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The California-designed Z30 Lexus SC combined Japanese engineering with two compelling powertrains. Its used prices make the case for a second look.
Read the essay : America’s Lexus: The California-Born Lexus SC is the Hidden Bargain in Japanese Sport CoupesAutomotive Excellence
Six decades of racing, engineering, and continuous development turned an unconventional rear-engine coupe into the reference point against which sports cars are still measured.
Read the essay : The Sports Car: How Porsche’s 911 Came to Represent PerformanceAutomotive Excellence
The LC500 pairs a 7,100-rpm V8 with true grand-touring comfort. Its distinction is the pleasure it brings to an ordinary drive.
Read the essay : The Best Japanese Grand Tourer Ever BuiltAutomotive Excellence
Cadillac built a bespoke twin-turbo V8 for the CT6, gave it a reported run of 1,200 cars, then let it disappear. The hardware deserved a longer product…
Read the essay : Cadillac’s Blackwing Could Have Been the FutureAutomotive Excellence
Chapron’s DS Décapotable did more than remove a roof. Longer doors, cleaner flanks, structural changes, and the DS’s covered rear wheels turned an already remarkable shape into…
Read the essay : Have You Ever Seen Anything as Lovely as a Citroën DS Décapotable?Automotive Excellence / Interesting Times
The manual transmission is disappearing from ordinary cars, but scarcity, margins, and enthusiast demand can preserve it where buyers will pay for mechanical involvement.
Read the essay : Gatekeeping: Profits Will Save the ManualsAutomotive Excellence / Interesting Times
A luxury car becomes absurd when its engineering, theater, or commercial logic travels farther than the benefit it delivers. Some of the best cars ever made score…
Read the essay : The Absurdity IndexAutomotive Excellence
The W140 treated passenger isolation as a complete engineering problem: structure, suspension, glazing, seating, closures, electronics, and a V12 all served the same unusually expensive brief.
Read the essay : Mercedes W140: The Last Heirloom Luxury CarAutomotive Excellence
BMW’s first production V12 sedan combined speed, quiet, and everyday usability. The generations that followed gradually changed the case for twelve cylinders.
Read the essay : The BMW 750iL Changed EverythingAutomotive Excellence
America has not lost every wagon. It has largely lost the ordinary wagon: the useful long roof that did not require a raised body, an AMG engine,…
Read the essay : Requiem for the WagonAutomotive Excellence
The Celestiq gives Cadillac a credible claim on the highest end of the luxury market. Its price, size, craftsmanship, and technology now have to produce an experience…
Read the essay : The Celestiq Has to Earn Cadillac’s Old Reputation
