The conversion will cost $525,000, with a range of bespoke options available. Back in August, Gunther Werks wowed us with their handsome Porsche 993 400R conversion at The Quail in Monterey. Now, after nearly 10 months of testing and tuning, the company is ready to put their powerful Porsche project into a limited production run. Gunther Werks announced today…
It has almost 100 more horsepower than the newly launched M5 Competition. If for whatever reason you’re finding the BMW M5 Competition a bit on the soft side, this brutal MH5 700 is anything but that. Brought to you by the same tuners that built a crazy 888-hp X6 M not too long ago, the amped-up M5…
Take a classic Mercedes sedan; add the chassis from a Russian military truck; do hours of fabrication, and this is the wild result Vehicles like the Mercedes-Benz G-Class and Unimog models show that the German brand knows how to create a very capable off-roader, but a very talented fabricator in Russia is going one better by combining a 1990s W140 S500 luxury sedan and…
Another year with our SUV of the Year winner Being crowned Motor Trend’s 2018 SUV of the Year means that the fifth-generation Honda CR-V will be spending a year in our fleet. And we don’t mean the 2017 CR-V Touring AWD that visual assets manager Brian Vance has been chaperoning for the past 11 months. “My” CR-V is different….
Driving Ferrari’s incredibly quick 12-cylinder 812 Superfast Even Colin Chapman, famous for, among other things, his take on the old maxim, “less is more,” put turbos on the Lotus Esprit. Because sometimes more is more. No one who drove a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta would argue it needed more power, yet its successor, the Ferrari 812 Superfast, has just that….
Looks old but drives new. The casting of the Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen in 2015’s Jurassic World was appropriate for more reasons than just the vehicle’s ruggedness and suitability for shuttling Hollywood stars through mud. Introduced in 1979—and largely unchanged since—the G-wagen is a dinosaur. Fittingly, it appeared in the most fantastic installment yet of the sci-fi series, in which…
Performance over practicality. VIEW 75 PHOTOS Think of the Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo as the automotive equivalent of a Michael Bay film. Its luscious visuals, potent athleticism, and explosive performance provide cover for the reality that the body style doesn’t add much in the way of quantifiable substance to the Panamera model line. This is not to say,…
Lincoln’s redesigned flagship is comprehensively improved . . . and still bigger than Idaho. Overall Rating: Lincoln has been working hard for years to overcome its image as an automaker for the aged. This comprehensive redesign of its flagship, the Navigator, complete with a midcentury-modern exterior and a plush interior treatment, may have finally done the…
The hardest-core Wrangler JL gains a wee bit of refinement. What It Is: The latest-generation Jeep Wrangler, in its most trail-ready Rubicon trim. Jeepers will recognize this Wrangler by its JL code name, as opposed to its predecessor’s JK nomenclature. This is worth noting, since Jeep is selling the old model concurrently with the new one and…
Jaguar’s F-Pace and Land Rover’s Range Rover Velar tussle in this sibling rivalry. From the July 2018 issue It won’t surprise you to learn that we here at C/D regularly disagree with one another. It’s often about trivial matters such as how long a Geo Metro can run without oil in its crankcase (we’ll settle that argument…
