Ah, the Monterey Vintage Weekend is right around the corner, and that means a whole bunch of good things. There’s the races out at Laguna Seca, the Concours at Pebble Beach and the Concorso Italiano (is that still at The Quail?), and of course, auctions. And no, these aren’t you’re run of the mill Barrett/Jackson [...]
Built as a personification of limitless automotive expression, the supercar is an alluring creation built to encapsulate the finest engineering and technology. Unsurprisingly assembled with literally gloved hands, an auto manufacturer’s supercar is often characterized by limited production numbers and a high price tag. A cost that would be considered extremely outrageous for the majority [...]
Sovereign debt issues, a downgrade in the United States’ credit rating, riots in London – the world’s problems are many. Despite economic headwinds though, global sales of automobiles are up strongly, from the top down. Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are all beneficiaries of this, with impressive totals for July. The BMW Group has reported a [...]
Before AMG was a performance package you could order for seemingly every model Benz that rolls of the line (and by the by, where’s my AMG Unimog?) they actually race cars for the great German firm. Not only that, they did race cars with some of the most unlikely of starting points. That all began [...]
Regulations and a focus on efficiency is leading a lot of manufacturers to abandon naturally-aspirated V-8 engines for turbocharged six-cylinder variants. Ford’s EcoBoost, anyone? For the most part, that is OK with us too. It’s nice to see some large V-8s out there though, and one can be found in the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black [...]
Exercising care with how they choose to portray their luxury car brand in the United States, Mercedes-Benz has maintained the C-Class as the closest entry-level offering. In Europe where smaller cars are a common sight on tighter roads, vehicles like the A-Class micro car has been trusted to wear the Mercedes-Benz tri-star badge despite being [...]
The only true disappointment with many auto shows is the limited or non-existent opportunity of seeing the greatest creations in motoring in motion. Taking place on the first weekend of July, the 2011 edition of the Goodwood Festival of Speed is an outside exhibition where museum-quality, near priceless machines are seen and heard. Within a [...]
A phenomenon created when major road networks were formulated across North America in the 1950s, the summer family automobile trip was inaugurated. Originally identified as a time when a large station wagon was loaded up with belongings, the trip in route to a landmark or camping ground for some family memories. In the 1980s, minivans all but destroyed [...]