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The Audi RS 6 Avant has long been an object of desire for many automotive fans. The tricked-out powerwagon has been around for two decades in various flavors, and never made its way to the good old U.S.

It’s already close to impossible to afford a Bugatti Chiron, with its astronomical base price just South of $3 million, but now there’s a Bugatti valued at nearly $9 million. The Bugatti Centodieci, pronounced “chento-dee-echi,” is based on the Chiron, but its design is inspired by the Bugatti EB 110, a truly innovative supercar from the 1990s.

Lexus is showing off a very special, limited edition of its already gorgeous and powerful LC 500 luxury sports coupe. The Lexus LC 500 Inspiration Series is decked out in a color reminiscent of the classic British Racing Green, dubbed Nori Green.

As momentum continues to shift more and more towards SUVs here in North America, it seems as if every major automaker wants to flesh out its lineup with an SUV at every size class. Last year, Cadillac took care of the compact crossover market with the release of the XT4, and now it’s created a 3-Row model to serve as a bookend for the popular XT5.

The Jaguar F-TYPE is one of the most beautiful vehicles to be designed in the last decade. In fact, I love it so much that I bought one for myself a few years back. I’ve always wanted to visit the Jaguar factory to see how these cars are made, but haven’t been presented with the chance.

It was only a couple of weeks back that I got to spend sometime behind the wheel of the Kia Telluride, and I thought it was a very good vehicle indeed. Now that I’ve driven its Hyundai cousin, the Palisade, it’s clear the Koreans have a winning platform on their hands.

You might think that the Lexus GX is just another luxury grocery getter, but you’d be wrong. It’s actually a very capable off-roader, thanks in large part to being based on the same platform as Toyota’s rugged 4Runner, with its body-on-frame construction, two-speed transfer case, and locking rear diff.

When I received an invitation from Lexus to take a road trip down the Northern California coast to watch the 2019 U.S. Open, the golf geek in me was truly excited. But then came the icing on the cake – about halfway through the trip, I was going to spend a day at Laguna Seca – one of the nation’s greatest racing circuits; and I’d get to learn the course in Lexus’ most powerful and impressive performance cars, the GS F, the LC 500, and the RC F Track Edition.

Over the years, many automakers have taken aim at sport luxury brands BMW and Mercedes-Benz to see if they could knock one of these long-reigning champs off of their pedestal. Just as many have failed to do so.

De Tomaso was one of the great boutique automakers of the 1960s and 1970s, cranking out sleek and powerful wheeled objects of desire like the Pantera and Mangusta. The company went dormant for quite some time, and has changed hands along the way.

When first presented with the option of driving the Lexus LC 500 for a week, I damn near broke out in song. In recent years, Japanese luxury automaker Lexus has gone to great lengths in order to distance itself from the longstanding impression that it only makes boring automobiles.

With Americans crazy over SUVs and shunning station wagons, cool cars like the Mercedes-AMG CLA 35 Shooting Brake rarely make it stateside. The wagon uses a 301 hp 2.0-liter turbo-four paired with a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission and AMG Performance 4Matic AWD.

I recently had a chance to drive a 2019 BMW 850i convertible, and thought it was a very impressive ride indeed. It offered plenty of creature comforts inside, including a fancy crystal shift knob. But what really impressed me was just how fast and powerful it was for such a substantial car.

If there’s one car that I’m really, really excited to drive in the next year or so, it’s the Polestar 1. The first car headed to production from the offspring of Volvo’s performance division inherits some of that company’s exceptional design aesthetics, but it’s an entirely new creation otherwise.

Forget everything you know about BMW. Forget the iconic M3. Forget the bonkers M5 Competition. Forget the all-new 8-Series. The 2019 BMW M2 Competition is the best car BMW sells, full stop. The smallest and quickest BMW benefits from selecting from a massive parts bin of stuff.