On November 30, the VIP Preview day of this year’s edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach, the BMW Art Car by John Baldessari celebrated its world premiere. The 19th vehicle of the BMW Art Car Collection was designed by the American master of conceptual art and revealed in the… Continue reading
Hyundai Motor America will show five new concepts at the 2016 SEMA show news conference, including a special skunkworks race concept on November 1 at 10:30 a.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Special details about the skunkworks race project will be shared at the news conference. Hyundai To Show… Continue reading
Leading the charge of formidable Italian thoroughbreds, the outstanding 1956 Ferrari 500 Testa Rossa fended off rivals to steal the Best of Show on the Thursday of Salon Priv?. Italian Thoroughbreds Reign Supreme At 2016 Chubb Insurance Concours d’El?gance originally appeared on Conceptcarz.com on Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:05:39 EST.… Continue reading
Overall sales totals reached $ 50 million at the 2016 Mecum Daytime Auction in Monterey, Calif., with strong individual sales topped by several cars that reached or exceeded the million-dollar mark. Headlined this year by three vehicles that hammered at $ 4.7 million, $ 4.4 million and $ 3 million,… Continue reading
RM Sotheby’s, the world’s largest collector car auction house for investment-quality automobiles, continued its strong sales run in Monterey, California this past weekend, generating an impressive $ 117,925,0001 in sales at its flagship sale during the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance weekend. Highlighted by a terrific roster of fresh-to-the-market, blue-chip automobiles,… Continue reading
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– The typical new car launches with much fanfare and then goes three or four years with few changes until its “shiny new” wears off. After a few mid-cycle upgrades, it then soldiers on for a few more years until, usually, it is replaced by an all-new version. So logic… Continue reading
-Hyundai dialed back the pizazz of the latest Sonata when it redesigned the family sedan for 2015. It’s a better all-around car and impresses with a spacious back seat and generous trunk capacity. It’s more mature-looking now, too, even if it lacks the sculpted lines of the last-generation Sonata and… Continue reading
– We can’t imagine that many buyers feel torn between a performance hatchback and a compact-crossover SUV, but if you’re one of these indecisive individuals, you’ll want to know about the Mercedes-Benz GLA250, which inexplicably merges these segments into one handsome package. READ MORE ›› – Continue reading
-After 120,000 miles divided among a 2012 BMW 328i sedan, a 2014 BMW 328d xDrive wagon, and a 2015 BMW M3, we’re ready for a respite from the sixth-generation 3-series. Each one of those recent long-termers left us cold: too disconnected, too expensive, or too flinty, but most of all,… Continue reading
– Overview: Subaru’s BRZ, which was co-developed with Toyota and also has been sold as a Scion—it will be transitioned to Toyota’s 2017 lineup after Scion dies—first appeared for the 2013 model year. Inexpensive, rear-drive, and a ball to drive, the BRZ technically has no direct competitors, unless you count… Continue reading
-The average as-tested price of the four full-size pickups in our most recent comparison test was $ 56,409. And that’s not even the half of it: The most expensive half-ton truck right now is the Ford F-150 Limited, which tops out north of $ 68,000. Hop inside that truck, and… Continue reading
– The Audi S5 cabriolet has been around for a while—seven years, to be exact. And the coupe on which it’s based has been around for about nine years, a veritable epoch in automobile time. And yet—sigh—it’s still so very pretty. Walter de Silva’s droptop masterpiece still turns heads with… Continue reading