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2018 Mercedes-AMG S63 First Test: Burning Rubber in Style

It’s hard to overstate how incredible the sixth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class is. The interior’s opulence is more in line with a Bentley or Rolls-Royce than a BMW 7 Series, yet we tested a 2014 S63 hitting 60 mph in 3.7 seconds. Toss the car into a corner, and it’ll handle far better than a nearly 5,000-pound […]

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2018 Porsche 911 GT3 First Test: Beauty Beheld

I stopped counting at 11, any significance to the number a happy coincidence. I always record my conversations with Randy Pobst, held in the doorway of whatever car he’s just lapped. It’s best to get him while everything’s fresh, before anyone says anything that might color his impressions. Today, his impressions were things of beauty. […]

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2017 BMW M2 Long-Term Update 5: Is the M2 Too Hard, Too Hot, And Too Pricey?

We love our M2, love its size, its blistered fenders, and really love its snarling 365-hp 3.0-liter N55 twin-scroll turbo-six. What might be hard to love is its $57,795 as-tested price. Recently, we reviewed a $48,070 (as tested) 248-hp turbo-four 2017 BMW 230i and came away delighted and mightily impressed, but we still felt like […]

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2018 Subaru WRX STI Type RA First Drive

Flush with cash in October 2001, just before the dot-com bubble burst, I went to an Audi dealer to buy an S4 Avant. Perhaps it was my Alice Donut T-shirt and camo shorts, but I couldn’t get a salesperson to even look at me, let alone give me a test-drive. I’d read a review in […]

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2017 Ford GT First Test: The Price of Priceless

The long, low sweep of bodywork absorbs the early morning sun and radiates a warm glow, the candy apple red paint providing the aura of smoldering coals. It’s a dreadfully chilly morning in the Mojave Desert as we huddle close to the car to catch some reflected warmth. It’s not the first time we’d stood […]

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2018 Ford Mustang Bulllitt First Look: Famed Car Returns

It was supposed to be a surprise: a dollop of sports car news at an auto show dominated by pickup trucks. But the cat is out of the bag with numerous confirmations that Ford will reveal the 2018 Bullitt Mustang GT later today at the North American International Auto Show. The famed Mustang will be […]

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2019 Lamborghini Urus First Look Sans Cladding: More Info on Lamborghini’s New SUV

We have already taken a spin in a cladded-up prototype example of the second production Lamborghini SUV, the new Urus, last month, and it made a fairly positive impression on our own Jonny Lieberman. Now the camo-wrap is off and the details are coming into clearer focus. The pricing will start at about an even […]

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2019 Lamborghini Urus Prototype First Drive Review: Magic Bullet

Let’s dispense with the elephant in the room. The Lamborghini Urus has as much to do with the LM002—aka the Rambo Lambo, the amazing Countach-powered stud of an SUV favored by oil sheiks and sold by Lamborghini in the 1980s—as I do with Gal Gadot. Thing is, because of the legitimate off-roading heritage given to […]

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2019 Aston Martin Vantage First Look

Aston Martin’s current Vantage, launched in 2005, has long suffered an identity crisis. With design cues cribbed from the larger, more expensive DB grand turismos, and powertrain and suspension hardware that never quite delivered the precision and performance expected of a car intended to tackle Porsche’s quicker 911s and entry-level Ferraris, the entry-level Aston struggled […]

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2018 Ferrari GTC4Lusso T First Drive Review: Escape from New York

“My job is hardly work sometimes,” is a common refrain heard around the Motor Trend office. Example: On a Tuesday afternoon, my inbox pinged, “Wanna drive a V-8 turbo Ferrari wagon up the Hudson River Valley? Please LMK ASAP.” Hmm. What would you reply? “YOLO, OMW!” So on Sunday morning, I was boarding a flight […]

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