AMG's updated 603-hp E63 S is a multi-talented rocket that can play a limousine or a sports car all the way to its top speed. The V-8-powered sports sedan is rapidly becoming an endangered species, making the arrival of the revised Mercedes-AMG E63 S a timely reminder that there won't be too many more examples of what is one of…
It drives better than it looks but doesn’t justify those M badges. Is that a bad thing? Mt. Baldy road is hardly more than an hour's drive from downtown Los Angeles, yet it evokes European alpine passes—those that lead from metropolises to epic vistas and crisp mountain air. Breaking off from the freeway, it crosses a quiet suburb before opening…
The Land Rover Discovery Sport P300e plug-in hybrid promises 135mpg and an all-electric range of 38 miles, but does it deliver? Verdict The switch to plug-in electrification does bring a compromise or two to Land Rover’s most affordable family SUV. You’ll need to accept it as a five-seater only, and it comes with a pretty hefty price that may put…
With striking style and an upscale interior, Kia's new mid-size sedan is some chassis refinement away from rivaling the leaders in its class. Children don't sketch SUVs in study hall and car designers don't spend years in school working their way up to ­studio boss to figure out how to draw a grille and headlights on a potato. The designers…
Toyota's sexy sports car proves it has the presence to match its thrilling performance. We've been driving our Toyota Supra 3.0 for eight months and 10,811 miles, and in that time we've learned something about it that no amount of track testing or comparison test battles could have predicted: that it would have instant street cred. For many people, our…
Monday, 19 October 2020 14:46

BMW M4 design study wears retro red (PHOTO)

The collaboration with N.Y. fashion house Kith is a one-off BMW's M division has revealed a special 2021 M4 Competition coupe that is a collaboration with a New York-based fashion brand. The joint project with design house Kith has resulted in a unique M4 that is described as a design study. The car is finished in Cinnabar Red, a factory…
Today marks the second time a Mazda 929 will grace us here at Rare Rides. Late last year we featured the successor to today’s car, a pristine 929 from 1992. That smooth sedan had frameless windows, rounded shapes everywhere, and was designed specifically with the North American market and Lexus customers in mind. Let’s take a look a the much…
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its all-wheel-drive system, Audi has created a special edition of the Audi TT RS. And it's appropriately, if not imaginatively, called the TT RS 40 Years of Quattro (or 40 Jahre Quattro in the original German). It takes the already extreme sports coupe and adds wilder visuals and an extremely limited production run to…

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At last year's Tokyo Motor Show, Honda surprised everyone by revealing the Prelude concept. The company has already confirmed that the production version will be a hybrid-powered c...