| 50 Years in the Making, Ian Callum’s Custom Jaguar Mk2 Is Incredible—and You Can Buy One of Your Own |
Sep 5th, 2014 |
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Ian Callum has designed a lot of cars, but never one quite as personal as this. Jaguar’s design director is an outspoken and sometimes acerbic Scot who loves his brand and loves the business of design. He’s pretty much the exact opposite of the sort of personality-free corporate drones who inhabit much of the upper […]
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| 2015 Lexus RC F First Drive: The Relentless Pursuit of Edginess |
Sep 5th, 2014 |
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In a market thick with sedans and crossovers and SUVs, two-door coupes are few and far between. Which is why were a little surprised—pleasantly so—when we learned that Lexus would launch the high-performance, rear-wheel-drive RC F coupe into an ever-shrinking market space dominated by the Germans. READ MORE ››
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| Chevrolet Releases Fuel-Economy Estimates for 2015 Colorado V-6, Of Course It’s Segment-Leading |
Sep 5th, 2014 |
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There’s hyperbole, and then there’s Chevrolet’s boast that its new-for-2015 Colorado mid-size pickup’s V-6 fuel economy is “segment-leading.” Now, we don’t intend to detract from the Colorado’s 26-mpg highway rating, but let’s take a look at the Colorado’s competitive set. There’s the Toyota Tacoma, which has been on sale in its current form since 2004, […]
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| “Hey Man, Where’d You Get That Veyron?” “On eBay! For $115K!” |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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Dear former member of the capitalist landed gentry: Are you through with sleeping on the sidewalk? Sure, the budget may not be what it was, but it doesn’t mean you still can’t have the trappings of excessive success at a bargain price. Dust yourself off, hit up six of your old hedge-fund pals for a […]
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| 7 Things You Need to Know About the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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The debut of the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata last night answered one of the most important questions about the new car—what will it look like?—yet it raised many, many more. Mazda hasn’t yet spoon-fed us much official information, so we took matters into our own hands, poking and prodding the car today as we asked […]
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| Car Porn: Learn How to Pronounce “30 Jahre M5” in BMW’s Latest Video |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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From “The Epic Driftmob” to the “M4 Initiation” video, our friends over at BMW seem to have taken a liking to drifting videos lately—and really, who can blame them. BMW’s latest video features the 2015 30 Jahre M5 driving around a soccer arena—mostly sideways, of course—to promote its arrival. M5 enthusiasts may recall another BMW […]
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| 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Gets More Power, More Quiet, and Red Vapor |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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Based on the past month or so of automotive media coverage, Chrysler builds just two cars: the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and its equally horsepower-endowed four-door sibling, the Charger SRT Hellcat. This is not, in fact, true—Chrysler still makes Chryslers, Rams, Fiats, Alfa Romeos, and, of course, Jeeps. And one of those Jeeps, the […]
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| 2015 Toyota Camry and Camry Hybrid Pricing: More More, for Not a Whole Lot More |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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Toyota has extensively messed with its bestselling Camry sedan for 2015—but you wouldn’t know it looking at the car’s pricing. That’s because, compared with the holdover “2014.5″ model-year Camry, the new base model costs just $100 more. Okay, so Toyota previously offered a price-leader Camry L, but that trim level existed purely to give Toyota […]
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| Dodge Viper 2015 Updates: New GT and TA 2.0 Models, Ceramic Blue Special Edition, Two Zany Colors |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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Despite Dodge taking both the Viper supercar and the SRT brand under its care, 2015 is going to be the year of the Hellcat at Dodge. We can only imagine what it’s like to be a mean, scary snake being upstaged by a cat—and it very much has been upstaged by a cat—so it’s no surprise […]
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| Twenty-Four Hours in Sports-Car Heaven: Our Original Test of the Porsche 959 [C/D Archives] |
Sep 4th, 2014 |
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We hesitate to call any car perfect. The absence of flaws in any product of human endeavor is extraordinarily rare. But we have just returned from West Germany, where we finally got a chance to drive a Porsche 959 on the street, and the word “perfect” is difficult to avoid. What single word more accurately […]
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