flagship vehicles
Report: U.S. Toyota Land Cruiser to Have Retro Look
The Toyota Land Cruiser isn’t dead, but it’s dead in the U.S. If you want a new one, you have to buy the Lexus LX 600. For now, at least. Recently, we learned that Toyota plans to give the U.S. a new Land Cruiser based on the Lexus GX. But that only raised the question of how will Toyota differentiate our new Land…
Infiniti’s New Logo, Showrooms, and Upset Dealers
Infiniti, which is the luxury division of Nissan, which is a Japanese automaker perhaps best known in the States for the Sentra, Altima, or Rogue, unveiled a new logo on Thursday, their fourth in over three decades of existence. You’ll be forgiven for not detecting major differences, because in the center is still the…
Pininfarina-Designed Jaguar XJ220: The Prettiest One
The Jaguar XJ220's silhouette might’ve been a bedroom wall mainstay, but the car itself wasn’t quite the article promised. A twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 evolved from the MG Metro 6R4 was a neat talking point for a supercar, but it was no V12. The switch from all- to rear-wheel drive, ostensibly to keep weight down…
Koenigsegg Sets New 0-250-0 MPH Record
The Koenigsegg Regera, which is almost a decade old, has been setting speed and braking records for a few years now, the kind of thing Koenigsegg does for fun, because at this point they don’t have much to prove to anyone but themselves. On Friday, Koenigsegg said that a Regera set a new record from zero to 400 kph to…