Coupe Reviews

Remember the Audi Nuvolari show car? That 2003 concept was design chief Walter de'Silva's first project at Audi; as we now see, it was also a faithful predictor of the new Audi A5, the brand's first full-size coupe since the Audi Coupe Quattro disappeared from more

Porsche builds some of the finest sports cars in the world, but without the Carrera GT, the brand doesn't currently have a wild, world-beating exotic. Apparently RUF, a highly regarded aftermarket Porsche tuner, saw that gap in the market, so it went ahead and more

Nissan has given the 350Z coupe and roadster range a freshening both inside and out. The interior gains a door panel designed with a water-bottle holder, an extra cupholder in the center console, a new navigation system, and an MP3-compatible audio package. Ou more

They gave me the keys to a Lamborghini. They said it was the LP640 and that it would easily do 200 mph. And I thought: Where can I take this car? Where can a Lamborghini work the way it was intended to work? more

Diving into Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch's tight turn 2, the Porsche 911 Carrera S nips under the Ferrari F430. A silver scimitar suddenly splits the red haze. Porsche and Ferrari are natural foes--always have been, always will be. But will the sports car more

Never mind that the confrontation is a year away; the shooters are already vying for high ground. Knife fighters know better than to show up at this bazooka battle. Contenders armed with anything less than a hot V-8 will be blown to smithereens. more

Listen, it's all right to think about driving an exotic sports car. We've finally put behind us all those images of the characters on Miami Vice--the culture cowboys, drug dealers, and pro athletes driving around in trashy symbols of conspicuous consumption. T more

Lucca, Italy - Rational parameters such as sense and sensibility simply don't belong in the same universe as the new Murcilago LP640 roadster. This Lambo's craziest element, its soft top, is located about an inch above your scalp. It's made of a mix of canvas more

Alois Ruf is the warrior monk of the Porsche business, religiously dedicated to high performance. His shop in the tiny village of Pfaffenhausen to the west of Munich is a place where people from all over the world come to get in touch with the true spirit of P more

The notions of a big car and a coupe generally stand in opposition to each other. Coupes are personal, sculpted, sporty, intimate. Big cars are expansive, spacious, luxurious, accommodating. The Mercedes-Benz CL-class is one of the few cars that attempts to br more

It's one of those amazing roads you can't help but come back to: a rhythmic mix of fast and slow sections, first wide open and then tree-lined on both sides, mostly smooth but dotted with patchwork surfaces here and there, a mild yet steady climb from the bott more

We don't tend to think of the Germans as creative visionaries--they're far too logical for that. But every so often, Germans solve an engineering problem so creatively that it becomes art. more

There's a great scene toward the end of John Frankenheimer's epic movie, Grand Prix, where James Garner, as the troubled racing ace Pete Aron, drives slowly through the crowded paddock at Monza in his rental car before the season's final round. The fact that h more

There are two Bentley worlds--old money, embodied by the Arnage and the Azure; and arriviste, represented by the Continental GT family. While the classic rear-wheel-drive cars were conceived at the end of the steam age, the four-wheel-drive models were born so more

I, assistant editor Sam Smith, claim publicly that the Hyundai Accent SE is more fun than a Honda Fit! The Fit may have torque and sheer horsepower on the Hyundai, but the Honda's chassis falls flat under aggressive cornering--and ultimately fails to provide t more