Mark Ewing

For 2024 Porsche is once again offering eight cylinders in the Cayenne S. Cayenne S V8 combines satisfying on-road performance with a considerable measure of utility.

For 2024, Porsche Macan is battery-electric, and offers 630 horsepower and a walloping 833 lb.-ft. of torque. Macan Turbo defines the space of Electric Super-CUV.

Porsche is investing in demonstrable upgrades of its existing gasoline vehicles to keep them relevant and fresh. Meet the 670 horsepower Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid.

Miata Club is a purist small-displacement sports car that can keep its owner’s skills with a manual gearbox and clutch pedal sharp and well toned.

Rolls-Royce Spectre redefines The Grand Entrance. Spectre is among the coolest cars visiting our planet at this moment in time.

In the run-up to Monterey Car Week, Mercedes-AMG unveiled the first U.S. offering of its in-house atelier.

Porsche’s 2024 Cayenne lineup receives a major refresh done the Porsche way, with significant upgrades as well as some clean-canvas redesign of major systems. The most desirable of all is the blisteringly quick 650-horsepower Turbo GT.

Mercedes-AMG’s EQE and EQS are battery-electric luxury 4-door fastbacks that illustrate the inherent value of companies the Silicon Valley fanboys love to call “legacy” automakers, and in this case the value of the company that founded the auto industry. Both cars are virtually flawless.

Aston Martin’s DBX707 is one of the most ferocious beasts in the Supercar Jungle, and for this moment in time is the wildest and rarest of all Super-SUVs. Aston scaled up architecture drawn from its excellent 2-seat sports cars to create this Highboy 4-door.

Pagani Automobili is launching its third-generation supercar, the Utopia. Pagani represents the supercar path less taken. More analog, more emphasis on the driver. And all powered by a 864hp V12 developed with partner Mercedes-AMG.

Ferrari is returning to the top category of professional sports car racing for the first time in a half-century with the gas-electric hybrid 499P, which will contest the new Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) category.

Lotus will soon introduce its first all-new battery-electric 4-door, the Eletre CUV, first significant fruit of Geely ownership. The base Eletre may be engineered for the Chinese market, but the top-spec dual-motor R’s performance should impress when it eventually arrives in America.

Cowboys and Aliens has nothing on Rolls-Royce, apparently.

Monterey Car Week is the proverbial moveable feast of the world’s best and most exciting automobiles. Here is a sampling of the most interesting cars presented.

Last Thursday on roads north of Malibu, as run-up to Monterey Car Week, I had 90 minutes behind the wheel of the first production 1900-horsepower battery-electric Pininfarina Battista, with chief engineer Paolo Dellacha riding shotgun.

Rolls-Royce Ghost II is built on the same space frame architecture as the Phantom and Cullinan SUV. With acceleration to rival many sports cars, Ghost II Black Badge is a luxury cocoon muscle car.

To transition America’s passenger car and commercial fleets to 100 percent Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) by 2050, is the answer a complete conversion to battery-electric vehicles? Or a portfolio that includes internal combustion (ICE), gas-electric hybrid, battery-electric (BEV) and fuel cell?

To transition America’s passenger car and commercial fleets to 100 percent Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) by 2050, is the answer a complete conversion to battery-electric vehicles? Or a portfolio that includes internal combustion (ICE), gas-electric hybrid, battery-electric (BEV) and fuel cell?

Kevin Czinger and his son Lukas assembled a team of former Formula One and Le Mans race car engineers to develop the world’s first 3D-printed hypercar, the 1250-horsepower Czinger 21C, the first of several planned 3D printed Czinger vehicles.

Last week, Lotus unveiled its Lightweight Electric Vehicle Architecture, or LEVA, a highly modular and mutable battery-electric architecture that will serve as basis for two sports cars and possibly a 2+2 GT. Richard Rackham, head of Lotus Vehicle Concepts, a. sat for an interview.