– All we really want from any vehicle is for it to do its job well. It’s a deceptively simple criterion that guides our reviews of everything from burly off-roaders to thrifty subcompacts to ludicrously capable exotics. We’re hard-pressed to think of a vehicle that fulfills its mission better than… Continue reading
-We spend an awful lot of our energy analyzing and quantifying speed. Entire stories are centered around straight-line acceleration, the effects of different tires on 707-hp muscle cars at the drag strip (okay, one 707-hp muscle car), and even prodding rental cars to their top speeds—in reverse. We interrupt that… Continue reading
-Mercedes-Benz gets credit—or blame—for inventing the whole silly “four-door coupe” thing with the CLS550 it launched in the U.S. in 2005. It took Audi and BMW a while to catch on, but today the notion of a sleeker but less functional four-door is so common that it has even spreaded… Continue reading
– To test the Ferrari LaFerrari, we traveled to Italy to the storied marque’s personal track, Fiorano. Ferrari’s offer was this: We could either test there—or not at all. We chose to test. READ MORE ›› – Continue reading
Tuner cars, those science projects engineered to make already-fast cars truly berserk, are often more trouble than they’re worth. But what if you could make a two-ton-plus sports sedan run a sub-11 quarter-mile with nothing more than a computer upgrade? Wouldn’t that be worthwhile? READ MORE ›› Continue reading
Full-size pickups have become so large that a more rationally sized truck seems like a big deal. Indeed, General Motors has been basking in attention for more than two years since announcing that it was bringing all-new mid-size trucks—the Chevrolet Colorado and the GMC Canyon—to market. Now they’re here for… Continue reading
No one talks about personal luxury cars anymore; use of that term peaked some 40 years ago. But the 2015 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG coupe reminds us that, even if there isn’t a modern term for the concept, there remains a distinction between the average luxury car and one so egotistically… Continue reading
While we have nothing but praise and admiration for Ford’s decision to spread stick shifts around the new Mustang lineup, the fact is that many of you will buy automatics just as your forebears did in the 1960s. Back then, slushboxes were the gooey, horsepower-gobbling Neanderthal ancestors to today’s computer-linked,… Continue reading
We simply cannot talk about the GMC Yukon Denali without getting the sticker-shock vapors out of the way. Gaze upon the $ 74,720 figure on our tester’s Monroney, then huff smelling salts like a teenage Dee Dee Ramone left alone with a tube of Testors’ finest cement. That is a… Continue reading
All-wheel-drive sports sedans are a prerequisite for any manufacturer serious about racking up sales in markets where the weather can get frightful. Jaguar learned this the hard way in places like the American Northeast, where BMW’s xDrive, Mercedes-Benz’s 4MATIC, and Audi’s Quattro AWD systems rendered the British brand’s products all… Continue reading
“No! It is not a car for a dentist’s wife!” came my Brit companion’s incredulous response. I was sitting lakeside several years back, having a few beers with some visiting Englishmen, when the topic of the Jaguar XK came up. I might have been overstating my position on the car… Continue reading