Volvo has come a long way in 12 years. I was the once-proud owner of a 2000 Volvo XC70, a car that I loved and loathed over its lifetime. I loved the seats. I loved the design. I loved the available cargo space.
I despised the regular trips to the dealership for small service repairs. I grew frustrated by the average
Natascha McElhone and her gorgeous cheekbones are one great reason to watch “Ronin,” a 1998 John Frankenheimer movie featuring plenty of backstabbing and double-crossing and Irish dialect, but the better reason is to witness some of the most incredible car chase scenes ever filmed. Among them, a first-generation Audi S8 is careening around Europe at the hands of actor Skipp
In a world where luxury cars are getting smaller and mainstream cars are getting more sophisticated, and in which competing models drive so much alike that choosing one often boils down to a preference in aesthetics, the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a refreshing departure from the norm.
Read: 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Review
“Value” is Relative
A luxury car in name and
With the exception of the sublime Mercedes-Benz S-Class, I typically find that vehicles wearing a three-pointed star badge provide little other than prestige in return for the price they command. Don’t get me wrong. There’s no question that a Mercedes is a well-engineered mode of transportation. It’s just that unless you’re spending jaw-dropping amounts of money on them,
The Range Rover Evoque turns heads. Lots of them as you glide down the road in this smallest-ever Land Rover. Now the Evoque will turn even more heads since this small crossover was named 2012 North American Truck of the Year at the North American International Auto Show held in Detroit, Michigan.
Editor’s Note: The winner of the North American Truck
The Lincoln MKS is the flagship sedan for this luxury division of the Ford Motor Company, a big, comfortable, American car hailing from Chicago, conservatively styled and understated in its expression of luxury. It shares its component set with the Ford Taurus, and that
If Goldilocks were to visit three different Japanese luxury-brand dealerships, she would probably declare the Lexus RX to be too soft, the Infiniti FX to be too hard, and the Acura MDX to be just right.
New York City, NY – If someone asked you to describe luxury, there’s a reasonable chance you’d paint a picture of opulence and overindulgence, a vision of pull-out-all-the-stops grandiosity, one seemingly exemplified by every product and property Donald Trump puts his name on.
On the other end of the luxury spectrum is where you’ll find the 2012 Buick
It’s not as easy to define luxury as it used to be. Consumers are bombarded daily with dubious claims of luxury, from apartments and hotels to clothes and cars. Typically, such claims revolve around brands and the image they project to others, but in many cases it’s easy to look beyond the badge and discover that there’s nothing special about
The BMW 3 Series is the most popular model in the German automaker’s arsenal, which also makes it the most important model in the lineup. BMW, enjoying rising sales around the globe, always needs to get this car exactly right, and consistently succeeds. This success, however, is no occasion to rest on the numerous laurels bestowed upon the 3
