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MALAGA, Spain — Back in the early 2000s, when my mother was still rapidly spending down the proceeds of a profitable divorce from her second husband, she would occasionally send gifts to me and my boyfriend. One Hanukkah, she mailed…

I can’t help but giggle to myself cruising around in the 2022 Mercedes-Maybach S 580. It is so absurdly good at its intended purpose. Just like a Porsche 911 is to performance, the latest Maybach is to all-out luxury. Much of the…

PHOENIX – The 2023 Cadillac Escalade-V was not always in the cards. According to designer Robert Hunwick Jr., his team did a rendering of a more performance-oriented version of the next-generation Escalade during that truck’s…

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There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Cyan Racing unless you’re a fan of World Touring Car Championship racing. Its previous name might ring a bell, however: Polestar Racing. Before the performance road car side of its business…

At last year's Toyota HQ Confidential summit, I had a chance to drive basically anything in the Toyota line-up. I took a Sequoia TRD Pro out on a short off-road course, and while capable, it was appalling how cheap, flimsy and old it…

Pahrump, Nev. – The Audi RS 3 is one of those performance models that feels more like a passion project than a calculated business case. Now that the TT-RS has bowed out of the market, Audi’s track-tuned compact sedan is the only car…

SAN FRANCISCO — As we rounded the corner, a man waved us down. He’d seen the van silently driving around the neighborhood all morning and wanted to know where he can get one. “It’s an EV,” I told him and his excitement grew. “It’s…

AUSTIN, Texas — Getting caught up in the hype machine of retired car names pulling a Tom Brady is easy to do these days — there are so many examples to point at, and they just keep coming. The 2023 Acura Integra adds to this growing…

Ford’s big, burly flagship SUV is no bigger but somewhat burlier for 2022. Two new trim levels were added for the 2022 Ford Expedition as part of a mid-cycle update that included some interior and exterior styling tweaks, revised…

COMO, Italy – BMW's range of models has been partly defined by letters for many years. You've got M, X, and i, and they all represent decidedly different personalities. If you're familiar with the naming system, you know right off…

While the popularity of SUVs continues unabated, in a lot of cases these taller, more imposing vehicles offer little in the way of extra practicality when compared with a conventional hatchback or a large estate.Many people like the raised…

Audi hasn’t felt the need to reinvent the wheel with the latest A3 - its subtle exterior revisions and slightly larger footprint only accentuate the premium look of the stylish family hatchback. Where the German manufacturer has made…

Sedans have become the Jan Brady of automobiles. They’re overlooked and underappreciated, as consumers lavish firstborn attention on SUVs, or coo over the latest electric babies. So when the all-new 2022 Mercedes-Benz C-Class was…

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The Japanese sports cars and sport compacts that hit the road throughout the 1990s are models that we often look back on with a nostalgic glimmer in our eyes, but hold the rad trip down nostalgia lane right there.…