BY TOM LUDWICK
Adieu Arnage: A special edition to celebrate the end of an era for the company’s four-door flagship.
Bentley is readying a Final Series model of its Arnage flagship that it will show at the 2008 Paris auto show. In addition to being a final sendoff for the old-school sedan —due for cancellation after the [...]
BY JENS MEINERS
This 500-hp monster is the strongest commitment to the diesel engine yet.
Some folks are writing off the diesel. The future, they say, lies in electric vehicles, with hybrids as the transition technology. Diesel fuel is expensive, they continue, and there is the further popular conception that diesels are not “clean.” In reality, a [...]
BY JUERGEN ZOELLTER, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE DUSHANE, MATTHIAS KNOEDLER, AND THE MANUFACTURER
The world’s fastest convertible: Only 150 will be made, at $2.2 million apiece.
Despite the current economic nose dive, the hugely expensive Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is selling faster than expected. To date, 230 of the expected 300 Veyrons have been sold, for 1.1 million euros [...]
BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD PRINCE
A car nobody needs hits a track nobody knows for a ride nobody will forget.
Just past the curve in which Bruce McLaren bought it, and right before the corner where Niki Lauda had his face burned off, we realize the truth: General Motors must still be mad about our [...]
BY STEVE SILER
Maserati takes us to Mozart’s hometown to play a 4.7-liter symphony.
For most of the last 45 years, Maserati has been a presence, but hardly a dominant force in the market. In sports cars, for example, Ferrari and Porsche have overshadowed Maserati’s best. In terms of luxury sedans, which Maserati has built off and [...]
BY JENS MEINERS
Porsche refers to it as a new generation, even though the internal chassis code 997 remains unchanged. We see it as more of a mid-term facelift with some significant technological changes. Notably, the water-cooled flat-six engines get direct-injection technology, and a seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission replaces the previous five-speed Tiptronic automatic while the shift-it-yourself [...]
