PAUL DEAN

A quick, responsive, no-nonsense machine reminiscent of the days when we would run what we brung, the Porsche 911 GT3 (www​.porsche.com) is built for owners who enjoy spending weekends on racetracks flogging their cars. Expect no luxuries in this two-seater that has been in production since 1999 and has a starting price of about $130,000: […]

While it is true that the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante (www.astonmartin.com) is the brand’s quickest and most powerful model ever, the venerable British sports-car maker also could claim that this $298,000 convertible version of its revitalized flagship is the best Aston Martin ever. With supercar lines borrowed from the One-77, a fluted carbon-fiber fuselage, and […]

A hybrid of the highest order…

The venerable British carmaker’s youthful spirit…

To separate the Bentley Flying Spur (www.bentleymotors.com) from its GT kin, the company has dropped “Continental” from the car’s title. Nevertheless, the Flying Spur’s styling is such that you still have to count the doors to be sure it is a sedan and not a coupe. The interior is roomier and taller than the insides […]

Luxurious enough to be owned by royalty, the Land Rover Range Rover Sport Autobiography (www.landrover.com) also possesses off-road abilities that enable it to traverse deserts, bogs, and Antarctic snowfields. Credit for the latest model’s enhanced mobility and versatility goes to the Land Rover designers and engineers who replaced the heavy steel bodies and chassis of […]

Hybrid and Mighty: The Porsche 918 Spyder

Continental Divide While some may carp about the size, price, and decadent details of Bentley cars, knowing souls concur that the company has always represented the apogee of poise and luxury. The four-door Flying Spur is indeed large (nearly 17.5 feet long) and expensive (more than $200,000), but it also is graceful, spacious, luxurious, and […]

Back in the Game It had been a long time since Jaguar built a sports car—some four decades, in fact. This hiatus came after the company had produced the SS100 in the 1930s, the XKs in the ’50s, and the E-Types in the ’60s and into the ’70s. Does the F-Type—specifically the V8 S variant, […]

Happy Return Stingray, a Chevrolet designation first given to a Corvette in 1963, has become a synonym for daring GM design, legendary Detroit engineering, and sporty American muscle. General Motors pirated some of the original Stingray’s styling from Jaguar’s E-Type and some from a mako shark, basing the rest on wind-tunnel testing for aerodynamics. The […]