may be other life. BMW has found some life in water, too, squirting the stuff into the intake plenum of… Continue reading
Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced the next iteration of the company’s innovative UVO infotainment and telematics system, known as UVO Luxury Services. Exclusive to the 2016 K900, UVO Luxury Services includes premium features and functions, such as local search by Google?, remote vehicle command and control and a dealership… Continue reading
– Lexus gives itself credit for inventing this vehicle class—a luxury sport-utility based on a front-drive-sedan platform—and by association contributing to one of the most malleable of all vehicle classifications: the crossover. That was in 1998. Since then, in the rare moments when Lexus wasn’t celebrating annual sales—the RX crossover… Continue reading
Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) today showed the much-anticipated production model of the all-new 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) at the 2016 New York International Auto Show. The Outlander PHEV is a perfect culmination of Mitsubishi’s history of automotive excellence: 50 years of electromobility and decades… Continue reading
Automobili Lamborghini presents the Lamborghini Centenario at Geneva Motor Show, in the year the company celebrates the centenary of founder Ferruccio Lamborghini’s birth. Only 20 coup? and 20 roadster versions of the Centenario will be produced and all 40 cars are already sold, at a start price of 1.75 million… Continue reading
-We really, really like the Audi RS7—like, if we went to grade school with it, we’d pass it love notes until we ran out of paper. The RS7 is the ne plus ultra member of a lineup that also includes the A7 and S7 that earned spots on our 10Best… Continue reading
Following a spirited and high energy week as a major central component of Scottsdale, Arizona’s world renowned classic car week events, Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions earlier today announced incredible sales results with early totals reaching $ 20.7 Million on 723 lots offered with 520 hammering sold. This represents… Continue reading
-Some ideas keep coming back. First, AMC put four-wheel-drive hardware under a Concord station wagon (née Hornet Sportabout) and dubbed it the Eagle—and then doubled down and pulled the same stunt with a sedan (and a coupe!). A decade later, Subaru tried the same thing and created the Legacy Outback… Continue reading
– The Aston Martin DB9 is a bit of an enigma. Introduced in 2003, the Henrik Fisker–designed two-plus-two was rightly heralded as a triumph for the esoteric British sports-car brand, boasting a solid, aluminum-intensive structure; a glorious, high-revving V-12; and those drool-worthy looks. That form language has since been applied… Continue reading
-When it debuted at the New York auto show in 2010, the now-outgoing Kia Optima wowed spectators with its attenuated roofline and determined visage, penned under the direction of design boss Peter Schreyer. That Optima established Kia’s current design language, and the new, 2016 version doesn’t stray far from the… Continue reading
-Although it was freshened for 2016—updated styling, a couple of new safety features, more infotainment goodies including an onboard Wi-Fi hotspot—the Chevrolet Equinox cruises blithely into the new model year very much the same small crossover that rolled onto the scene six years ago as a 2010 model. READ MORE… Continue reading