In this issue

Aston Martin DBX
Enters the Luxury SUV Battle.

The Asphalt Jungle
By Arthur St. Antoine
A drive in Mazda’s MX-5 reinforces yet again the joy of a manual transmission.

Four Seasons Wrap
By Aaron Gold
The 2018 BMW M550i—aka the Rocket Couch—divided our staff due to its amorphous personality..

The Real Fate Of The Furious

PaulWalker left behind a treasure trove of collector cars

7 mins

1988-91 Buick Reatta

THE BUICK REATTA was first conjured in the early 1980s in response to a perceived gap in the marque’s lineup.

5 mins

THE FULL PACKAGE

The world needs Teslas,but it wants the Taycan

5 mins

MAGICAL MINI TOUR

A ROCKING JOURNEY THROUGH ’60S LONDON IN A VINTAGE VERSION OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL 60-YEAR-OLD BRITISH CITY CAR

7 mins

Sense, Silence,Sensibility

VW’s electric beach buggy concept channels the past while embracing the future

5 mins

THE 1,200-HORSEPOWER PUSSYCAT

DRAKO’S GTE LOOKS TO REVOLUTIONIZE PERFORMANCE DRIVING AS WE KNOW IT

9 mins

Past Meets Future

Acura Returns To Its Roots To Find Way Forward Fresh

5 mins

On A Blackwing And A Prayer

The first—and probably last—drive of Cadillac’s latest super sedan

5 mins

Kicking Tail

Toyota’s new sports coupe goes Head 2 Head against Ford’s updated Shelby GT350 pony

8 mins

The Incredible, Invisible

Bugatti’s Final Race Cars Tackle Paris In The Name Of Posterity

7 mins

Porsche GT - Best Car-On Track Or Off

Porsche's new mid-engine GTs reach a new level

6 mins

Korea Calling

Understanding Genesis is easy when you blast around Korea’s roads

9 mins

2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette

At long last

7 mins

Road To Wrist

MHD founder Matthew Humphries on watches, Morgan Motor Company, and design challenges

3 mins

Who The Hell Is Tavo Hellmund, And Why Is He North America's F1 Hero?

TAVO HELLMUND, the lean, dimpled, gimlet-eyed Texan who deftly negotiates the uptight, ultra-sophisticated, almost sinister world of Formula 1 on a daily basis, recently quit chewing tobacco.

7 mins

Back From The Dead, Again

OVER THE COURSE OF THE automobile industry’s six score and 10 years, thousands of car brands have launched. Yet few have flourished, and today almost all have come and gone, save a handful. The car business is murder.

3 mins

2017 Bentley Continental Supersports: Slower Than A Chiron But The Best Conti Yet

Eighty-nine years ago, Woolf Barnato and Bernard Rubin drove the famous Blower Bentley “Old Mother Gun” to victory at Le Mans. Today, you can buy a Bentley with nearly three times the horsepower and drive it to dinner. The 2017 Bentley Continental Supersports—the fastest, quickest, and most powerful production Bentley ever, which also happens to be the world’s fastest four-seater—is the pinnacle of the marque’s performance engineering, just as the Blower Bentley was.

3 mins

2017 Porsche Panamera 4S

Stuttgart’s latest four-door is just like the original—in name only.

6 mins

Remembering David E.

UNLIT ARTURO FUENTE in hand, I scanned my home library’s shelves for something to peruse while enjoying an afternoon cigar.

3 mins

Dreams Delivered

IT’S CHILLY AND gray, and reasonably hard rain is coming down, casting a pall over the otherwise lush, rugged beauty of this German-flavored slice of Switzerland. A terrible day to drive, a great day to be driven. I’m in the backseat of the all-new Rolls-Royce Phantom, and I roll down the double glazed acoustic-glass window to get a quick blast of fresh Swiss air. A cacophony of wind and water rudely intrudes into the cabin. Enough of that. The metal window button is cold to the touch when I press it, and as the window hits the seal it’s as if a set of noise-canceling headphones has suctioned over the car. Time to recline the seat, let my head hit the pillow, and enjoy the magic carpet ride.

6 mins

3D Revolution

You get the feeling Jay Rogers is used to being the smartest guy in the room.

4 mins

Cool Cat

At 90, Bruce Meyers—the man who gave the dune buggy to the world—is still a kid at heart.  

6 mins

Wrangler Genes

IN HIS JUNE 2016 COLUMN, MY esteemed and always insightful colleague Jamie Kitman, while opining about what he sees as the curious I product strategy of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, asked, “What happens when every yahoo who ever wanted a four-door Wrangler either has one or soon will?”

3 mins

Head Of Genesis Design - Leading Man LUC

LUC DONCKERWOLKE ROAMS THE GLOBE TO SUPERVISE TUDIO WORK AND LURE NEW DESIGNERS TO HIS TEAM. BUT HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE A BOSS.

5 mins

Lexus LC 500

DESIGN OF THE YEAR

2 mins

Tesla's Business Model: It's Complicated

OUR CHOICE OF the Tesla Model 3 as Design of the Year does not mark the first time we recognized the design and engineering acumen of Silicon Valley’s “disruptive” car company.

3 mins

Wither The Electric Stove Bolt, GM?

IN CASE YOU haven’t heard the news, the electric Chevrolet Bolt—with its official 235- mile range (or more, as I ran up 267 miles)— is great.

5 mins

Le Mans Like You've Never Seen It

SWISS STUDIO TURNS MCQUEEN’S CULT CLASSIC INTO 64-PAGE GRAPHIC NOVEL

1 min

Turning Point

JAGUAR LAND ROVER IS ON A ROLL. THE PATIENCE of parent company Tata Motors—and its willingness to invest in new product—means the two British luxury brands are healthier than ever. Land Rover, riding the global boom in SUV sales, is setting the pace and making the lion’s share of JLR’s profits right now. Jaguar, a latecomer to the SUV party with its new F-Pace, is playing catch-up as it moves away from relying on increasingly unfashionable sedans and niche-market sports cars. But both face near-term challenges.

3 mins

The Baker, the King, Range Rover, and Me

ONE OF LIFE’S BITTERSWEET things is if you live long enough, many people you love, like, and admire will predecease you. That is the way it always was and, for the time being at least, the way it must be. But such realism was cold comfort today as I sat down to write about a couple sad car-world deaths, only to read of another, which I mention first.

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