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..

Mini Rocks London
By Colin Goodwin
The Mini has been a staple of London’s streets for 60-plus years. To celebrate, we take it on a magical mystery tour of some of the city’s ’60s-era landmarks.

Norwegian Wild
By Lawrence Ulrich
Norway isn’t the first place we’d think of to romp around in Lamborghini’s Huracán Evo, but the car shines in a land where the sun refuses to set...

The Big 30 - By Aaron Gold and Arthur St. Antoine Born out of a perceived need to create more luxurious alternatives to Toyotas and Nissans, Lexus and Infiniti have traversed similar paths during their 30 years in the U.S., with uneven results. We take a look back at some notable cars and travel to Japan and old L.A. in search of where they’re headed.

Life’s a Drag
By Elana Scherr
For more than 50 years, native Hawaiian Roland Leong has been immersed in the drag racing scene, tuning cars for the legends of the sport. We follow Leong as he heads off to another island, Great Britain, to participate in a homespun event called Dragstalgia, where he imparts his special wisdom to a bunch of nitro-huffing Brits at Santa Pod Raceway near London.

Editor’s Letter
By Mike Floyd

GM’s Global B is all 
Four Seasons Wrap
By Nelson Ireson
It’s not hyperbole to say that the 2017
Honda Civic Type R was one of the best
long-term vehicles we’ve ever had.
What to Watch
By Conner Golden
We’re back with our annual watch
guide, which showcases the best
new timepieces on the market for
every budget and taste. We also talk
with Matthew Humphries, a former
Morgan Motor Company designer, on
the challenges of—and similarities to—
styling watches as opposed to cars.
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Auctions
By Rory Jurnecka
It’s mostly positive at the annual Bonhams
Goodwood Festival of Speed sale.
Underappreciated
By Brett Berk
The Eagle Talon TSi was one of the
ace cars of the Diamond Star
Motors offerings.
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Noise, Vibration
& Harshness
By Jamie Kitman
How Uber and Lyft are disrupting the way
we get around—in all the wrong ways.

Venice Meets Korea
By Aaron Gold
We wondered what a bunch of hardcore
Mustang old-schoolers and true-blue
Americans like the Original Venice
Crew would think of a new-school
Korean hot rod like our Four Seasons
Kia Stinger. Not surprisingly, they had
a lot to say while taking its measure.

Speedster Celebration
By Basem Wasef
Porsche has no shortage of cars from its
storied history that it can revisit for the
modern age, and the Speedster is one
of its most heralded. As a send-off for
the 991-series 911, the German sports
car maker has gone to the Speedster
well once again for a special edition.

Transcontinental GT
By Mike Shaffer
A century of winning and wafting
sparks a transcontinental drive in
the newest Bentley Continental GT.

Roadster Beautiful
By Elana Scherr
What does it take to claim the title
of America’s Most Beautiful
Roadster? Lots of hard work and
a devotion to 70 years of tradition.

Catching
Up With …
By Mac Morrison
Ralph Macchio,
aka the Karate Kid
and star of “Cobra
Kai,” tells the tale
of a special Ford
Super Deluxe
convertible.

Casting Away
By Elana Scherr
If you were to create a captivating
tale of decades spent racing, you’d
fill it with exhilarating successes and
devastating blows. But NASCAR
great Bobby Allison’s life is no work of
fiction. We met him for what started
as a day of fishing but evolved into a
lesson on living your best life.

Drive All the BMWs
By Automobile Staff
BMW has been reimagining several
vehicles to get back on the ultimate
performance track. We have a go in
the latest generation of the 3 Series,
the all-new Z4, and the 8 Series—
our Design of the Year. And while we
were at it, we got stints in the coming
M8 and new 8 Series race car.

Noise, Vibration
& Harshness
By Jamie Kitman
PSA’s plan to return to America
is nothing but smart.

Underappreciated
By Brett Berk
A Lincoln truck seemed like a
good idea at the time, and the
Blackwood was born.

Thundering Triad
By Georg Kacher
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage appears poised to take
its place among today’s top-tier sports cars. But to be
the best, it will have to prove its mettle against two of
Germany’s finest—the Mercedes-AMG GT C and the
Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS—in an alpine shootout to
thoroughly test the dynamic capabilities of all three.

Noise, Vibration
& Harshness
By Jamie Kitman
Jaguar is electrifying the past, and
that bodes well for the future.

Ringing in
a Record
By Steven Cole Smith
Given the obsession that has
developed around lap times at
Germany’s famed Nürburgring
Nordschleife, it seems almost
absurd that the world-record
lap of the Green Hell stood for 35
years. It’s also fitting that the record
set in a Porsche was just shattered
by one. We go behind the scenes
at the ’Ring as the manufacturer
makes history—again—this time
with its 919 Hybrid Evo race car.

Non-Trivial Pursuit
By Rory Jurnecka
Our guide to Pebble Beach and
Monterey Car Week takes the
stress and strain—and even some
of the expense—out of one of the
world’s most exciting weeks of
automophilia so you can make the
most of your time on the peninsula.

The Asphalt Jungle
By Arthur St. Antoine
How to get your old-school
British off-roader fix in
supremely elegant style.

Noise, Vibration
& Harshness
By Jamie Kitman
Rolling down to
spring training in
a proper British
motorcar.

The Asphalt Jungle
By Arthur St. Antoine
It never grew old seeing
what Mr. Toad and his
mild ride were up to.

Letters
Your take on our All-Stars,
plus design critiques.

Noise, Vibration & Harshness
By Jamie Kitman
Braving Canadian winter in search of Danish coziness— in a Ferrari, naturally.


The Asphalt Jungle
By Arthur St. Antoine
The cars and stars of Sunset
Boulevard keep us coming back
for more.

Great Eight
By Automobile Staff
This year was among the most
difficult evaluations in the history
of our event. Compelling arguments
were made for far more than the eight
vehicles we ultimately chose as the
2018 All-Stars, but when the votes
came in, this group stood just high
enough above the rest to make the
top step of the podium.

Three-Day Tour
By Rory Jurnecka
The annual weeklong auction
extravaganza in Scottsdale, Arizona,
is a festival of gavels flying, auctioneers
yammering, and huge crowds gawking
at, dreaming about, and—most
importantly—buying millions worth of
collectible automobiles. We survey the
scene at five of the biggest houses during
the unofficial start of the auction season.

Genesis Man
By Ronald Ahrens
As the head of Genesis design,
Luc Donckerwolke roams the globe
in search of talent to stock his team
with—as he maestros the efforts
of the brand’s far-flung studios. We
also head to Korea to see and drive
the new G70.

Race Driver
Whisperer
By Jethro Bovingdon
The chain-smoking New Zealander
behind some of motorsports’
biggest talents.

Blinky Lights
By Chris Cantle
Ever wonder what it’s like to drive a
pace car? Nerve-wracking, mostly.

Challenge Accepted
By Arthur St. Antoine

Since 1993, the Ferrari Corso Pilota program
has been the ultimate fantasy-to-reality
experience for anyone with the desire—and
wherewithal—to become a Ferrari racecar
driver. Our own Arthur St. Antoine learns what it
takes to be a pilota of a 488 Challenge car and checks in with a former
graduate, actor Michael Fassbender, who is living out his dreams on the track.

By Design
By Robert Cumberford
The Pebble Beach Concours
d’Elegance’s Best of Show is
ostensibly about elegance. Robert
Cumberford challenges that
assumption with his analysis
of this year’s winner.

Four Seasons
Update: Fiat 500X
By Todd Lassa
The love of cars is often found
in the unlikeliest of places, like
metropolitan Milwaukee. We take
a trip to the Fiat Freakout in our
Four Seasons 500X to investigate
a slice of Fiat fandom

Sails Tales
By Basem Wasef

Capt. Giovanni Soldini’s exploits have become the stuff of seafaring legend. We catch up with him as he prepares to run his special Maserati Multi70 trimaran in the Transpacific Yacht Race. Plus, we see how the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup team plans to bring back sailing glory to Great Britain.

Act Eight - Rolls-Royce’s all-new Phantom signifies the marque’s reclamation of past glory, regardless of whether or not it’s the best car in the world.

New and Future Cars - Our special annual look at what the market has in store is bigger and better than ever, with more than 100 vehicles that deserve serious consideration. From economical and family-friendly offerings to the latest all-electric options to multi-million-dollar hypercars, there is plenty of goodness in store.  

Moon Shot - Humans have not set foot on the moon since 1972, when Apollo 17 astronauts left their lunar rover behind. But Audi has teamed with Part-Time Scientists to develop a new, unmanned Lunar Quattro rover, two of which are scheduled to return to the satellite in 2018 to assess their predecessor’s condition. 

Gesundheit - Three years since the initial installment of Luftgekühlt, the Los Angeles gathering of air-cooled Porsche enthusiasts continues to grow. We pay a satisfying visit to the fourth edition of this treasure trove of automotive-culture coolness.  

The Still-Affordable Porsche - Not everyone loves the ’70s-era 914, but the mid-engine car is a financially viable alternative for German sports-car loyalists. Also, we look at auction results from RM Sotheby’s in L.A. and Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Driving Ford’s New GT: CLASSIC -  A Legit Successor to its Supercar Ancestors.

THE MAN WHOSE MOTOR VALLEY DREAMS CAME TRUE - PAGANI.

We find a pair of the coolest cars you’ve never heard of LOWRIDER GOES TO D.C.

The Gypsy Rose takes its place among other automotive giants.

A WEEK IN MONTEREY - The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is only the beginning.

900 MILES ACROSS ENGLAND IN McLAREN’S LATEST SUPER SERIES SUPERHERO - MEGA 720S.

BUGATTI CHIRON -  APPROACHING MAXIMUM VELOCITY IN THE ASTONISHING NEW BEAST OF A HYPERCAR.
 
DRIVEN WOMAN - SERA TRIMBLE’S RISE TO THE TOP OF THE STUNT-DRIVING WORLD.

PLUS:
M STARS: DRIFTING AND DRIVING BMW’S M2 AND 1 SERIES M.
HYDROGEN HUFFER: HAULING IN HONDA’S LATEST CLARITY FUEL CELL.
VUHL 05: MEET MEXICO’S DEDICATED TRACK CAR.

THE SNARLING NEW 505-HP GIULIA QUADRIFOGLIO SEDAN MEETS ITS ANCESTORS - ALFADOGS.

N600 - TRACING THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF THE FIRST HONDA EVER SOLD IN THE U.S.

RANCH HAND - EXPLORING THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT IN AN AUDI ALLROAD.

+DRIVEN - BMW M760i GETS THAT M MAGIC VOLVO V90 CROSS COUNTRY ON ICE.

In Search Of - From Mount Charleston above Sin City to the asphalt and curbing of Speedvegas, we evaluate 23 of the best cars on the market in a quest to crown our 2017 All-Stars.

Need for Speedvegas - Just south of the Vegas strip, a new facility allows car guys and gals of all skill levels to go fast in a variety of coveted cars. Speedvegas CEO Aaron Fessler gives us the tour.

Also Starring - Not all of our contenders went home winners, but they’re all special in their own right. We break down each vehicle’s strengths and weaknesses.

Put a smile on your face and the faces of everyone who sees you rolling by in the lovable BMW Isea 300.

Catching Up With … Young American race-car driver Conor Daly sets his sights on a breakout IndyCar season.

Destination: Anywhere - Off-road racer Greg Foutz proves the aluminum-bodied 2017 Ford Raptor is a powerhouse as much at home in daily commuter traffic as it is flying over desert table-top jumps.

Access Granted - “Extreme takes on a new meaning for gravity-defying, off-road acrobats in the land of fire and ice. Say no to caution, wield your hammer, and hit the mud with these fearless Icelanders for Formula Offroad.

Italian for Road Trip - A lot changes in 40 years, but some of the best things remain the same. We reminisce about the time a herd of Lamborghinis were unleashed on some of Europe’s most exciting roads.

From Racetrack to Canvas - Pro driver Sam Posey competed for years before replacing his helmet with a microphone and becoming a star U.S. F1 commentator. Despite a battle with Parkinson’s, he’s kept very busy.

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