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The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is the best-selling full-size luxury sedan by a wide margin, and the brand will not be ceding any ground. To ensure its domination, Mercedes is giving the S-Class a major rework to make it more stylish and high-tech than ever.

Code-named W223, the next S-Class will be less conservative and more elegant in design. When the current generation made its debut in the midst of the Great Recession, Mercedes had made the deliberate choice to go low-key. Now, the brand is making up for lost time with taut, elegant surfacing, better proportions thanks to a lengthened dash-to-axle ratio, and a more rakish C-pillar. Leading the design charge will be a new grille flanked by adaptive LED headlights with far more capability to bend light than U.S. regulations currently allow.

Inside, Mercedes will respond to the Tesla effect with a pair of massive screens, one horizontal in front of the driver (as in [...]

Note to self, provided that self owns a gleaming Ferrari and also has potentially disgruntled employees with access to 18-wheelers: Never piss off one of your truckers, especially if he or she has an axe to grind and several tons of machinery at their disposal. Take the experience of this trucking boss outside of Chicago to heart—the poor thing just had a semi truck park on top of their Ferrari GTC4Lusso.

According to Carscoops, here’s what went down via an unnamed source: A newly hired and “not deemed fit (or stable) for the job” truck driver—um, clearly—was let go after hauling only one load. After trying in earnest to keep his job, and despite the trucking company’s amicable attempts to part ways and fully compensate the man, the fired driver calmly asked the owner if the Ferrari was his car. The owner confirmed it was, to which the trucker added “now you’ll see what happens [...]

You love to spend the weekends in the country. You’re single and like to travel with your friends. You describe yourself as someone active; you like to go to the beach, the mountains or a lake house to unwind and recharge for the week to come. Perhaps you’re looking for a new car, too, but you’re unsure about what to get. Should you go for the looks and fuel economy of hatchbacks or the versatility and all-wheel drive traction that crossover SUVs offer?

Over the years, crossovers have become popular players in the industry. Their larger SUV-style bodies means more interior space, and the higher ride is more appealing than sedans or hatchbacks because you get both better visibility and better ground clearance for inclement weather. Although most of them are front-wheel-drive, a vast majority offer all-wheel drive, which allows you to have better traction when driving on snow, [...]

It’s been about 10 months since we got the keys to our 2019 Volvo S60, and we’ve spent some good moments with it. We’ve done a couple of cross-county trips—from Detroit to Los Angeles last summer and from Los Angeles to Houston and back in the winter—and it has proven to be a comfortable cruiser. After driving over 18,500 miles in the Volvo S60, we’ve had to visit the dealer three times, including a couple after the check engine light came on.

In late October, just as we passed 9,000 miles, we visited our local Volvo dealer when the check engine light came on. The code indicated there was a problem with the evaporator pipes, which had to be replaced. Thankfully the dealer had the parts on hand, and the S60 was ready after a few hours. The 10,000-mile service was also completed during this time, which saved us another visit.

Unfortunately, in late February [...]

Over the years we’ve featured some pretty remarkable widebody S2000 roadsters. May they be sleek street machines, squeaky-clean show-mobiles, turbocharged track terrors, or some combination of the three, the widebody Honda roadster is an impressive aftermarket magic trick. So when Mode Parfume invited us to come to Osaka and check out their 2008 AP2, a car that we’d only seen photos of from the Osaka Auto Messe show, I was quick to jump over to the mainland where I met with our fearless editorial leader, Sam Du, and photographer, David Ishikawa, for what would become known as the Super Street southern Japan shop tour blitz.

Mode Parfume and its parent company, Blow Design Co., Ltd, are housed in the shipyard district of Izumiotsu, sharp contrast to the humble rural setting we had found ourselves in earlier that day while visiting Toyota Corolla specialist Inazuma Worx. And whereas our first shop visit [...]