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JUST TRY TO MAKE IT TO THE END of this story without scouring the internet for an old Jeep. Such is the supernatural desire-stoking ability of the concepts that the [...]

DON'T GET TOO EXCITED--the latest Regal GS isn't what you think it is. Yes, it has torque-vectoring all-wheel drive, a 310-hp 3.6-liter V-6, and knockout good looks, all of which [...]

Kia's toaster-shaped Soul is a car mimicking a crossover, with a self-image reverse-engineered from TV commercials featuring dancing hamsters. But given that 'real' crossovers are just cars mimicking SUVs, there's [...]

WITH THE DEBUT OF THE Q8 CONCEPT, Audi becomes the second lemming to chase BMW's ungainly X6 coupe/SUV over the edge of vehicular reason. Mercedes recently took the same plunge [...]

* A STARTER FERRARI? To those of us whose 401(k)s contain some pocket lint and an unclaimed McDonald's Monopoly Big Mac, there is no such animal. The $214,533 Portofino replaces [...]

WHEN HYUNDAI LAUNCHED the original 1995 Accent, it did so quite literally. The marketing team luridly punted one airborne in a commercial in which five-foot-three Tyrone 'Muggsy' Bogues, the NBA's [...]

'When sports-sedan makers in this world disappoint the car rags they should fear, and abandon enthusiasts who see or hear, the cry goes up both far and near for... Stinger!' [...]

WAR HAS YET TO REACH AUDI'S DOORSTEP. Unrelenting offensives from sedan alternatives--namely crossovers and coupe-ified four-doors--are leaving traditional sedans bleeding on the battlefield of consumer relevance. Yet, at Audi, A6 [...]

THE MX-5 MIATA RF, or 'Retractable Fastback,' cuts a strikingly sexier profile than the third generation's Power Retractable Hardtop model that it replaces. Where that old Miata's hard roof resembled [...]

IN THE EARLY 1960S, Burkard Bovensiepen found escape from his family's German typewriter-manufacturing business by affixing hotter carbs in BMWs. Stealing the Alpina name from the typewriter outfit, he earned [...]