The Audi A3 was hailed back in 1996 for its sleek design, which hasn’t changed much over the last 15 years. The car which was designed to be a small family car was released after the end of the Audi 50 model. As an entry level luxury car the A3 will be watched closely by [...]
BY RAY HUTTON There have been endless predictions that the famous and once-revered Alfa Romeo marque would return to the U.S., having departed in 1995. And later this year, it is really going to happen—with just 84 cars from a limited production run of 500. The $250,000 8C Competizione is a special-edition, two-seat sports coupe [...]
BY TONY SWAN Are you ready for a Ferrari to drive to the office, the mall, the beach, the slopes—anywhere, everywhere? That’s the concept behind this revival of a name from Ferrari’s storied past—a fast GT that supplies style, panache, plenty of performance, and thanks to its folding hardtop and “two-plus” interior layout, an unusually [...]
BY STEVE SILER Aston shows that it has little trouble doing what Porsche clearly can’t: build a beautiful four-door sports car. While we still haven’t received official information on the upcoming Aston Martin Rapide super sedan, Aston Martin has released a pair of computer-generated images following two weeks during which leaked images found their way [...]
BY JENS MEINERS If the 911 is the quintessential Porsche, then the weight-optimized and more powerful—yet naturally aspirated—GT3 is the quintessential 911. But its aficionados needed patience; while the more humble versions of the 911 were updated last summer, the GT3 and Turbo have soldiered on without changes.
BY TONY QUIROGA, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TOM DREW AND THE MANUFACTURER Some might call it the “poster effect”—when you finally see a Lamborghini in person after years of only seeing them on posters, the effect is childlike giddiness. The jump from wall art to reality is mesmerizing, and the crazy origami spaceship with Lamborghini badges sitting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
