April 30th, 2012 |
Filed under: SUV, Crossover, Bentley, Luxury
If you want a top-of-the-line SUV with serious performance capabilities, look no further than the Volkswagen Group. Its Porsche unit has had tremendous success with the Cayenne, a vehicle that has doubled its sales all on its own – and that’s not even accounting for the Volkswagen Touareg or Audi Q7 that...
April 27th, 2012 |
Filed under: Government/Legal, Lamborghini
Lamborghini is on a bit of a naming spree. Back in April, it was revealed that the Italian automaker (and hopeful SUV maker, too…) put its legal stamp on the names Urus and Deimos, the first of which, as you’re likely aware by now, is the moniker adopted for the concept version of its future sport utility...
April 26th, 2012 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, SUV, Crossover, Maserati, Luxury
Say goodbye to the Maserati Kubang, and say hello to…well, we don’t know what it’ll be called yet, but we’ll be seeing it come January 2014.
According to Automotive News Europe, Maserati will unveil the production version of its SUV – complete with a new name...
April 25th, 2012 |
Filed under: Car Buying, SUV, China
China’s middle class is predicted to mint up to 500 million new bourgeois comrades in the next 15 years, and not only will that mean new car owners, but more of those owners will be women. Along with rising incomes, that has put The Middle Kingdom into an SUV-buying boom driven by “tiger moms,” similar to...
April 23rd, 2012 |
Filed under: SUV, China, Jeep, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style, Off-Road
Much as it is to any automaker doing business there, China has grown to become a vital market for the Jeep brand. In fact, the Chrysler group’s iconic SUV brand sells more vehicles in China than anywhere outside North America. And so to celebrate its success in the Chinese market,...
April 23rd, 2012 |
Filed under: Performance, SUV, China, Videos, Crossover, Lamborghini, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style
The Lamborghini Urus super-SUV is, arguably, the most significant debut of the 2012 Beijing Motor Show. Maybe not in terms of sales volume, but at it’s a completely new direction for the modern Lamborghini brand (nevermind the LM002 “Rambo Lambo”...
April 22nd, 2012 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Performance, SUV, China, Lamborghini, Beijing Motor Show
Everything You Want To Know About Lambo’s Super SUV
The promise is to make it the most powerful series production SUV on the market, but also the least polluting.
Lamborghini has told us repeatedly that it wasn’t planning on doing such a thing anytime soon. We...
April 19th, 2012 |
Filed under: Performance, SUV, China, Europe, Mercedes-Benz, Beijing Motor Show, Off-Road
Mercedes-Benz has been kind enough to give us all a glimpse of the company’s 2013 G63 AMG ahead of the super SUV’s debut at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show. A 5.5-liter AMG-built twin-turbo V8 engine lurks behind the updated face, complete with a heady 544 horsepower...
April 18th, 2012 |
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Audi, Volkswagen
No surprises here. On a day in which Audi has dominated the news – by buying Ducati and unveiling a new concept for the Beijing auto show – it completes the hat trick by announcing that its new factory will be built in Mexico. Production is slated to begin in 2016, but Audi only announced that the...
April 18th, 2012 |
Filed under: Hybrid, SUV, Technology, Lexus, Luxury
The Google self-driving-vehicle fleet has grown by one. According to Wired, the tech giant has added a black Lexus RX450h to its autonomous stable. The hybrid SUV was spotted out on the road for testing wearing a new roof-mounted sensor array that’s significantly more streamlined than the gear found on...