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 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 TOM LUDWICK Mazda releases a few shots of its much-loved compact. The next Mazda 3 arrives amid lofty expectations. At Car and Driver we’re big fans of the current model. The 3 took second place in a comparison test of sensible four-doors, and the Mazdaspeed 3 has had a position on our 10Best list [...]
BY STEVE SILER Honda touches up its bestseller with revised styling and a couple of new trim levels. Honda knows how to time things. Just as fuel costs have prompted Americans to say “Whoa, Mamma Joe!” on their personal appetites for fuel (i.e. they are downsizing their rides), Honda is ready to receive them with [...]
by: Leslie Lackman HERE’S THE BAD NEWS. Engines waste gasoline! Up to 80% of the high-priced gas that you pump doesn’t get you anywhere because it goes UNBURNED to the catalytic converter. That means you are getting 0 MPG (zero, zilch, nada) from most of the over-priced gasoline you pump into your tank. WHY DO [...]
